“I’ll just have the sound on and click on the game when something interesting happens.”
Which is about a dozen times per game.
We have a similar strategy:
Except for our home NFL team, for pretty much the rest of the games we “watch”, which is mostly college football anyway, we pre-record and hit the 30-second skip forward button followed by the 10-second skip back button to skip the standing around between plays. Obviously, commercials and other breaks are skipped to. There’s actually only about 15 minutes of actual football action in the 3.5 hour total TV show.
If a game is REALLY boring or the score gets lopsided, then we put the show in fast-forward mode and watch the scoreboard ticker ratchet up like a pinball machine and MAYBE stop and backup if there’s a score or a turnover. For super-boring games we’ll just skip to the last few minutes IF the score is close.
We’ve really got much better things to do with our time than watch such boring shows in real time.
Years ago, there was a Grambling football show that I initially thought was a broadcast. Turns out it was just the plays, no huddles, no time outs. The show as 1/2 hour long.