Commercials are causing me to turn off other games

Cut thru the commercials and just enjoy football.

that I like and I watch it during commercials. It with imbeciles like Collinsworth blathering on, sometimes I don't go back LOL.

advertisers know they can reach people during live sports esp. the NFL so they are looking to make commercials, and the NFL short on cash from Covid were happy to stuff as many commercials into their broadcast as possible.

I agree it's insane how many there are. I think this season is worse and that may be because the NFL is trying to make up revenue.
If you go back and watch and older games you really notice the difference.
I have been thinking about using a stopwatch to see how much of a 3 hr broadcast is actually live at the stadium.
They even show commercials in short spots in split screen now. It's too much

In comment 15060971 Spider56 said:

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Cut thru the commercials and just enjoy football.

Absolutely the only way to watch football these days. Can't even remember last time I watched the Giants live.

there are going to be more commercial breaks during the playoffs where they might show a split screen with the field and a commercial.

Poor officiating and rule changes over the years has put me off more with the NFL than they trying to bring in revenue.

Perhaps I have unrealistic expectations but what’s driving me nuts lately is the types of commercials as well. My youngest has become a giants super fan but these commercials range from erectile dysfunction to severed heads forcing me to always have a quick draw changing the channel. I kinda wish they would make it easier for all ages to watch the games. Especially during the day games. Again, I suppose the answer is perhaps he is too young to watch (6) but it’s a hassle.

i watch redzone and do gamepass if i want to see a game. usually end up falling asleep on the couch for the night game.

ads suck

In comment 15061000 Micko said:

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Perhaps I have unrealistic expectations but what’s driving me nuts lately is the types of commercials as well. My youngest has become a giants super fan but these commercials range from erectile dysfunction to severed heads forcing me to always have a quick draw changing the channel. I kinda wish they would make it easier for all ages to watch the games. Especially during the day games. Again, I suppose the answer is perhaps he is too young to watch (6) but it’s a hassle.

Now that's a legitimate complaint that I will agree with.

especially the Bears. I never want to watch them play, ever. They literally put me to sleep every time.

I usually DVR the Giants games and watch them on delay without commercials. For the other Sunday afternoon games, I watch Red Zone instead of a single game broadcast.

I hardly watch Thursday, Sunday and Monday night games unless it's a close game and then I might tune in for the last few minutes.

The up and coming youngster demographic is growing up in the new streaming world.

What they want, when they want it, no interuptions.

NFL will definitely have to rethink the formula

How offenses + penalties are contributing to lengthier drives thus less football time and more commercial time. Was hoping somone can prove that to be true.

College games are absurd long but the NFL should consider not running clock after penalties (25 second reset) + 10 seconds stoppage on all out of bounds plays. This would inject more football time and less stoppage time. Or just 1 minute to each quarter :)

If I do, I'll go to Reddit, pull up a documentary and watch it during all the commercials. Then at some point give pu like Eric did.

including the Giants, but usually I am watching the NYG game live, but if NYG are on at 1 or 4 sunday, you can always bounce to redzone during commercials.

If the Giants are on primetime, or it's any primetime game, you absolutely must DVR it and start the game 60-90 minutes late. Go take a walk when the game starts--or do chores or kill time around the house. You won't regret it. I haven't watched commercials during night games in years and RZ is there to save us on Sundays.

you keep the wife and kid(s) happy--it's family time in my household around 7-8:30 PM--my wife and daughter understand and prepare themselves when the Giants are playing at night, but I usually come off as the hero when I just DVR the game and hang out with them. Then I go watch the game later and avoid awful and loud commercials. I even did it on thanksgiving--I DVRed the dallas game but was actually able to watch first half with no real issues--second half was going to be tough so I just resumed it later when things were quiet.

For years. Advertising kills the experience.

It’s almost as if half of the league’s revenue comes from TV deals LOL.

I’d gladly pay for a commercial free model like Netflix. But I suspect the NFL would go out of business if it went that way.

Personally, I don’t mind commercials during the game. I’m usually working or reading on my phone.

But especially when watching with my son.

