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    Ronnie Shuker
    Ronnie Shuker
    Aug 29, 2014, 13:26

    Football, baseball, basketball and soccer may make more money than hockey, but none delivers more action than the world's greatest game.

    Football, baseball, basketball and soccer may make more money than hockey, but none delivers more action than the world's greatest game.

    Numbers prove hockey has the most action per game

    Sports are like sex: the more action the better. And hockey has the most per game of the five major team sports. Yes, even more than soccer, according to

    FIFA. At the 2014 World Cup, the average amount of time the ball was in play was only 57.6 minutes, under two-thirds the length of a game. (Discuss among yourselves how much of that actually constitutes “action.”)

    Meanwhile, an NHL game lasts at least a full 60 minutes, and all of it is action. So among the big five, soccer slides in at No. 2 in actual action time, then comes the NBA, at more than three-quarters of an hour, while the

    NFL and

    MLB are mere minute-men, with fewer than 20 minutes of action per game.

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