The NFL Should Steal This Technology from the USFL

Sicilian said:

I agree, but I wonder how often it would actually work right. Most of the time, if you can't tell very obviously that a ball crossed the goal line, it's because it's underneath a giant pile of bodies that would probably be blocking the view of that camera anyway.

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Pape said:

The NFL already has chips in the ball... be easy to add a sensor net to the inner bladder... they use it for the next gen stats

the nfl would need to put sensors on players though to make it work... need to be able to detect a knee or whatever hitting the ground, determining the relative proximity of the player at that time... be difficult on the player end... what happens if it shorts out...

That Damn Belichick... he cut our sensors off!!!?!!?!

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upstater1 said:

How would the chip tell if the knee hits the ground or another player's shoulder pads or whatever?

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Sicilian said:

I agree, but I wonder how often it would actually work right. Most of the time, if you can't tell very obviously that a ball crossed the goal line, it's because it's underneath a giant pile of bodies that would probably be blocking the view of that camera anyway.

What they need is some kind of chip technology that reads whether the ball crosses the line, but the weird shape of the ball probably makes that difficult too. You'd need a chip basically inserted into every outer most point on the oblong.

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Brick27 said:

I’m still baffled the NFL doesn’t have a camera pointed across the goal line of every single fuking game

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TinhWoodhead said:

jets dont need one

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