David Shaw explains it best when he opens his TEDx speech from earlier this month with “yes, a football coach was invited to speak at Tedx……good luck”. Except Shaw isn’t any ordinary football coach. He has already produced a 30-minute lecture in the heat of the 2011 Heisman trophy voting about how Andrew Luck was […]
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Imagine the coach of your NFL team failing to relay the play call to the quarterback on the field because his outdated analog headset is picking up the random signal of nearby airplane pilots.
Seems a little farfetched for America’s largest sport to have simple communication problems right? But just ask San Francisco 49ers Offensive Coordinator, Greg Roman, about trying to communicate with his quarterback, Alex Smith, last year.
According to Roman, “There was one time when I was doing it and it happened to be on the same frequency as an airline in a certain city and it was a critical situation in the game and all you hear is Southwest pilots talking.”
