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On the 4th of February, there was a Gridiron Football match between the winners of the two professional leagues in America, called the "Super Bowl". It is considered to be the most important game of the year, and many people watch it. Some have parties centred around watching the match. The full game lasts for several hours, including breaks in which there are live performances of music and ads are broadcast on T.V.
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On the 4th of February, there was a Gridiron Football match between the winners of the two professional leagues in America. Called the "Super Bowl", it is considered to be the most important game of the year, and many people watch it. Some have parties centred around watching the match. The full game lasts for several hours, including breaks in which there are live performances of music and ads are broadcast on T.V.
  
By slowing the video down by a factor of 2300, the show would last a full year. Normal TV is broadcast at 30 frames per second. So a if slowed by a factor of 2300 each frame would be shown for about 76 seconds Each frame can be discussed and analysed by the watchers. Each day in the slow video would cover just under 40 seconds of real time. So when Megan comes down to rejoin the party (who have been watching all night) they can describe about 20 seconds of real time. The description refers to the offense taking the field after the initial kickoff was returned to the 26 yard line.
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By slowing the video down by a factor of 2300, the show would last a full year. Normal TV is broadcast at 30 frames per second. So if slowed by a factor of 2300 each frame would be shown for about 76 seconds Each frame can be discussed and analysed by the watchers. Each day in the slow video would cover just under 40 seconds of real time. So when Megan comes down to rejoin the party (who have been watching all night) they can describe about 20 seconds of real time. The description refers to the offense taking the field after the initial kickoff was returned to the 26 yard line.
  
 
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>
 
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>

Revision as of 18:30, 5 February 2018

Super Bowl Watch Party
It's going to be weird near the end of May when the screen goes blank for over 18 hours.
Title text: It's going to be weird near the end of May when the screen goes blank for over 18 hours.

Explanation

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On the 4th of February, there was a Gridiron Football match between the winners of the two professional leagues in America. Called the "Super Bowl", it is considered to be the most important game of the year, and many people watch it. Some have parties centred around watching the match. The full game lasts for several hours, including breaks in which there are live performances of music and ads are broadcast on T.V.

By slowing the video down by a factor of 2300, the show would last a full year. Normal TV is broadcast at 30 frames per second. So if slowed by a factor of 2300 each frame would be shown for about 76 seconds Each frame can be discussed and analysed by the watchers. Each day in the slow video would cover just under 40 seconds of real time. So when Megan comes down to rejoin the party (who have been watching all night) they can describe about 20 seconds of real time. The description refers to the offense taking the field after the initial kickoff was returned to the 26 yard line.

The title text refers to how, during a commercial break during the 2018 Super Bowl, just blackness was broadcast for 28 seconds. [1]


A slowly updating video is similar to the concept behind Time.

Transcript

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[Megan walks into a room. Cueball and another Megan-like individual are sitting on a couch. Another Cueball sits in front of them, while Ponytail lies on the ground in front of a TV.]
Megan: Morning. How's the game?
Cueball: Eagles got to the 26-yard line around midnight. They've been walking across the field since then. Just entered a huddle.
Megan #2: I bet the next frame will be a cut.
Cueball #2: You always say that.
Ponytail: Do you think the first ads will come by the end of February?
[Caption below the comic:]
I'm at a year-round Super Bowl watch party. We're playing the stream at 1/2300x speed, so it will end just as next year's Super Bowl starts.


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Discussion

Which one is Megan? The description refers to Megan coming in but also Megan predicting the cut, but the comic clearly shows two different people.L 172.68.58.17 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

There is not way of telling who is who as Megan is not a name used for the generic woman with long black hair used by Randall. But in the context of this explanation side, then Cueball and Megan are together so the pair on the couch are Cueball and Megan for the comic explanations sake. The Woman walking in doesn't have long enough hair to be Danish and also Black Hat is missing, so this in another of the very few cases with more than one Megan (see her page, there are now five as opposed to the more than 170 comics with Multiple Cueballs). I have corrected the transcript to make this distinction. The Guy on the floor is the Multiple Cueball ;-) --Kynde (talk) 10:10, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

soooo 17776 but on the viewer’s end 172.68.142.41 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)


Now I want to see this! Could someone set up an Internet livestream? (For some definitions of “live” anyway) ;) PotatoGod (talk) 22:25, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Working on it ;)
EDIT: Done, check it out! https://yearlongsuperbowl.com/ Okofish (talk) 00:10, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
Love it!! 162.158.114.82 08:41, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
This is an excellent addition to my tab collection, thankyou, enjoying this far more than I should... 108.162.249.4 04:01, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

What gluttons for punishment. Professional sports games with all that commentary, colour, etc. is long as it is. 108.162.216.220 06:19, 6 February 2018 (UTC) Gene [email protected]

29.97 fps is only normal in the Americas; most of the rest of the world uses 25 fps. --141.101.98.124 10:42, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

I am a Singaporean here and is there anyway that I can watch the matches through a legal website? I want to get into the fad of the season.Boeing-787lover 15:08, 6 February 2018 (UTC) -- Xkcdreader52 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

For future reference, here is an article on how and when you could have watched the 2018 SuperBowl live in Singapore: Where to Watch the Super Bowl in Singapore (cached) These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 00:52, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

The bit about four hours, and by extension, his math being wrong is... Wrong. Games last that on average. A slowdown by a factor of 2300 would suggest the game lasted just over 3 hours, 48 minutes and 31 seconds. Assuming 525600 minutes in a year. 172.69.22.50 06:34, 7 February 2018 (UTC)lordloki