@AaronMk
American Football: make the clock stop after every play, and keep it stopped until the next snap.The average NFL game has 11 minutes of live-ball action spread across 3 hours. Requiring a full 60 minutes of live-ball action would make the game 16 or 17 hours long. You’d have to do it like a two-day cricket match: one day for each half, lunch breaks after the first and third quarter. And God help you if you need overtime.
Reminds me of an episode during the Hundred Years War known as the Battle of the Thirty, which was an organized battle between two feuding nobles aligned with the French and English court respectively. To settle a dispute they agreed to an organized battle at a pre-selected location with set rules and only a limited number of knights (like, 15 on each side).
It was so well organized in its limited scale that it turned into a local spectator event and people from all the villages in the area came to the one oak tree set as the location of the battle and it became a Knights Tale tier spectator blood sport in its corner of North Western France.
It lasted all day, with an hour long lunch and general cleaning of the contestants because you know they are totally pissing and shitting themselves in that armor
