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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
Last post by LP -I heard an interesting discussion on the wireless with a jet lag expert (who knew there was such a career?). The theory behind their decision to stick with their usual routine and their local timezone is sound, but the different daylight hours will get you. Of course, that meant that they weren't involved in promoting their franchise and the NFL and that was the point of the exercise.
In my experience, the people who know what to do are the airlines, if you eat when they offer you food, if you sleep when they dim the lights, you'll be in about the best possible condition you can get. It's the Norbit's who push back and watch movies or News all night long that suffer!
As an aside, NASA have been trying this stuff for decades, the Mars lander crew live on a 25hr day so that every week is like a shift change and they operate like zombies. They do it because a Mars day is close to 24.7hrs.
When I was with News Ltd, we worked Newspaper hours, which can be anything from around the clock to 4am starts. You had to have a room setup with blockout everything just to survive, and the best time of day to play or practise sport was dawn. Most of us slept in two sessions, which before the invention of electric lighting was apparently the normal way to exist, with a 1st and 2nd sleep.
