Originally posted by pdfortune:
It would be cool without ads, but not realistic. You are seeing games out of your area, and they have commercials. What would like to see during commercials breaks? It's weird when you go to a game and players stand around during the break.
In the UK we generally have channels with commercials screening NFL, but occasionally the BBC screens a game and they are not allowed to show commercials (in the UK), so you just get endless studio discussion and recaps of the previous plays.
Even on commercial channels they do studio chats instead of some of the ad breaks, simply because British audiences aren't used to that quantity of commercials.