The Best Eleven Minutes in Sports in 2016

A professional football game has four fifteen-minute quarters, but once you subtract all the time the players spend huddling up, walking around, mugging for the cameras, getting into position, and waiting for the referees to spot the ball and the quarterback to go through his pre-snap soliloquy, you get about eleven minutes of actual game play—the throws, runs, catches, and tackles that make the sport worth watching in the first place.

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