My dad would throw on football then put painters tape over the IR receiver on the TV so my mom wouldn’t come by and change the channel.

Soon nobody will understand this.

But then the Bluetooth remotes attacked and everything changed…

Ha, our remote control has Bluetooth. You can even go into another room and tap - the TV recognizes it. The only thing that is sent via IR is on/off.

You guys had remotes as kids?

We had to get up and turn the knob.