Monday Night Quarterback
Last night, during the fade-out to commercial of the Monday Night Football game, they showed two San Francisco 49er’s helmets sitting on the bench. I noticed that they both had fairly bright green dots, positioned on the middle stripe. So, being inquisitive, I stared to pay attention to who had them, and who didn’t. It seemed the quarterbacks had them, but so did several defensive players.
So, how do you solve a puzzle like that? Well, only one defensive and one offensive player per team on the field had them. So was it some kind of captaincy label? No, that couldn’t be it. Was it some kind of digital tracking system? No, then they should have it on the ball, so they can accurately measure where the ball was, when the player was deemed down.
With a quick search, I find out that it’s, in fact, a marker put on the helmets by the NFL and the referees before the game. Each helmet that has a wireless microphone, has to be inspected by the NFL and marked, so they can be sure that only one player on the field can hear the communication from the sidelines.
The NFL is said to feel that it can be unfair for several players to hear the communications from the sidelines at the same time. Some say it has to do with the ever-newsworthy Vick and his running back last year, who were accused by teams of being able to change the play at the last minute to one specifically designed to exploit the defense being shown by several mobile runners.
It appears that technology will be used for good as well as bad, and we must always keep an eye on when and where it is being used and by whom. There is also a report that this weekend, a patriots staff member may have used a video camera to film a conversation of the Jets on the sideline. What next, a camera in the helmets of baseball base-runners to steal the signs of the pitchers from second base?
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