Many sports are implementing technology that is able to track the ball's position throughout the game. Hockey was able to figure it out almost 20 years ago using the not so popular lighted puck. Tennis uses Hawk Eye to track the ball and to determine whether or not the ball is in or out. Soccer uses several systems based either on camera-tracking or magnetic field sensors that include Hawk Eye, Cairos GLT, Goal Minder and Goal Ref.
So why not the most popular billion dollar sports industry in the USA? :idk:
He certainly doesn't have a clue.
Instead the NFL seemingly prefers metal poles connected by chain link and old men. We're stuck relying on the most archaic system in all of sports guided by the most fallible factor: the human element.
The implications that simple human errors can have on a game, whether that may be a given first down when not earned or one taken away at a crucial moment, in a sport most often determined by inches is unacceptable. Not to mention the fact that many first downs and touchdowns happen in a pile of bodies which the ball is covered from view. We're able to track the football player now and display his path and speed. Why not use such information to track the ball?
It's hard not to think that sometimes the outcome of some decisions on the field may be influenced by outside factors off the field when given the advancement in these technologies and the ineptitude of the NFL to upgrade it's antiquated approach to this subject. It's time the NFL the caught up with future in sports and it's on-field technologies.
So why not the most popular billion dollar sports industry in the USA? :idk:
He certainly doesn't have a clue.
Instead the NFL seemingly prefers metal poles connected by chain link and old men. We're stuck relying on the most archaic system in all of sports guided by the most fallible factor: the human element.
The implications that simple human errors can have on a game, whether that may be a given first down when not earned or one taken away at a crucial moment, in a sport most often determined by inches is unacceptable. Not to mention the fact that many first downs and touchdowns happen in a pile of bodies which the ball is covered from view. We're able to track the football player now and display his path and speed. Why not use such information to track the ball?
It's hard not to think that sometimes the outcome of some decisions on the field may be influenced by outside factors off the field when given the advancement in these technologies and the ineptitude of the NFL to upgrade it's antiquated approach to this subject. It's time the NFL the caught up with future in sports and it's on-field technologies.
