An astrophysicist and an economist get together and make a new calendar that will have dates fall on the same day year after year. They’re shooting for 2017 for worldwide adoption.
The calendar would accomplish this by means of a 364-day year — augmented every five or six years with an extra week tacked on at the end.
Yeah, that makes it so much cleaner. Good luck with that.
In mid-January, the Wall Street Journal analyzed the actual amount of play time of the average football game. They added up the amount of time the ball was actually alive and in play in four different games, and it averaged out to about 11 minutes. They concluded that the average game broadcast on TV shows 17 minutes of replays and 67 minutes of players standing around. With the biggest game of the year coming up, I decided to do my own analysis of the actual play time. Here are the results:
It’s taunting, and mocking, and generally just having a good time at my expense. Case in point:
Why don’t they match? Why?!
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