For me a very annoying thing is the pre/half/post game shows with their talking heads. It’s amazing that you can gather 4-6 men, often formerly known to be outspoken and articulate, who have spent most of their lives around football ,and somehow not glean one single bit of interesting insight from them over the course of two hours of talking. It would be interesting to hear what Jimmy Johnson really thought of someone’s coaching performance. He’s known to be brutally blunt, insightful, funny and profane around friends. I’d like to see some of that, once in a while.

The two minute warning doesn’t bother me. It often adds an interesting element of strategy to the end of games where time is precious in a comeback attempt.

You forgot to mention the mawkish bathetic John “Cougar” Mellencamp song that goes with Chevy ads. It’s from Hell.

Also, last year’s football graphics on Fox were worse, as they featured a football metamorphosing into some sort of gooey stringy alien spore/pod.

Time synching a game involves a lot more conscious intervention on my part if I’m not actively involved with the game though. I find it’s less relaxing and that I’m not as free to read or do other things I might normally do during a game.