You are not alone.
Last week I went nuts looking for the actual kickoff times. I refuse to watch those pregame shows with their inane blather. It is almost as if the pregame show is more important than the game. And, of course, there are endless commercials.
I don’t know if you saw that study posted on FR last week that determined the amount of time during a football game that the players are actually handling the ball was 11 minutes. 11 minutes!
11 minutes, of a 60 minutes football game that is spread out over 3+ hours. So you know what the rest of the time is spent doing.
Look at the bright side...NBC isn’t broadcasting either game, so you won’t wind up with 45 minutes of Olbermann’s pre-game bullsh*t on your DVR if scheduling is screwed up... :-)