The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 11, 2025

Are we watching sports or a movie about sports? That’s how long these things last.

They can probably get that done in an hour.

2 minutes is about all I can stomach these days on sports. I just check the late sports roundup about who whined and cried about bad umps or refs.

Basketball seems to have a two month season and ten months of playoffs.

Because they could not sell many $8 beers

And they do this even if one team is up 20 points.

I USED to watch Storage Wars ( I know horrid and fake) but the broadcaster found they could drop a ton of commercials anytime a bidder faked surprise on a planted item

I lost my passion for basketball when they brought politics to the court.

I hate those do or die games.

The final two minutes of Basketball or American Football gives you plenty of time for a shower before the game is over!

If they didn’t broadcast the whole boring game, they’d lose out on millions of dollars of advertising.Then we wouldn’t know what brand of sneakers, what insurance company, what sports drink, what light beer, what gambling site to use / or buy.

That might get me to watch basketball. Not a fan.

Wilberforce has a good point and Brutus‘s expression looks like he doesn’t disagree with his son. It seems that the first 46 minutes of an NBA game or just back-and-forth and only the last two minutes matter. And those do take about 20 minutes or so. Of course, if you’re watching the Cleveland Cavaliers, you would miss a lot of exciting action and amazing athletic prowess in those first 46 minutes!

I’ve wondered that MANY times – then I quit watching altogether

Don’t venture into sports commentary if you don’t understand the sport.

Because that would make sense. It’s the same with the last five minutes in football.

with 2 minute games, you could wrap the season up in a week…

Revenue is the purpose of the game.

Oy! That would make too much sense, methinks!

then they wouldn’t make a day out of it. :J

I seem to recall velodrome bicycle races were like that. If it was a five lap race they rode slowly for four laps, then an insane sprint for the last lap.

Football – eleven minutes of play stretched into three hours of commercials

That seems more like a non sports wife question that Gladys would have asked. Simple answer, us guys like to have some undisturbed sports time where no ine bothers us because they all know that you don’t disturb your sports appreciative spouse during his/her sports time with the tv. It’s part of the marriage/partnership contract that we all enter into. It’s an excuse to have our alone time with our friends Mr Food and Mr Beer Mr Soft drink as the case might be……

From the mouths of babes.

Wilbur shoots. He scores.

I have to agree with Wilburforce.

The most strategic move in pro and college bb both is to have the money to sign the best player available to you, including any players already obligated who may be enticed by the amount you are able to offer them.

Ah yes, the minds of a child…………..they stump Brutus!

The only sports I watch have wheels, two or four.

That’s what I’ve always said Wilberforce!

Basketball is a great game to play (especially for the exercise), but a boring game to watch until the last few seconds of the game. I attended one professional basketball game in my life, the 76er’s with Julius Erving, Bobby Jones, Maurice Cheeks, Darryl Dawkins, etc. They were free tickets from my boss right behind one of the baskets on the floor.

Oh how I used to hate those final “two minutes” of Sunday night football that would go on for an hour and push 60 Minutes (which was even worse!) into totally pre-empting All In The Family.

My wife’s uncle has a saying when it’s holiday time. He says, “Dinner will be ready in ‘5 Football Minutes’.” We know he means about 10-15 minutes.