Today I Found Out

10 Minute NFL Games... and 6 other Sports Facts (2015x71)

Air date: Jul 11, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/→→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Sapiosexuals... and 8 other language facts http://bit.ly/1Vrwe3T The Rockstar with a PhD... and 8 other Facinating Facts http://bit.ly/1gN5yKW Find more interesting quick facts here: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/category/quick-facts/ In this video: 1. “Soccer” was once a popular name for Football in Britain in the sport’s earliest days. When the rules for the sport were first being defined, it was named “Association Football” to distinguish it from the other forms of football commonly played. Within a year of its inception, this got slurred down to “Assoccer,” after the common practice of adding “-er” to nicknames at the time in Britain. Very shortly after this, “Assoccer” became “Soccer,” which remained a semi-popular nickname for the sport in Britain until about a half century ago, along with just “Football.” The game initially spread throughout the world primarily known as “Football.” However, in countries where other forms of football (games played on foot rather than on horseback) already were dominate, the nickname “Soccer” was, and in some cases still is, the preferred name for this reason. (QF 761) 2. According to a recent Wall Street Journal study, the average NFL game features only 10 minutes and 43 seconds of action. The rest of the time is spent with commercials, replays and commentary. This makes it possibly the most profitable 10-11 minutes of entertainment in the history of sports, particularly if you include the countless hours spent on sports talk radio and TV shows that continue to talk about the games and teams even in the off-season, all the while generating advertising reve