If you have a true 5.1 surround set up (not a soundbar), just unhook the center channel speaker. If the network is doing an actual 5.1 broadcast, the announcers go to the center channel and the field/stadium sound gets sent to the front left and right speakers and rear surrounds.

In the 90s, my mom drove a used 1985 Chevy Caprice wagon that would somehow trigger other closely parked cars’ remote car locks to unlock when the power locks were engaged in the Caprice. Her car did not have any sort of remote locking, though. What would happen is you would use the power locks to lock or unlock the…