If Alexa, Siri or Rosie Jetson did not tell you, JFL’s officially crosses the chain gang as its primary measurement system from first down. These noble descendants of football lore will still cross the sideline in 2025, but mostly as a safety blanket.
Better not be an electric one.
By moving forward, Hawk-Eye Virtual Technology will determine if a ball crossed the line to win, with the chain gang moved to secondary use in case of an error. The NFL tested the system last season.
Is it ironic that this Luddite is researching Hawk-eye through an old meeting-new method available via my reliable village library card? Entering the card number on this magical site provides access to electronic editions of dozens of participating articles across the country.
I read how the Hawk-EYE system is synchronized with stadium cameras that track athletes, officials and of course the ball. If a team reaches a first down (read in your best robotic voice), the system warns officials, which then makes the signal revered around the football world.
(I know that baseball tinks with experimental ball-strike challenge technology, which can ultimately deny referee emphasis, Frank Drebin-Esque strikes one day, but here hopes that the tradition of expanding his right arm after a key first disappeared.)
Perhaps this is a stupid piece of disaster. Most robots we will see on a given Sunday will still be the animated ones coming in and out of Fox Commercial Breaks, right? And it’s not as if the long -lasting on the screen yellow first down the line for viewers at home fades to black. Or has done something other than improving the viewing experience.
In a recently completed Washington Post report, the NFL Senior Vice President of Football Business Strategy confirmed Kimberly Fields that Hawk-Eye is not activated until a proper, alive, cheearkable, Jerabla human official discovers the ball after using their senses to determine a player’s progress.
Progress (your call on the robot voice this time). There is that word again.
For all concerns about technology that invades sports and to get the essence of people who play and decide the games we love, Fields offered this reasoning in a separate report.
“If it doesn’t improve the game, which makes it more effective, we won’t,” she told The Associated Press. “We will not do anything that harms the integrity of the game.”
According to the NFL, it is expected to go virtually with the first down determinations also save small pieces of time. The league reported an average of 12 measurements per week during the 2024 season. While chain rods needed 75 seconds to call, their virtual cousins took only 30.
It is enough to make Washington Commander coach Dan Quinn want to dance the robot.
“Sometimes you are on that device and you want to continue, move the ball,” he said. “So to have ways to do it. … can you do it in a big pile on a quarterback -Smyg? Probably not. But there are other ways you can, to discover it when it is close. Can you identify it and work quickly? I’m down for it. “
Same here, I suppose separately because the colorful, passionate, Pol-Totian people on the side line do not disappear.
Do you remember my reverence for newspapers? I suddenly smile again if a recent summary of the TV route for Cool hand Luke:
“A southern lonely on a chain group refuses to be broken.”
If Hawk-Eye has a failure to communicate, NFL chain gangs will surely be ready to represent humanity-precise they have for more than a century.
