I don't disagree with a word you write. My only point is that with the billions the NFL takes in it is inexcusably incompetent of the Technology and Information management team to allow this to occur on a routine basis.
They should be able to fix this for a few million dollars per stadium. The more I read, I conclude that this is not about "vision," it's about nuts and bolts and the classic error of trying to force multiple and often incompatible legacy systems/technologies to work together.
Hire a competent Technology and operations manager who has experience running complex systems at multiple locations and give him or her a salary package with a big upside...a large bonus if the thing works and a boot out the door if it doesn't.
There is no way that the person responsible today is doing the job. Why? The damn thing doesn't work and everybody is covering their butt.
Have the new manager bring in three or four vendors to compete in presenting a plan to fix this from scratch across the league. It looks to me now that the League is too cozy with Microsoft.
Hell, Jerruh spent, what, 1.5 billion on his Palace and the new facility in LA is going to cost almost 3 billion by the time its actually done, why can't the league figure out how to drop some money to get this right at every stadium? A few million bucks per stadium is pocket change in that context.