Microchips In Footballs

[Leave No Doubt]

The NFL's reportedly in talks with a microtracking company in Germany to see if chips can be implanted into a football.

While it would definitely cut down on human error, football purists may argue that more technology may confuse the game and erode it's integrity even more.

The chip would be especially helpful when the ball's OOB or to determine a TD asin the final play of SB XXXIV: (NFL rules state the ball must only break the plane)

From end zone to end zone, an NFL field is exactly 3,600 inches, and it’s easy enough for referees to spot a ball precisely when action stays within the bounds of play. But when players take the pigskin out of bounds, refs must watch where the 11-inch-long ball crossed the sideline and then approximate that spot 70 feet, 9 inches away, back near the middle of the field.

NFL brass thinks it can do better.

NFL Considers Ball-Tracking Chips for Accuracy | Playbook