Tonight Could Be Sports History

There is a new face at the Super Bowl this year and it is not Tom Brady who has won 5 times already and his 40 year old face that still looks like a 20 year old. The new face is the great leap of technology at the game with great camera shots everywhere. CBS has shown the Super Bowl for 19 years but this year they out did themselves with new photographic technology. Today’s game will have 115 cameras at the stadium. There is even a thing called the Sky Cam that slides from above following anyone. Today there will be 3 Sky Cams. There also will be 28 cameras squeezed into the pylons   at the corners of the end zones. Somehow some of the most interesting touchdowns happen there right on the edge of heroics.

Some of the most definitive shots are evaluated along the sidelines for accuracy. More often than not at games the officials spend time watching TV to see how the hell they are supposed to call a play. There isn’t even a square inch of the football field that they don’t have coverage. The hardest job of the game falls into the hands of the replay guy who only has 3 seconds to decide on which camera angle to choose to show a replay on a controversial play. Each camera is recorder by a digital tape machine and each machine has a name. The very first instant replay was in 1963 at the Army Navy Game. People thought that Army somehow scored another touchdown and couldn’t believe that they were able to see the play again so soon.

Now instant replays are in every sport. We certainly saw a lot of the instant replay at the Saints game where the guy was trying to catch the football and the guy from the other team hit him in the head helmet to helmet and pushed him out of the way. Tonight three dozen technicians will be watching the game in all those camera angels to see everyone do anything. Hey Trump! Can we have these guys watch the border instead of look at your stupid wall?

The team working hard in the control room to allow us to sit back in front of our giant TV’s are working almost as hard as those crazy guys on the field head butting and beating each other up on a football field over an odd shaped ball. So tonight pretend you are in Atlanta watching the Rams in the stadium make Tom Brady NOT win for a change. We’ll have to find and look for number 99 Aaron Donald of the Rams to stop Tom from throwing his   precision bullet long passes. The Patriots coach old man Bill Belichick who has coached 9 Super Bowls has to go against the wisdom of Rams coach Sean McVay   who has never even coached any Super Bowl before in his life. Super Bowl 53 is all about legacy with Brady and his coach Belichick being able to take yet another bow and both being the first quarterback and coach to win 6 Super Bowls. So watch the game to just witness history tonight.