We’ve watched football several times with the sound off ... the running commentary is so lame ... if you were in the stands watching you’d get the same thing ... lots of noise and people running around on the field - you can figure it out easy enough ...
Yeah, but my football crowd has incorporated it into the football expeience as something respond to. Part of the running pater and wisecracks are pointing out inane, incorrect and "stating the obvious" dumb comments from the announcers. Sort of like a bad movie to do a Mystery Science Theater 3000 thing on. And it allows you to point out some nuance or formation that is being effective about five minutes before the "expert" picks up on it and then you look like a genius to all your buddies and especially the less football astute in the crowd.