The pace of NFL games is ridiculously slow. Every Sunday I look forward to watching the Vikings, and before the first quarter is over I'm bored to death. The effect is even worse after watching an NHL game the night before.

Another thing are the commercial breaks. Some days the networks just have the commercial programming all screwed up. For three commercial breaks in a row (and more than five times during just the first quarter), I saw this Volkswagen commercial during the Vikings/Lions game:

I like the commercial, but seeing it that many times makes me want to ensure I never buy a Volkswagen. It actually caused us to change the channel and stop watching the game a few times. Whatever marketing strategy FOX and Volkswagen had for during the game backfired.

Is it really that big of a deal? No. But it was either this or post about what I ate for breakfast today. Or something.