So I’m at the Jet game yesterday – my first time at the new Meadowlands stadium. Were I dreaming I’d have though myself at the old Meadowlands stadium with a skim coat of concrete and a few more pork sandwich stations. The Jets looked the same as I remember from back in the day, but there was one really cool new thing about the stadium: the video monitors. I’m like a quarter mile away form the screen and the hi-def was amazing. Hair follicle amazing. It was pretty hard to take your eyes of the screen and watch the game on the field. (They never replayed the Santonio drop though and, so, still have some editing policy to deal with — but that’s a story for another day.)
I had to leave the game early in the 4th quarter because my ride needed to pick up his son at baseball practice – feakin’ kids – and on the train from the stadium we sat near some dudes with HTC EVOs (or some such) phones…on the Sprint network. They were streaming the end of the game. A little freezy, a little jumpy, but live. “The Jet’s are on the 20!” My eyes aren’t the best but let me tell you shrinking a football game to the size of a postage stamp is not optimal. You can’t read the graphics, the yard markers or even the helmets, but whoever was providing the game on this hacked channel was showing us the future.
So in one day I saw both ends of the video spectrum. The world’s best and the world’s worst. Perfecting the world’s worst will be the battle. Smart phones the battle field. Peace!