The NFL continues searching for ways to improve the stadium experience for fans while watching football at home becomes better and better and the next step, look to the microphone. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that owners have given permission for microphones to be placed on certain players so that fans can listen in via an in-stadium phone application that will distribute the raw feeds. We've heard plenty of players miked via broadcast television, but never at the stadium. We have also never heard a player miked unedited and uninterrupted, talk in the huddle isn't always kid-friendly, so it's possible the league might come up with a way to edit or monitor what is said on the feeds before little Ricky learns a few new words to describe an opposing linebacker. "You have to be able to make the game open, you have to give explanations, you have to give information," Grubman said. Source: NFL.com
Jesus, so now not only do I have to sit next to some douche bag, but the DB is going to have his phone stuck to his ear the whole time, telling everyone around him what so and so just said on the field? Stop freaking with my game dammit.
So an opposing coach could get the app and hear what's going on in the other teams huddle? Good idea. This just in App was created by Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Belichick.
