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Imagine the coach of your NFL team failing to relay the play call to the quarterback on the field because his outdated analog headset is picking up the random signal of nearby airplane pilots.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.”
The Stanford football team has said goodbye and good riddance to their paper-bound playbook days. In an effort to minimize its carbon footprint and to maximize availability to critical information, “The Cardinal purchased more than 100 iPads outfitted by PlayerLync, a Denver-based sports technology company that has several NFL clients,” according to reporter John Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News.
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