you can watch MNF and SNF, you can have a full day on Sunday after your team plays, etc. for football, it's way better. if you cant suck up waking up at 10AM, i dont know what to tell you. it's not like watching european soccer, which is a condemnable act at any hour anyway.

similarly you can watch eastern, central and west coast teams, provided you structure things well. i mean back east you can see the eastern teams, whooptydamndo. in the nba (and to a lesser extent the NHL) you miss out on all the teams worth watching because they play from 10/1030 until 1230/1. if you have the same square job that keeps you from watching games that start at 4 in the west, there is absolutely no way you can stay up that late on a regular basis.