I totally agree with the op, a football match without commentators would be super boring, I've had this experience one time when my television audio system was bad, at my relaxing hour, I decided to just watch a football match thinking I would enjoy it like always since I don't need an audio to understand the game.
I turned on my television and switched to the channel, as I was watching, I felt something was off, the feeling of excitement I used to have when watching football was not there, just then, I realized how important the audio was, and then, I began to imagine a football match without the commentators, and also without the supporters chearing and shouting, how boring and uninteresting such a match would be.
As you said, your television does have an audio system problem therefore when you are watching, it's partially mute or the sounds are crashed. That's really bad.
But I'm sure if your audio was fine and working well, you will enjoy the game without the commentator since you have an interest in the game.
Of course, like anybody, it's really worst to watch with the sounds crashing or muted. It's really boring. But here in your story, your issue is not on the commentator's problem but a simple audio problem.