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As a professional-sports-phobic geek, I realized that my experience watching sports is similar to how some indie-RPG designers and theorists have been describing traditional RPGs: "20 minutes of fun in 4 hours". There were a couple exciting bits to the football game, and lots of in-between time getting to those moments. As with far too many traditional RPGs, most of the fun of "watching the game" had little to nothing to do with actually being involved in the game. Baseball's even worse for that sort of thing; as was pointed out last night, at least in football there is an actual tactical game going on. Being interested in tactical games as I am, I could even learn to appreciate football, but not if I have to sit through all the boring back-and-forth bits and timeouts and commercial breaks. Now if they added wizards or laser rifles to football...