As is my custom for the last 50 years or so on Superbowl Sunday, I went out target shooting to hone my skills, instead of watching the game. No one out there to bother me.
That sounds like a fantastic social strategy.
It reminds me of a woman I recently met who has her own fan strategy, which is that she records every game of the SF Giants, the 49ers, the Sharks, (previously the Raiders), the Warriors, etc.
She waits to hear whether they won. If they lost, she deletes those games. She ONLY watches games where ‘our’ local teams won.
There is a certain beauty to this approach. I wish I had heard of it when I was younger.
In your case, you get to go out and do what you like to do and increase your skillset at the same time, so it is a kind of triple-win.