We may start it live, but as soon as the first commercial hits, it's rewind through the previous plays. What did you see? Good football discussion. There's so much you miss on a first watch anyway. Great way to teach your son the sport and what you know/look for. Gives you keys of what to look for/expect in the next series. You can always catch back up to the live play by the time it's over. Heck, you can catch up to the live broadcast immediately if that's so important to you.

Remember - during commercials you do NOT have to sit and watch them live. You can go back and re-watch the content you are interested in.

Unfortunately, most games when there is no rooting interest, are a bore. This is made worse by the commercial load during frequent stoppages. Most times, I tune in early, watch a few series and then lose interest. I will tune in as the end of the 1PM and 4PM games approach to catch a potentially interesting ending. I don't think I've watched a full live broadcast in over 10 years. Kinda sad.

In comment 15060993 Giantsfan79 said:

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there are going to be more commercial breaks during the playoffs where they might show a split screen with the field and a commercial.

They've been doing that during the regular season, usually on 30 sec TOs or injury stoppage if it was right after a break.

The rest of the NFL is not worth my time.

Also, on the radio Papa does some commercials between plays.

so no surprise with the commercials.

I have Sunday ticker, so I never watch commercials, except for prime time games. Then I usually flip to something else during the commercials since I don't care if I miss some of these games.

wish TV had ad-blockers, like browsers do, so you know, we can stop the annoying intrusions (although ironically I believe you asked people not to enable ad blockers on this site because you rely on advertising, kind of like the NFL does)

not meant to be snarky, just observational

yesterday during the games than normal and it was quite annoying. We thought it may be related to the holiday shopping season that has started and the retailers trying to get their messages out.

I usually DVR the game and watch on a 30 minute delay or so, but didn't yesterday so it was painful not being able to fast-forward.

If the market bears $400 for all the games with commercials, stands to reason the value for those games without commercials would be many times that.

Interested in what fans would think a fair price to pay for games with fewer or no commercials.

I dropped in to watch and Green Bay was kicking an extra point to go up 21-3. At that point, I decided that there was nothing to see there.

That said, it is amazing to have Sunday Ticket and hit a commercial break and find 2/3s of the other games are also in commercial.

prime advertising audience views games. I turned it off last night, not because of commercials, but because the Bears looked non competitive. I only even notice it when it's a solo spot game and the game sucks.

every year we watch the original Frosty that airs on CBS 8 pm on Friday after Thanksgiving. We own a copy without commercials, but I'm nostalgic with certain things and like gathering the kids in front of the TV for that specific airing. It builds excitement for them doing it that way.

While we were watching, my daughter turns around and says "Can't you fast forward? I HATE commercials". I explained that some things we have to watch live and see the commercials, like football.

Yesterday, during the Giants game, she asked again why I couldn't fast forward during the commercials. At that point I just said "it is what it is".

Change of possession tv TO/play/two min. warning/play/team TO...that's the worst!

Tune both to the Giants game(or whatever game you're watching). On your better TV, click to Red Zone during commercials. The second TV is to alert you to the end of the commercial barrage.

from the last 20 years or so. It allows a fundamental change in how one can watch television.

As others have said, I DVR almost all things I watch, even "live sports". As Eric indicated, the number and frequency of commercials makes watching the NFL live unwatchable.

In comment 15061204 Trainmaster said:

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from the last 20 years or so. It allows a fundamental change in how one can watch television. As others have said, I DVR almost all things I watch, even "live sports". As Eric indicated, the number and frequency of commercials makes watching the NFL live unwatchable.

Ditto ... ruined only by PITA text messages telling you what happened in advance.

I don't know if it's getting older, the play, or just life in general, but I have a hard time watching non Giants games nowadays. I will MNF or TNF on, but it's usually just in the background, not like I'm glued to my seat watching every play. It wasn't always like that.

In comment 15061270 Spider56 said:

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In comment 15061204 Trainmaster said: Quote: from the last 20 years or so. It allows a fundamental change in how one can watch television. As others have said, I DVR almost all things I watch, even "live sports". As Eric indicated, the number and frequency of commercials makes watching the NFL live unwatchable. Ditto ... ruined only by PITA text messages telling you what happened in advance.

This times a million. Hard to put your phone down for the whole game too.

