You don’t have to wait until the game is over, just run your own tape delay by 20 mins. You’ll catch up before the game is over.
Probably need more like 40 minutes to skip over all the BS and all the ads in an NFL game. IMO they’re completely unwatchable in real time.
As to already knowing the outcome, it’s real easy to remain ignorant of all that if you’re not a fan or bettor, but somebody who just likes to watch 60 or 90 minutes of a contest of skill & brawn regardless of who is contending on this particular episode.
Back in the day we’d build up a backlog of 15 or 20 MLB recorded games or 10-15 recorded NFL games and pick one at random with no idea what had happened 3 or 4 weeks ago.
If I knew which team won, I’d agree, but I don’t.
I watched that game. The lack of announcers made little difference, the TV coverage was just fine. It was like I was sitting in the stands, watching the game.
It’s about 11 minutes of actual play action for NFL games. More time is spent on replays, with the bulk of the broadcast as “filler.” If there was a way to chop-out all the filler and just watch that 11 minutes of action, even with the inane announcers, then we’d have something! Sundays would be so much more productive.
Well …
I think you’d watch just as many minutes of NFL. Which would be ~10 games instead of just one. Whether that counts as “productivity” is left as an exercise for the reader. 
I’m sort of off TV these days. But at one time a few years ago NFL had something they called “NFL Replay” that was available on their free (or at least oft-bundled) cable TV channel. They took a game, then compressed out all the time wasting and even the boring non-productive plays. So a 50 yard drive that was 4 yards and a cloud of astroturf 12 times was replaced by the ball suddenly being way downfield with a caption like [12 ground plays for 50 yards skipped]. IIRC a full game took about 20 minutes to watch.
I don’t know if they still offer that show, but it was great.
They still add crowd noise. I can’t take the commercials. The NFL TV rights are a product of Fox/NewsCorp Russian money laundering— they outbid CBS in the early 90’s
Collinsworth and Tirico are not that bad;… there are times when neither is talking. Romo, on the other hand NEVER SHUTS UP and is forever saying …“I wouldn’t do this,.if I were coaching I would…”
WE watched the whole 1 O clock game with the sound muted. T. Brady is almost as bad. My daughter will text us when the game comes on and they show the two announcers:…“OH No Romo!”
It’d be bad enough if he wasn’t overly chatty, what with that annoyingly hoarse voice.
Hey, at least Romo doesn’t say ‘San Fran’ every chance he gets. I think Brady is far worse, but yeah, the nonstop inane chatter gets exhausting.
For those watching Bills/Ravens, are you getting 5.1 audio? I am not on Hulu.
Last night I was informed that a key to the game would be how well Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson use their legs. Now I am being informed that the Ohio State QB is good with his legs. Do all of these guys meet up every Monday and coordinate all the phrases they will use? Every damn one of them say this.
I still remember going to visit my grandpa in the late 70s and found him watching the Brewers game on his 25” black and white Curtis-Mathis console tv with the sound down.
“Hi grandpa! Want me to turn the sound up so you can hear the game?”
“No! I turned it down on purpose. Those announcers never shut the hell up and they have no idea what they’re talking about.”
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time … a long time.
But it turns out it’s Curtis Mathes, not Curtis-Mathis:
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane.
When did football announcers decide to say “the line to gain” instead of “first down”? Was there a special edict?
I remember hearing this in 1990 at a college game. I was still learning the rules of football at the time as a new immigrant.