AMAZING Technology! From Yellow Line to skycam and Pylon Cam | NFL EXPLAINED Broadcast Innovations

The pylon cam was my idea.

Bruh if you're a football fan you'll probably find this impossible to turn off! This was so good!!!

Really good video!!!!👌💯🤘

That’s actually really sick to see. For someone that has watched football and sports my entire life. Especially the skycam.

Sony mirrorless large format sensor camera?! I don't believe such a camera exists. (He must mean full-frame.)

Fantastic technology but the producers still get to decide on what's shown n replayed..... I've seen too many questionable plays over the years not even given a quick 2nd look n just moved on when they've clearly coulda made a difference in the game/score .....

Ngl, crowd noise is not my fav. Too loud to hear the announcers
clearly. My parents feel that equally. Sometimes, people want to escape the crowd, that includes the crowd noise.

First time I saw a yellow line for a first down marker was in Tecmo Super Bowl. Years before 1998.

All this innovation and they still can't put four cameras on both endzones at each end 24/7. lmao

So much tech, yet we rely on refs that flood the game with faulty calls and horrible decisions.

I miss the FOX score bug in the corner that would accumulate leaves or snow, and especially the version that had Christmas lights for timeouts during December games.

A lot of us invented the pile on cam years and years ago

OMG they completely forgot about the giant screens like at Dallas stadium 😮 and how about the supposed "chip" in the football 😮???

Who wouldve thought generating a yellow line took so much lmao I always thought it was such a simple task when I was a kid because I was great with computers

To the new guy who just found this video, watch all the way to the end, you won't be disappointed.

Friendly Reminder that we still have elderly men calling balls & strikes in baseball.
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"Jed likes Emmys"....ho-lee!! I guess so!! lol

EDIT: This was SO friggin cool!!!

Loved this documentary.

Finally a sport without "Kiss Bop" !

Shame we are a decade overdue for 4K 60 broadcast. All this is really cool but if you're really look at the broadcast, they look awful.

I'm from South-Africa and i wish we could have this detail in our rugby matches. Imagine tracking fastest player in the field. G-force with biggest hit. POV helmet view where you can switch in-between players... this is crazy

"if you are in New England or Boston, it's not a good idea", that got me laughing. I am a New Englander and hated that puck.

All this amazing technology and the NFL is still too cheap to install chips into the balls to achieve rear time distance tracking, or to actually make officiating a full time job !

Next, we need the ability as the home viewer to change the camera angle on our own. Maybe I primarily want to watch a game in "the Madden" Skycam view instead of side to side. I would like to be able to switch between during live play.

Football is boring either way.

When did they switch from flags to pylons? When I was a kid it was little flags to mark the end zone

Skycam AKA Madden View was used by XFL every game in 2001 but even the NFL techs weren't watching XFL...

You forgot to mention the colossal failure of the booger cam😂

Let's Go Hockey!!!!

Loved it. Go ahead and put the circles under their feet with their name. Like Madden. Do it.

@NFL@SteveSmithSr. I love this series. Keep up the great work! It takes a lot of 🏈🏈 to just show up on national TV (with no prior experience) be good at the job and be entertaining at the same time!🫡 If it's not too many politics involved, I feel like S.S Sr. Would be great as an (assistant) offensive coordinator, coach. Maybe call a few plays. Or let him coach WR's during a game (or practice) and pass on that 16 years of knowledge. The Who⚜️Dat Nation would be my first choice 😂 or maybe one of his former teams he played for.

This was legitimately so cool

Hopefully one day we can get to a technology that human refs are no longer needed

Technology needs to be integrated more for officiating lines

Not to be the party pooper, but the TV got built around the game.

Get rid of the constant add breaks and NFL will be great. Look at what Rugby does

The yellow first down line was absolutely incredible when it came out. Wizardry. Black magic.

this will probably be required reading for every state college telecom. degree

This is one of the best documentaries I have seen the whole year. Thank you!

trying to say they were before apple is the most nfl thing ive ever heard

I'll keep subscribed . Love your stuff !

I remember watching the Browns and the Lions when I was a kid in Anderson, Indiana - all in B&W. I don't think I watched a football in color until the early 1970's.., and at first, I hated it. Don't know why. The stuff they do nowadays is flat out amazing, and I love it..!!! Still miss John Madden though. 😢😢

I find it wild how people used to watch football without the game clock and down position.

Mind bending. Simply incredible to see all the things we take for granted while watching the NFL. Wow. Amazing vid. Thank you!!