Clock Basketball Football

Clock Basketball Football

Why are there different rules between the USA's NFL, and college football? Time management, especially...?

It seems to me that there are no differences in the rules of other sports, between collegiate and professional sports; i.e. baseball, hockey, basketball...

But in the NFL, it requires two feet to be inbounds, on a sidelines pass, the clock is run differently, with respect to downs and kickoffs, punts...

Anyone on this site an NFL referree, and can explain these differences?

Yeah, there are differences in the rules between college football and the National Football League, especially in how game time is managed.

A rule change this year in the college game, starting the gameclock when the ball is placed in position on the line of scrimmage is getting lots of complaints from all sides, with alot of teams getting surprised, looking up and seeing the clock running, when it wasn't last year.
It is intended to quicken the game, since now, "official reviews" of the accuracy of previous plays often takes up time, but never, never game-time.
It's riduculous, if you ask me, for this rule change.
And as for differences in the game rules which seem to benefit Professional players, hey--it is only because now they are just older, slower, and puffing Oxygen more!

Plus, did you ever realize that everyone of those guys on the field, each Sunday, is a Millionaire? DIFFERENT Rules for the rich, that's what it is, since they can't have rules which might make them lose $$$...!

Dat's all, man, that it is. Different rulz for the old rich farts.
(and now a word from our sponser....)

Why is basketball so slow?

Of all the clock sports basketball is the shortest game time (48 minutes vs 60) yet still takes as long to play as football at over 3hrs and longer than hockey which normally only lasts about 2 and 1/2 hours. Why does your sport take 3.75 minutes of real time to play 1 minute of game time?
Football and hockey both have TV timeouts and stop the clock for penalties, scoring, offsides, icing, out of bounds, ends of Periods/Quarters.

Because they call way too many fouls, which stop the clock every time. It's very annoying.

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