American football / British style

Oh woe is me. Wembley Stadium is full to the rafters with spectators watching American Football. Why ?
If ever there was a game designed for commercial TV its this one with its time outs and its player huddles, its stand off fixed play and its continuous recycling of players. Its no problem for the field commentators to interview who ever they can pick up around the pitch since there is nothing happening on the field and even if the game is in play its so static that there seems no urgency to rejoin the game.
The pundits in the studio swap

 their Geordie accents for high pitched American ones, revved up to a thousand words a minute speaking oceans of goobly gook, not about the game its self but about issues surrounding the game of American Football and the teams and players who play for 'other teams'. They have a script and the game on the pitch is incidental. Its not surprising since watching plaster dry would require a great deal of filler (ha ha) and filler they have in spadefuls. The TV adverts are a relief and knowing how I hate the ads you have to know how I feel about these beefy men bashing into each other whilst the chap with the ball decides who to throw it to.
Perhaps the sight of partially clad (on a cold afternoon) glamorous  girls leaping around waving tassels and shaking their derriers, is what the audience came for but to my mind its all hype, nothing more, nothing less and one has to, once again question the gullibility of the British to buy into the American publicity machine.