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Is 360,000,000,000 shakes as long as an American football game?

It's about as long as an American football game
The length of an American football game is about 360,000,000,000 shakes.
(per NFL rules; playing time only)
Per National Football League Rules, an American football game consists of four periods of 90,000,000,000 shakes each for a total of 360,000,000,000 shakes. 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 270,000,000,000 shakes of commercials in 2009.
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