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Filed under: Little Words Tagged: football, Jonathan Taylor, NFL, soccer, Wall Street Journal, World Cup
Jonathan Taylor writes:
I skipped the usual World Cup back-and-forth over American distaste for soccer, but for those who like to point to soccer's scoreless ties and whatnot: According to the Wall Street Journal, the average NFL game has an average of 11 minutes of play (compared with 67 minutes of "players standing around").
(via Felix Salmon's Counterparties)
