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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 2795749, member: 1026"] Touche' but there is some merit for a finite ending. In the old days I was good for as many baseball extra innings as there could be, but on a weeknight these days very limited and even weekend I don't think I'd last past 11 frames. Playoff game in for the duration, but otherwise no. Sports that have finite 2hr windows are gaining traction & while I know it remains popular, again other than playoffs I never spend 3.5 full hours wathing a football game (DVR). P.S. DVR is one of the reasons basketball might try this and why its becoming a bigger problem. A. those watching purely taped games FF over commercials, no value in those late game commercial blitzkriegs B. Those like myself that start games say 30 minutes into it ARE EVEN more frustrated with the last 3-4 minutes than ever before. You can watch an entire game commercial free by starting 20-30 mins late, but its almost impossible to DVR thru the end of game death march. C. With Elam ending you never miss the end of the game when you DVR The purpose is not to eliminate overtime, that's a consequence that we are debating the value of losing. However, to lament losing 5 extra minutes of game time and the 15 minutes that takes when you are actually quickening games in general and keeping more folks in their seats until the final bucket is missing the point of the entire creative concept. This would take what too often takes 20+ minutes and make it consistently less than 10 minutes. And you'd have fewer people leaving early so you can spend less energy being frustrated with em' ;) [/QUOTE]

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