Things Nerds Can Appreciate about Football’s Game Design
The thing I personally despise about football is that it is basically &quot;made for TV&quot;.  The constant stoppages for commercials make it terrible.  I watched a rugby match the day before an away game and it was just so much more exciting because it didn&#x27;t stop every ten seconds.  Football just stops like every ten seconds, if it had a little faster tempo it would be more exciting, and it feels like the reason it&#x27;s not is so they can cram in more commercials.<p>&gt; Stadiums and Cities Matter - Even the stadium and climate in a city factor into a football team’s strategy.<p>The air force academy is a fair bit higher than Denver or even Colorado Springs itself (the cadet area is 7258 feet above sea level).  I&#x27;d have to check but it&#x27;s probably one of the highest stadium altitudes for any college.<p>Physical exertion at those altitudes is significantly more difficult if you&#x27;re not acclimated to the altitude, ideally living up there but the first week can be tough if you aren&#x27;t extremely cardio-fit.  So Air Force had a built of an inbuilt home-field advantage, and when they went down to lower altitudes we had a bit of an advantage there too (living at altitude and coming back to sea level was wild, I could rock aerobic activity at sea level, you just didn&#x27;t get out of breath much at all).<p>The crowd would heckle the away team in the gates, chanting:  &quot;the air is <i>rare</i>!&quot;<p>Didn&#x27;t stop us from sucking though, the football team was terrible.