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Is 0.0209 sidereal days as long as an American football game?

It's about half as long as an American football game
The length of an American football game is about 0.042 sidereal days.
(per NFL rules; playing time only)
Per National Football League Rules, an American football game consists of four periods of 0.01 sidereal days each for a total of 0.042 sidereal days. 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 0.031 sidereal days of commercials in 2009.
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