I’m watching the Tennis network and the announcers are in New York City announcing a tennis match from 3000 miles away.
Got me thinking .
Why do networks and especially low budget college programs hurting for money pay all these huge expenses to travel 2 or 3 people to broadcast a game when all they have to do is sit in a studio in New York and do the same thing?
In the 50s and 60s you had to .
But you no longer have to do this .
All Al Micheals does anyway is watch a monitor sitting right in front of his face when he’s at the game.
Also why do they measure for first downs with a chain?
They have so much technology with lasers . All you have to do is laser point from the marker to see if the laser crosses the football.
Done. Takes all of .1 seconds.
And most importantly it’s 100% accurate .
But yet in 2018 we have people measuring FDs with index cards.
Whats to stop the person on the back end of the chain putting the down marker in the wrong spot making for a completely inaccurate measurement ?
Its so easy to manipulate measuring first downs with chains.
Got me thinking .
Why do networks and especially low budget college programs hurting for money pay all these huge expenses to travel 2 or 3 people to broadcast a game when all they have to do is sit in a studio in New York and do the same thing?
In the 50s and 60s you had to .
But you no longer have to do this .
All Al Micheals does anyway is watch a monitor sitting right in front of his face when he’s at the game.
Also why do they measure for first downs with a chain?
They have so much technology with lasers . All you have to do is laser point from the marker to see if the laser crosses the football.
Done. Takes all of .1 seconds.
And most importantly it’s 100% accurate .
But yet in 2018 we have people measuring FDs with index cards.
Whats to stop the person on the back end of the chain putting the down marker in the wrong spot making for a completely inaccurate measurement ?
Its so easy to manipulate measuring first downs with chains.
