I have no patience for watching anything on television that includes commercials. I got XM radio just because I couldn’t stand all the commercial interruptions on regular radio.
I love football but I despise the commercials. The best move I ever made was to set up my DVR to record the games, and then start watching them only after about 90 minutes have elapsed. So--for a 4 o'clock game, I start watching the recording at 5:30 or so, and I fast-forward through all of the commercials and most of the huddles.
Suppose a team is stopped on third down in the Red Zone, and sets up to kick a short field goal. The sequence goes: field goal made, commercial, kick-off return, commercial. By the time they are ready for first and ten at their 25 or 30 yard-line, about 10 minutes have elapsed since it became apparent that a field goal was going to be attempted. If anything weird happens (a blocked kick, a long-runback, etc.) it's a simple matter to rewind for a few seconds to view it. If the timing is close to okay, I watch the last two or three minutes live. This technique has saved me hundreds of hours that would have been annoyingly wasted while watching car and beer commercials.