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Is 0.0022 fortnights as long as an American football game?

It's about three-fourths as long as an American football game
The length of an American football game is about 0.003 fortnights.
(per NFL rules; playing time only)
Per National Football League Rules, an American football game consists of four periods of 0.00074 fortnights each for a total of 0.003 fortnights. 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 0.0022 fortnights of commercials in 2009.
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