My wife and I try to do the same. We like to try to time things just right so that we could still watch the ending in real-time. Starting a football game at hal

My wife and I try to do the same. We like to try to time things just right so that we could still watch the ending in real-time. Starting a football game at halftime usually works pretty well. This year, I watched all NFL through the RedZone channel. It increased the amount of games that I could follow, but eliminated all the commercials. It does take some of the suspense out of it though, since you don't really get a good flow for a single game. It also helped that I recently moved to CA from Indy and got DirecTV Sunday Ticket to watch Colts games. That was before we knew how bad their season was going to be, so I wasn't too invested in following particular games.