{"id":1354,"date":"2010-01-20T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/of-football-and-efficiency.html"},"modified":"2010-02-07T00:34:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:34:55","slug":"of-football-and-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/of-football-and-efficiency.html","title":{"rendered":"Of Football and Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" com=\"\" article=\"\" mod=\"rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular&quot;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 262px;\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-FG885_Footba_DV_20100115010106.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Wall Street Journal recently studied broadcast football (ostensibly because the economy is just too complicated) and came away with the staggering statistic that the average 2 hour and 54 minute game on TV <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular\">contains just 11 minutes<\/a> of actual football playing.  This blistering level of excitement is bracketed by 17 minutes of replays, 3 seconds of cheerleaders, and about an hour of beer and truck commercials.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news for weekend couch potatoes is that capturing the games on DVR should allow them to watch a full slate of Sunday football coverage in about an hour.  This leaves ample time to pay attention to your kids and work on the Honey-do list, while alloting scant time to guzzle beer and munch chips.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if we could achieve those levels of efficiency elsewhere?  What if other things you did only required you to put in 6.3% of the time allocated?  I could mow my lawn in just under 4 minutes.  The workday could be knocked off in just over half an hour.  You could even get a Bachelor&#8217;s Degree in about 3 months.  Of course sex would only last 28 seconds, so I suppose there&#8217;s a downside to all the efficiency as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal recently studied broadcast football (ostensibly because the economy is just too complicated) and came away with<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/01\/of-football-and-efficiency.html\" title=\"Read Of Football and Efficiency\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun","category-xx-xy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}