We need intermission from commercials

As annoying as it is to have commercials interrupt TV viewing of a sports event, it's even moreso during a live viewing of an event.
You can't sit down and watch a National Football League game anymore without wondering how you've stumbled from the counch and into the final two minutes of a National Basketball Association game, that's how bad it has become in recent years.
And to compound matters, we have those annoying play reviews ongoing throughout a football game that add to the lack of flow and increase commercial content.
Hey, I'm all for officials getting it right, but there's a got to be a limit. Equally annoying, however, is the NFL's policy by which no kickof will be left behind, or to the imagination, even if it means abandoning the excitement of a last-minute scoring drive to win a game.
Sitting in the ACC last week for a Maple Leafs game, it was driven home once again the frequency with which play is stopped to sell something and in most cases — with Canadian TV at least — it is the re-run of the same commercials over and over, spaced out by four-minute intervals of playing time. Three commercial timeouts in a 20-minute period of hockey is a bit much, don't we all agree?
For years, hockey whined on about games that dragged on too long. Since getting its games down to two hours and a few minutes, now it seems intent on increasing the length of games again.
The bottom line is, of course, the lack of flow on any given night, whether it is hockey, football or basketball.
Yeah, yeah. TV revenues help support the sports, no doubt there, but geez Louise, enough already.
How about packing all the commercials into the intermissions instead of watching some interviewer stick a mic into a sweaty face for two or three spoon-fed — and predictably uninsightful —  boring questions.