Saturday, November 19, 2011
NFL: The All-22 Football Footage the League Won't Show You - WSJ.com
Here's an interesting story.
I'm thinking that football in general (think Penn State) is a closed environment that protects everything very carefully, particularly those things that could reflect poorly...
I'm thinking that football in general (think Penn State) is a closed environment that protects everything very carefully, particularly those things that could reflect poorly...
Reed Albergotti recently wrote about it on the Wall Street Journal website:
"Every play during an NFL game is filmed from multiple angles in high definition. There are cameras hovering over the field, cameras lashed to the goalposts and cameras pointed at the coaches, who have to cover their mouths to call plays.
But for all the footage available, and despite the $4 billion or so the NFL makes every year by selling its broadcast rights, there's some footage the league keeps hidden.
If you ask the league to see the footage that was taken from on high to show the entire field and what all 22 players did on every play, the response will be emphatic. "NO ONE gets that," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy wrote in an email."
