Correction for the length of an American football game
Thanks for your input! Let us know more about what's wrong in the form below.
How long is 3 seconds?
It's about one-one-thousandth as long as an American football game
The length of an American football game is about 3,600 seconds.
(per NFL rules; playing time only)
Per National Football League Rules, an American football game consists of four periods of 900 seconds each for a total of 3,600 seconds. The total duration of a football game can often be more than three hours, including stoppages of play, the intermission at halftime, team timeouts, and, in televised games, commercial timeouts. The Super Bowl — the highest-profile game of the sport — aired 45 minutes and 10 seconds of commercials in 2009.