NFL vs F1, which is the better TV viewing experience?

I've been watching the NFL since around the mid 80s. I remember the '85 Bears defense and all the media they were doing. I watched Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary and many other greats play football. I'm a long time fan, though these days I mostly just watch Titans games.

This is only the 2nd year I've followed F1. My driver is Max Verstappen. I don't always understand all the team strategies yet or why some cars are good on certain tracks while not good on others, but still, I enjoy the product on the screen quite a lot.

I'm struck by how fractured and expensive the NFL viewing experience is. $480/year gives me access to watch regular season Sunday games but not any of the following:

• Any game airing on my local CBS/Fox: I watch that on the local channel
• Sunday Night Football (NBC)
• Monday Night Football (ESPN/ABC)
• Thursday Night Football (Amazon)
• Preseason
• Playoffs and the Super Bowl
• One-off streaming exclusives (Christmas, international windows, etc.)

By contrast, there's one place to go to watch all the F1 racing and that's the F1 app I have installed on my Apple TV. Before Apple purchased the exclusive rights, our F1 subscription was $130/year. Plus, the viewing experience on the app is very nice. The announcers are great. I think if I were not already an Apple TV subscriber, I'd be annoyed that I must get a subscription to watch F1.

I really like the length of an F1 race. I think it's so brilliant that F1 caps races at 2 hours. I can do anything for 2 hours. An NFL game is going to last 3 to 3.5 hours minimum and that's a really long afternoon if your team is playing poorly. If your driver or team is doing poorly in F1, well you can just root for an underdog.

F1 has embraced technological solutions in a way that the NFL seems to have resisted. It hasn't been until recently that the NFL has leaned more heavily into improving the replay system. Before that, it seemed they were just considering it part of the game when a ref made the wrong call, but now there's an entire NFL replay team, which I like.

I think the F1 viewing experience from the sofa is superior to watching NFL games. I'll still be rooting for the Titans on Sundays and cheering when we get a 1st down. On Sundays that have both F1 races and Titans games, well buckle up buttercup because we're doing both. I'm looking forward to cooler weather, a crock pot of chili and a sports day with both F1 and Titans. That's a good time.