Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 29, 2018

They need all those breaks for ads.

Okay, give! What sport would it be?

Im guessing American Football …

Wait, wait, wait. Does the clock run only when we run?

Imagine Formula 1 or Indycar drivers all stopping every few laps, leaping out of the cars getting into a huddle. Discussing pit tactics and passing moves, jumping back in the cars and then continuing the race. Maybe not, a bit too much Wacky Races.

It could also be Orienteering. More popular in Europe but thē meets here in the US.

Golf. Hit it, go find it, look at it, look at it some more, hit it again, repeat.

So I guess we ALL don’t know EXACTLY which sport that is.

Looked like the beginning of a math-word question!

Baseball- Hit ball. run 90 ft. wait 30-40 seconds for next pitch.Basketball- Score basket, run downcourt. wait 10 seconds while pointguard dribbles.Hockey- Shoot the puck.

In Cross Country, there isn’t another Cross Country team trying to stop you from running.

Football plays are usually 4-10 seconds long.

Of course Jef would hate on anything the average Murcan would enjoy.

I can watch any pro sport for just about that length of time before I go to sleep. Always guarantees me a dreamless nap.

There are a lot of great sports and every one is a “pass-time”. They are not practical, neither is theater, art, movies, novels… The fact is that we all find our own entertainment. We shouldn’t have to put down other’s to feel good about our own.

Yes! An entertaining one!

One of the benefits of living single for 7 years – no TV! But my treasure of a boyfriend is worth it, even if I have to put up with football on the weekend in our tiny home.

The difference is there isn’t a couple thousand pounds of opponents trying to STOP you from running those next 15 seconds.

https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/…in 3 hours

Hard to fault the rest of the world for loving soccer which moves so much quicker than baseball or football.

American football is chess— soccer is checkers. Yes, checkers is a perfectly nice game, and you have to be raised on football to understand the difference, but when you do, soccer is a dumb person’s game.

An entirely different sport? No, it would still be cross country, only many fewer people would show up to watch it — 5-6, say, instead of the couple dozen a match regularly attracts these days.

RUGBY! All the contact and none of the downtime. I go to watch the game. My wife goes to watch the players.

And yet hardly anyone cares about cross country – go figure! Also, try getting pancaked by a 250-pound linebacker who runs a 4.5 40-yard dash, and see how long it takes you to be ready for the next play! It’s funny how the people who clearly have no respect for American football can’t stop talking about it, even if it’s thinly disguised. Give it a rest. In America, football is king, like it or not.

And so Mallet continues his crusade against all hobbies that aren’t his own. I don’t even like football and it’s getting tiresome.

Actually, I feel they should call American football “violent chess”!

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In baseball, nothing happens until the catcher sends the pitcher a sign for a suggested pitch they can both agree on. In American football, nothing happens until both teams huddle up and decide what they’re going to do for the next short-lived sequence of events. These are America’s two favorite sports. You’d think, going by that, that we as a country would have a little stronger a reputation for planning and thinking things through in advance. That’s all I’m wondering about at the moment.

American Run Ball with take downs.

So cross country is torturing yourself and always doing things the hardest way?