Football may be a game with very little on-field action ( a 2010 examination by the Journal's David Biderman showed there's about 11 minutes of play during an NFL contest), but it brilliantly raised its interstices into an art form.

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And this field of research being a self-examination, there are also many controversies, not all driven by strictly scientific motives.

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