Posts Tagged ‘football’

Pittsburgh – it is six

2009/02/01/2254

We watched this Super Bowl through BBC One. I must say that this was a fascinating experience, complete with Rod Woodson, a clueless British commentator who looked like a Liverpool hooker jonsin for heroin, and some other dude who seemed to know what he was talking about. Wow.

There will be a followup explaining how we watched the license-laden Super Bowl, commercial-free, from a UK proxy in, well, the UK. It should be noted that, in spite of the 10,000-mile round trip the signal had to take, we were still 5 seconds ahead of the US radio broadcast.

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It is six. Is there anything more to say?

Yes – it is six super bowls that have been own. I mean won. I mean pwned. Six.

One more thing: PITTSBURGH!!!

The Mystery of the Yellow Line Video

2009/01/09/1019

RTFA: http://www.fandome.com/video/107610/The-Mystery-of…

This is a pretty cool video about the “yellow line” that you see in football games. It explains how they get the data to position the line, how they sync that data from the camera to the computers, and what they do with the data. The home brew modem is one of the coolest parts – check it out!