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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | The {{w|Super Bowl}} is the annual championship game of the | + | The {{w|Super Bowl}} is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional {{w|American football}}. In late January or early February each year, the winner of the American Football Conference (AFC) plays the winner of the National Football Conference (NFC) to determine the champion. In {{w|Super Bowl LII}} held on Sunday, February 4, (the day before this comic's release), the NFC champion {{w|Philadelphia Eagles}} defeated the AFC champion {{w|New England Patriots}}. Based on its wide-reaching cultural impact, Super Bowl is, in the United States, widely considered the single most important game of the year (of any sport{{Citation needed}}), and over a hundred million people (across the world) watch it, many of whom are not even fans of American football. |
− | Many people have parties centered on watching the game. The full game lasts around four hours, including breaks for | + | Many people have parties centered on watching the game. The full game lasts around four hours, including breaks for advertisement and a halftime, which includes a live performance of music. |
− | [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] (on the couch) have such a Super Bowl Watch Party going with their friends (hence the title) | + | [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] (on the couch) have such a Super Bowl Watch Party going with their friends (hence the title). But it is a year long party! The normal TV is broadcast at 30 frames per second and takes four hours. But by slowing the video down by a factor of 2300, the show would last a full year. (Actually it would last 33.120.000 seconds which is 383 days, 18 days more than a year. To make it last a year, minus 4 hours, it should be slowed down a factor 2189). Each frame would be shown for about 76.7 seconds. Each frame can then be discussed and analyzed by the watchers. Each day in the slow video would cover just under 40 seconds of real time. So when the Megan-like woman walks in to rejoin the party (who have been watching it frame by frame all night) Cueball is quickly able to describe the about 20 seconds of real time they have watched. his description refers to the offense taking the field after the initial kickoff was returned to the 26 yard line. |
− | + | [[Megan]] proclaims that she would bet that the next frame will be a cut. A ''cut'' means a change in camera angle. Cuts happen frequently during the broadcast, especially when the ball is not in play, often there will be a short moment of black screen, but this could potentially last a few minutes for this party. Megan thus has a relatively high probability (albeit still incredibly low, with cuts being less than one in every 1000 frames) of being right simply by chance that the next frame will be a cut, and has apparently been predicting it often as the Cueball-like guy on the floor states. She may still have to be correct yet... | |
− | [[Ponytail]] asks if they think the first | + | [[Ponytail]] asks if they think the first add block will come out before the of February, about 20 days after the start of the Super Bowl show. The ads and halftime show are considered integral parts of the broadcast, and many advertisers debut elaborate commercials especially for this game, since so many people watch it. Many people claim to watch the Super Bowl only for the commercial breaks, as mentioned in [[60: Super Bowl]]. The end of February would correspond to about 14 minutes of real time, a realistic time span before the first break. Obviously [[Ponytail]] looks forward to those, and can't wait... |
− | The title text refers to how, during a commercial break during the 2018 Super Bowl, | + | The title text refers to how, during a commercial break during the 2018 Super Bowl, just blackness was broadcast for 28 seconds. <ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2018/02/04/super-bowl-nbc-equipment-failure-blank-screen-super-bowl-commercial/305623002/</ref> At the rate they watch it would last almost 18 hours as described (17 hours 53 minutes). |
− | + | It would be highly impractical to be watching TV continuously for 52 weeks in a row (or in case Cueball and friends had watched all the games like this 52 years in a row by the end of this party). | |
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+ | [[Randall]] has in previous comics regarding the Super Bowl, explained that he now watches the Super Bowl ([[1480: Super Bowl]]), despite not being very interested in Superbowl ([[60: Super Bowl]]) or any other sport ([[1107: Sports Cheat Sheet]]). A slowly updating video is similar to the concept behind [[1190: Time]], and is also reminiscent of Douglas Gordon's 1993 art installation {{w|24 Hour Psycho}}. Also, {{w|As Slow as Possible}} is an organ piece that is currently played in a German church - it will end in 2640, after 639 years of continuous playing. | ||
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[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | ||
[[Category:American football]] | [[Category:American football]] | ||
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