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why would you remove the waiting? it's great for me, i can go take a smoke break, make myself a coffee or whatever else :)

So if we got ride of the halftime break, you might quit smoking? :-)

OK, I agree partly. I agree when you say that there still should ba a halftime period, but it is simply too long to wait. It often happes to me (and a lot of other players i'm sure), that I stop watching during halftime because it simply takes too long to wait. Why just not shorten the halftime period and make it equal to double the time period between first and second / third and fourth quarter. So 2:30 minutes between quarters, and 5:00 minutes as halftime period.
That way people still have the time to go to the toilet, get food, drinks, ... or something else, like you say AND other people who are just waiting for the game to resume don't have to wait soo long.
5 Minutes seems ideal to me, in that certain people can do what they have to do, and the others who are just waiting only have to wait 5 minutes, so they'll just stay at their computer and won't leave the game during halftime. So everyone's happy !! So maybe something to consider, because 5 minutes will be much more applauded than 15 minutes. Just do a poll and you'll see !

Best Regards,
Eagle

Awesome idea i always wondered why that hasnt been done

More and more great suggestions are starting to come up in this thread =) Lets hope something of it catches on the BB's.

I think the possibilities are endless, you could even add some trivia like:

"Team X has only lost two times in this season when up by at least 5 points at half-time" or
"This is the fourth time in a row that player X gets in foul trouble early in the game"
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I think the possibilities are endless, you could even add some trivia like:

"Team X has only lost two times in this season when up by at least 5 points at half-time" or
"This is the fourth time in a row that player X gets in foul trouble early in the game"

+1 to this. Like that just as much as Sleet's idea.

I would really love topless cheerleaders or bottomless cheerleaders ....How about this ...the team winning at half gets the naked cheerleaders and the losing teams gets the naked old lady cheerleaders...hahahahahahaha
Or here is an idea. open another tab and read a good article on the net...last week I watch the top 10 dunks, assist, buzzerbeaters, best games and the best ally oops of the 2011 season on NBA.com...it took 12 minutes .....
(http://www.nba.com/dunkladder/) all of Blake Griffins 214 dunks this season....

Love Sleet's and Borislav's ideas!

How about instead of the clock counting down to zero, it started at zero and counted up? That would hold my attention.

How about after every minute they add a pair of nice totties and by the time halftime was over there would be 30 totties bouncing around the screen......Yeah,,,that would be cool

Now you are talking. Get rid of the chat box and replace with dozens of icons that you can place on the hardwood however you like. A stage, stripper poles, girls, pimps bartenders. Create your own little scene. Some dude with the t shirt cannon launching wadded up T's into the audience at 104 mph. Beer vendor dumping his wares all over Billy Crystal. The possibilities are endless. This could even bring about merchandise reform. By watching your game and taking a hands on approach you could actually increase your merchandising by a nominal percent each week. Something small but enough to get people to log into the site more often than they do. That increases hits on the site which helps advertising sales.

I have always viewed merchandising as an untapped form of entertainment. I enjoy being a tight wad owner with a low team salary. It's easy to win with great players but tough with my merry band of clowns. Instead I think merchandising reform to put more some control in the owners hands instead of the completly random way it operates now. My team is from southwest Missouri. Do you think the fans care if I have Americans on the roster? Why would they care if Rodrigo Lopez is on the team when my fans can't spell Smith? Take the draft for instance. 3 players out of the 48 should be local guys that you can see their complete bio. Totally random and can be a total door knob for all I care but you draft local plumber Billy Bob Johnson's incestial son who happens to be the local high schools all time leading scorer but still really stinks he puts few fans in the seats for you. Instead of 95% of third round picks getting cut you have people trying to draft their local products for merchandising. Why doesn't a larger arena bring in more merchandise than a smaller one? Teams with larger arenas that charge less for tickets make about the same as teams with smaller arenas that charge more but get no added merch each week? Are we selling the additional tickets for food stamps? I believe in Missouri food stamps can be used on beer so my merch should be higher. Random thoughts, this beer is gone. I need another.