I went and watched a friend finish a 100K race that finished 3 miles from my house. He figured (correctly) that the beer tent would be down by the time he'd finish so I took him a beer. I set the 2nd half to record and figured I could just skip through the downtime and between plays, no sense prolonging the misery between plays. Plus I had already given up on the game thread with all of the bitching and bashing going on there.
So I came back home and avoided anywhere that I might catch the score and started viewing. It didn't take long before I wasn't skipping between plays so I could enjoy how much the crowd was into it. It seemed like they went for a really long stretch without commercials too, didn't it? Like even after a punt and a score they kept with it, almost like they didn't want to break our momentum? Of course that can't be, because everyone knows that ESPN/ABC hates us.