And show fewer (and shorter) commercials? The time taken by commercials is already having an adverse effect on being at a game. I also agree about in-broadcast commercials between plays. On CBS radio sports flashes, they lead with a commercial (usually GEICO), which tells me the commercial is more important than the content.

where only 4 seconds ran off the clock in 20 minutes due to change in possession, weird unnecessary play review, a time out, etc.

In comment 15061270 Spider56 said:

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In comment 15061204 Trainmaster said: Quote: from the last 20 years or so. It allows a fundamental change in how one can watch television. As others have said, I DVR almost all things I watch, even "live sports". As Eric indicated, the number and frequency of commercials makes watching the NFL live unwatchable. Ditto ... ruined only by PITA text messages telling you what happened in advance.

Turn off notifications, problem solved.

Sometimes they play no commercials on 4k broadcasts, and the amount of dead time in NFL games is pretty remarkable when there are no commericials filling it up.

Even MLB games, there is so much dead time.

I stopped watching other games years ago.

And now I don't watch the full the GIANTS or Bills games, either. When the commercial and promo load get too much, or they get so bad that I can't stand them (insurance companies and lawyers are the worst offenders) I just turn the game off and go do something else.

a game all year, just highlights on giants.com

I have flipped through the channels and the commercials are horrible in number, content, and message.

It's amazing how many times it happens that I'm bored and browsing through the channel guide on the tv, click on a movie or tv show, and find it's on a commercial break. So I click on another... commercial. Another... commercial. Six or seven straight, and that's at a random time (not like 8:58 or something).

And listening to something like ESPN radio live takes it to another level. Podcast versions are the only way I can listen to radio shows now.

But one of the great things about Soccer is that you don't get a ton of play stoppages to do commercials. You get constant play for almost 45 minutes (unless there are fouls, goals, etc, and even those don't take long time outs).

Now, Soccer gets around this by selling ads on player uniforms, and running banner adds on the screen, but they don't distract from the play. My fear is that the NFL will continue to try and squeeze more money by not only having more and more commercial stoppages, but also add in the ads on the uniforms and TV banner ads during play (as well as TV field graphics similar to their yellow line for first downs).

In comment 15061325 penkap75 said:

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Sometimes they play no commercials on 4k broadcasts, and the amount of dead time in NFL games is pretty remarkable when there are no commericials filling it up. Even MLB games, there is so much dead time.

This used to be the case. The past several weeks the 4K broadcasts from Fox have included commercials.

In comment 15060971 Spider56 said:

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Cut thru the commercials and just enjoy football.

That's what I have been doing. I also turn-off my phone so that I don't receive game updates

Like Victor said, you’ve got to line up a slew of mindless alternatives, like Animal Planet for instance so you can switch off in an instant. First musical note I hear...I’m gone.

Problem is so many of these stations must be using fancy software to monitor each other’s commercials because they’re all breaking simultaneously to discourage channel surfing.
Bummer...

I always have a book or magazine handy. I got through bears/packers with the help of a couple articles in Foreign Affairs and a seed catalog.

In comment 15061347 jhibb said:

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It's amazing how many times it happens that I'm bored and browsing through the channel guide on the tv, click on a movie or tv show, and find it's on a commercial break. So I click on another... commercial. Another... commercial. Six or seven straight, and that's at a random time (not like 8:58 or something). And listening to something like ESPN radio live takes it to another level. Podcast versions are the only way I can listen to radio shows now.

I have noticed the same thing. I sometimes look at a movie's running time, maybe 1.5 hours (rarely is a movie much over 1.75 hours), and when you look at the time slot (on a channel that does have commercials), it's 3 hours?! So great, for every minute of watching, we get one minute of commercials.

Do I really need to see another Geico, Progessive, or Liberty commercial with some character doing some goofy stunt or quippy line to make us remember them? Reality is that I am so sick of most commercials like that, the net affect is that I will NEVER patronize their company. So congratulations companies, you have accomplished the opposite of your intent. Saturation is nauseating.

Whew, got that off my chest. Thank you.

is unbearable and has been for a while. Even Giants games I typically DVR and start 30-60 minutes after kickoff.

Same with golf