This may be un-American, but

[grumpyduck]

I don't like watching football on TV. For one thing, too many commercials for my taste.

But I also don't like having two people talking at me for the whole game. And yes, I know I can tun the volume off, but that's not always a choice when watching with someone else, and sometimes you just want to watch with friends.

I don't need the play-by-play: I can see what happened, especially with all the instant replays. But I especially don't care for the color commentators, and I think it's mostly their tone of voice. I can just imagine some of these guys at home, going to the fridge for some milk for their coffee, and saying, in that game voice, "Dear, Junior finished off the milk again, and it's the third time this week he's done that. Last time it was a quarter-full, and the week before it was an eighth. He has an average of six times a month this year, and last year his average was twice a month... "

Now, if I could just find a CD (or something) of just plain stadium noise, I could turn off the volume during the game and play that instead.

[Backseat Driver]

1. Here's one that lasts an hour -

[grumpyduck]

2. Cool, thanks!!

[Rebl2]

3. I remember

my Dad would turn down the sound while watching both baseball and football. Like you, he could see what was happening and didn’t need all the play-by-play blathering. By the way Go Chiefs 💛❤️!!!

[flotsam]

4. My, we ARE a grumpyduck, aren't we? N/T

[grumpyduck]

6. Yup.

[CaptYossarian]

5. The absolutely worst two people to talk throughout a game

thankfully work for competing networks: Joe Buck and Chris Collinsworth. I hate Buck doing ANY sport and the raspy sound of Collinsworth peels the paint in my house.

I really hated Joe Buck during the 2016 World Series. He salivated over the Indians making routine plays and would only mention Javier Baez by name on a 25-player roster. Well, in Buck's terms, Baez beat the Indians 4 games to 3. What an unprofessional twerp.

[tishaLA]

7. Mr Buck's father called the game last time KC

Was in the SB, so I've decided to cut him some slack today. But it's a one day only thing.

[CaptYossarian]

9. Jack Buck had class and was professional. Joe is terrible.

So I watched SVU reruns all day.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I have no patience for watching a game on TV.

I agree with the too many commercials. It may well be a lot more interesting to be at a stadium, but I've never been to a pro football game, so I have no idea.

I will add this for perspective: Some years back some years back some sports channel on my cable service decided to play the famous (infamous?) Oilers at the Buffalo Bills game January 3, 1993. For those of you not already familiar with this game, at half time the Oilers led 28-3. At the beginning of the third quarter Houston promptly made another touchdown. 35-3. Sensible Buffalo fans started leaving the stadium. Then Buffalo started making good plays. Started scoring. Fans returned. Buffalo made it a tie game at the end of the 4th quarter, won by a field goal in overtime.

Okay, so now you know the bare facts.

But watching that game in more or less real playing time, no commercial time-outs, no endless replays, it was simply the most exciting game I've ever seen. And that was even knowing exactly how it would turn out.

Anyway, I have a team I follow (they just won a Really Big Game) but I didn't watch the game at all. I couldn't, because I don't own a regular TV and I refuse to pay for any of the services that might have allowed me to watch. All season I just waited a half hour or so after the end of a game because highlights were always put up on line, and for me, they are good enough. Although I think if I ever had the chance to watch this particular game in real playing time, I would.

As for actually watching the game, you could consider finding a local radio station that carries the game you're watching, and use that for sound instead of the TV version of the sound.