“According to an operational study of National Football League teams prepared for The Wall Street Journal by Boston Consulting Group, the typical NFL season requires 514,000 hours of labor per team. That’s about eight times the effort it took to conceptualize, build and market Apple’s iPod, according to BCG, and enough time to build 25 America’s Cup yachts. If both Super Bowl teams dedicated themselves to construction rather than football, their members could have built the Empire State Building in seven seasons.”
I read (in Here Comes Everybody?) that the amount of time that Americans spend watching television each year is equal to all the man hours that have been put into building and editing the equivalent of 2,000 Wikipedias.
From the Wall Street Journal, via Dan Pink
