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Message: [QUOTE="Pyle, post: 3243686, member: 137"] College games are excruciatingly long because they stop the clock for 1st downs. That is asinine. I don't mind the length of NFL games at all. What's the difference if you spend 3 hours watching your team on Sunday or 4 hours combined watching a couple of BB games during the week? The 4.5 hour marathon dome melters that I've been to in the past couple of years definitely need adjustment but a running clock in football is crap, it takes too long to reset after a play and defenders are known for finding ways to delay the other team getting back to the huddle. This isn't a rugby match. How much time is going to run off the clock waiting for guys on the edge to get back for the next play? A team that is down in the final minutes will have WRs trying to sprint back down the field to get the next play off and won't have the gas to actually get open at that point. The XFL is going to end up a 3 yards and cloud of dust league because of it. [/QUOTE]