SimonG wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:55 am
Whilst agreeing with that iBozz wasn't it the clubs that drove extending half-time to fifteen minutes to allow them to sell more food and drink?
Fifteen minutes at halftime is better than playing four quarters purely for financial reasons. I'm pretty sure that fifteen minutes is better for the players in today's game as well and it is only an extra few minutes which is barely noticeable.
I don't mind half time (especially as a Gentleman of a certain age!) but I'd be against quarter time.
Speaking from the theatre world, intervals are traditionally twenty minutes and that generally isn't long enough to get everyone to the loo and back, let alone to buy food and drink, especially with a full house. I don't know the balance of income and profit in sports stadia, but in theatres we make our money on what we can sell to the Patrons before, during and after the show, not off ticket sales as the vast majority of that goes to the touring company.
Incidentally, don't blame the theatre for the ticket prices, in Receiving Houses they are nearly always set by the touring company and not the theatre.
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