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There is an average of only 11 minutes of football action in a typical 3-hour NFL broadcast.<ref name="WSJ">http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406</ref>  Commercials, usually for beer or fantasy football, consume a third of the broadcast.  Cheerleaders are rarely, if ever, shown in most NFL broadcasts anymore, while injured players are shown more than celebrating players.<ref name="WSJ"/>

There is an average of only 11 minutes of football action in a typical 3-hour NFL broadcast.<ref name="WSJ">http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406</ref>  Commercials, usually for beer or fantasy football, consume a third of the broadcast.  Cheerleaders are rarely, if ever, shown in most NFL broadcasts anymore, while injured players are shown more than celebrating players.<ref name="WSJ"/>

NFL broadcasts are increasingly promoting [[gambling]] in the form of "[[fantasy football]]," which has grown from only 12 million participants a decade ago to an estimated 56 million, mostly men, today. All but 4 NFL teams have deals with fantasy football.  In addition, the NFL advances the [[homosexual agenda]], such as with its halftime shows at the [[Super Bowl]].  Gambling on the Super Bowl topped $4.7 billion (not million) in 2018.<ref>http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2018/01/30/super-bowl-betting-total-to-top-4-7b-with-97-bet-illegally.html</ref>  Timothy McVeigh lost his savings [[gambling]] on his hometown Buffalo team in the 1993 [[Super Bowl]], and in his despair turned his obsession to the [[Branch Davidians|Branch Davidian]] standoff, according to ''Politico.com''.<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/02/how-football-fed-timothy-mcveighs-despair-219625</ref>

NFL broadcasts are increasingly promoting [[gambling]] in the form of "[[fantasy football]]," which has grown from only 12 million participants a decade ago to an estimated 56 million, mostly men, today. All but 4 NFL teams have deals with fantasy football.  In addition, the NFL advances the [[homosexual agenda]], such as with its halftime shows at the [[Super Bowl]].  Gambling on the Super Bowl topped $4.7 billion (not million) in 2018.<ref>http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2018/01/30/super-bowl-betting-total-to-top-4-7b-with-97-bet-illegally.html</ref>  Timothy McVeigh lost his life savings by [[gambling]] on his hometown Buffalo team in the 1993 [[Super Bowl]], and in his despair turned his obsession to the [[Branch Davidians|Branch Davidian]] standoff, according to ''Politico.com''.<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/02/how-football-fed-timothy-mcveighs-despair-219625</ref>

'''''If the NFL does not want [[Christians]] who quote the [[Bible]], then Christians should not want the NFL'''''.  There are many alternatives for sports fans, including high school and college football, golf, NASCAR, wrestling, baseball, basketball and, outside the [[U.S.]], [[soccer]], [[tennis]], [[rugby]], [[ice hockey]] and cricket.  There is also the option of spending less time watching televised sports, and spending that time more productively instead such as reading or studying mathematics, science, literature, religion, foreign languages, and/or history.

'''''If the NFL does not want [[Christians]] who quote the [[Bible]], then Christians should not want the NFL'''''.  There are many alternatives for sports fans, including high school and college football, golf, NASCAR, wrestling, baseball, basketball and, outside the [[U.S.]], [[soccer]], [[tennis]], [[rugby]], [[ice hockey]] and cricket.  There is also the option of spending less time watching televised sports, and spending that time more productively instead such as reading or studying mathematics, science, literature, religion, foreign languages, and/or history.