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Everything Everywhere Daily

The Longest Sports Games in History

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Sometimes you might sit down to watch a sporting match and it is over before you know it. However, there are some games that seem to take forever. A rare few games last an extraordinarily long time, as no one can seem to win. Learn more about the longest games in history, in almost every sport, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sometimes you might sit down and watch a sporting match and it's over before you know it.

0:04.0

However, there are some games that seem to take forever.

0:07.0

A rare few games last an extraordinarily long time

0:11.0

as no one can seem to win.

0:13.0

Learn more about the longest games in history in almost every sport

0:16.0

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is brought to you by the Travel Photography Academy.

0:34.0

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1:19.4

or click in the link in the show notes. Long athletic competitions are always the result of one thing, the inability of the teams

1:30.0

or players to beat each other.

1:32.0

Sometimes competitors are so evenly matched, at least for that one day, that things just keep going on forever and a resolution can't be reached.

1:40.0

Let's start our journey into the land of long games with two sports that do not lend themselves to long games, soccer and hockey.

1:48.0

Both sports have two features that make long games unlikely.

1:51.0

They are played with the clock and they both allow for ties.

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The clock means that there's a theoretical limit to how long a game can be played

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