Is 72,000,000,000 shakes as long as an American football game?
It's about one-fifth as long as an American football game
The length of an American football game is about 360,000,000,000 shakes.
(per NFL rules; playing time only)
Per National Football League Rules, an American football game consists of four periods of 90,000,000,000 shakes each for a total of 360,000,000,000 shakes. The total duration of a football game can often be more than three hours, including stoppages of play, the intermission at halftime, team timeouts, and, in televised games, commercial timeouts. The Super Bowl — the highest-profile game of the sport — aired 270,000,000,000 shakes of commercials in 2009.
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