[ZenGum]

I watched a little American Football on TV last night.

It pretty much confirmed my existing opinion that the actual action bits are pretty good, but there are far too many breaks in play. In Rugby Union, once the player with the ball is tackled, play does not stop, but rather the tackling player must release and roll away, and the ball-carrier must immediately play the ball (generally by releasing it on the ground behind him - whichever team gets numbers there first gets to pick it up).
After all the stop-start of American Football, I was staggered to see that the coach can call time-outs! WTF? Isn't this game slow enough already?
And then my jaw really dropped when one team was penalised for "delaying the game". That made me laugh.