It is truly wild what we allow ourselves to be subjected to in terms of ads.

It feels like different sports have different expectations around ads.

In soccer, a three-minute break in a half is sacrilege, because it breaks up the flow of the game, and may be the foot in the door for more breaks later.

In most US sports, having the team sponsor’s name be the biggest thing on the jersey would be sacrilege. Remember how much outrage having tiny ad patches on uniforms caused?

It is a really nice thing about soccer. I’ve honestly been enjoying the World Cup so far

That’s the biggest thing as a non US person. Seeing how many ads you have in your sports is crazy. And a bad influence on the rest of the worlds sporting organisations

yeah the reason they are such a big deal in the world cup is because before this (and technically still during this on telemundo) the only time you would get ads is during the halftime break.

How else will you get thirsty for another hydration break after the 7th pick?

Sponsored by McDonalds, Lays, and Salt Inc.

Brought to you by Snyders

The pretzels will make you thirsty

Day 9 of waiting for Zlatan to scorpion kick Alexi Lalas in the face

How many timeouts will we get tonight

Let’s not get crazy. NBA draft viewership isn’t good enough to get those crazy bags.

NHL is just as bad at this as well on national games. 8:30 faceoff? Naw, it’ll be 8:50 (maybe).

On a marginally related note; some universities in Sweden use an “academic quarter”, meaning if something is scheduled to start at “10” it actually starts at 10:15. However, if the something starts at “10:00” it starts at 10:00.

Apparently the tradition dates to before pocket watches became common. Church bells might have been the most accessible time keeping device, hence needing some extra time to get to the lecture when the bells rang.

NHL too

NHL is just as bad

College football is fine in the regular season but does this during the playoffs

Never seen an MLS game, huh? Or NHL. Either or.

I remember the first time I went to an MLB game. They sing the national anthem, the players walk to their positions, and by the time you look back to home plate they’ve already thrown two pitches.

College football is horrible at this they will gladly start a 7:30 PT game at 8:30 and of course that shits gonna be 4 hours too

Not entirely true. ESPN will always delay games to get early commercials in. So if they have an NFL game it’s the same shit.

And tip off for the nba is always (and I mean always) the same time after the broadcast starts. Every single time.

There’s a god damned countdown to tip off in every arena. You can watch it. NBC and Amazon started showing it. Completely made up narrative.

Silver’s been commissioner for over a decade now, at a certain point you own it

Also, fans think he makes all these decisions and is some sort of dictator or something.

He has authority but if you want to be mad at anyone it’s the owners. He answers to them.

Plus most of the start time stuff is dictated by the media partners who broadcast the games.

It’s amazing how almost all of it was Stern bullshit, but Adam gets blamed because people have this extremely false view of David Stern as not being a massive prick

So why can’t Adam grow a spine? It’s all jelly back there I hear.

If only there was some way for Adam Silver to introduce change.

Does he not have the ability to change this shit instantaneously lol

“David Stern once head butted Ray Kroc for even proposing a McDonald’s ad that would delay the start of the draft by 5 minutes”

No, the NFL never does it, they have regulated amounts if ads as well.

College football is especially screwed with ABC/ESPN having SEC games thar start late and never end

I could set my watch to NFL start times. Red zone gets 8 games starting on screen at the same time at 1pm Sunday.

Which is really ass for me bc I have to leave for work exactly 2,5 hours after tip off.

So I had to call out the entire 1,5 weeks of finals

NBA Draft. I guarantee players will be drafted, don’t worry.

The NBA draft.

Not the NBA Draft, First Picks at 7. Lol

They gotta talk and prep first.

Sometimes I wonder how people like yourself have made it far enough in life to even be writing words down.

i think the idea is to allow casual viewers to not be locked in at the start time but what do i know

that’s pregame that will be in the 6:30-7 slot, in this example

Doing that at 6.45 to 7 is even more stupid.