How technology has helped

Football has been around for over one hundred years. It makes sense that with progression in technology over time, the game would inherently change to fit the changing market. It seems simple enough that football would somehow evolve into some tournament played in a massive stadium by some sophisticated robots by now, but it would appear that the only thing that has changed about the games is the uniforms. This is unfortunate, because it would be pretty cool to see a bunch of robots playing college football, but alas this sport doesn’t exist yet. But if you think technology is yet to be introduced to the game, that’s where you’re wrong. Football was first brought to nationwide audiences by way of radio broadcasts. Picture your entire family huddled around a tiny speaker trying to hear what’s happening with a football team halfway across the country. If you think this sounds lame, you obviously have never lived in the 20s. This was the epitome of technology for that time! The next major advancement was the onset of television. It must have been pretty interesting to watch the first televised football game. Now, it was finally possible for people to actually see how their favorite team was performing without actually going to the stadium. Imagine your entire family huddled around a grainy screen trying to distinguish one team for another while a muffled announcer calls the play by play. Now that’s awesome! The next major advancement didn’t come until some years later with the development of one ingenious device that would change the face of football as we know it forever. The single most important piece of technology ever developed in the history of humanity would have to be, you guessed it, the sky cam. At last! It was finally to get footage from the most radical of angles! Who would have thought that with just a few cables and a light camera, on-field footage would finally be possible. The latest development in televised sports is 3-dimensional football. What’s next, holograms that play the game in your living room? That actually sounds pretty cool.