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Is 9 weeks as long as an American football game?

It's about 1,500 times as long as an American football game
The length of an American football game is about 0.006 weeks.
(per NFL rules; playing time only)
Per National Football League Rules, an American football game consists of four periods of 0.0015 weeks each for a total of 0.006 weeks. 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 0.0045 weeks of commercials in 2009.
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