I do that with my brother who lives in NYC...I am always worried about seeing a text and spoiling something if I am behind on the dvr (though lately there hasn't been much good to spoil).
For me it isn't so much the record...but the eye test. They look awful. There are 1 and 3 teams that look like NFL teams...this is not one of them. And last week is starting to look like maybe Minnesota sucks this year.