An article on Yahoo Sports talks about how television networks control the pace of games. After the Monday Night Football game between the Jaguars and the Titans, a reporter asked Titans Coach, Jeff Fisher, why he kept trying to move the ball down the field during the final minutes of the game even though the game was already decided in their favor. Coach Fisher's excuse was that the other coach called a couple of timeouts which meant he couldn't call for a kneel down. This is where Fisher told reporters that one of the referees had asked him to take a timeout because they needed a couple of commercial breaks but he refused to take any. Coach Fisher then assumed that this was the reason for why the Jaguars called two timeouts near the end of the game. The situation that occured on the field shows the influence of the media in sports. Every sport has certain times during a game where they have to take television timeouts. Timeouts in games come from coaches because of strategic reasons and because some of them are mandated by the networks. Television networks need timeouts because they gain revenues through ads. As a sports fan, I get annoyed with the media timeouts because it interrups the flow of the game. TV timeouts also make games last longer even if they are blowouts such as the football game that the article was talking about. There was no need for timeouts during 30-3 game with less than two minutes to go. I am the only one who is bothered by network timeouts?
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These are based on contracts that are between the organizations and sponsors. yes it is a good argument to say it disrupts the flow of the game but they are presenting it to us so there will be strings attached. These games would not be able to be watched if it weren't for those sponsors anyways. im not necessarily supporting the system but saying it is the structure they are just following.
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