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June 02, 2015
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Patriots film their practice with a drone (in fulfillment of the scripture).
That is the New Testament version.
SpoFi is the ancestral mountaintop source of the Old Testament version, which predates it.
(Hope rcade files returns for SportsFilter with the IRS as a for-prophet enterprise).
posted by beaverboard at 11:38 AM on June 02, 2015
Seriously, how hard would it have been for Belichick to have used a few more words and said, "We're using the drones to get better footage of our practices"?
Not hard at all.
Then again, it's also easier not to say anything and have your opponents look like idiots as they overreact to something as obvious as advanced filming technology.
It would be like a team complaining in the '80s about another team using computers to do data crunching.
posted by grum@work at 12:02 PM on June 02, 2015
other fans react predictably
Really old school: 8-mm or 16mm films, shot from your stadium press box, in order to better see what your offense or defense looks like.
Old school: Video shot from a lift truck, boom truck, or equivalent, usually placed in the end zone. Video editing techniques make it possible to concentrate on single players or small player groupings.
Today: Use of an unmanned aircraft to carry a video camera in order to observe the field. The advantage is the flexibility of positioning the camera to obtain the exact angle and player groupings desired.
Those fans who believe this is just another way to spy are somewhat out of touch with reality. The aircraft would need to be large enough to have the endurance necessary to loiter in the airspace and still carry the video equipment. The cameras are small, but the gimbel mechanism to steer them is not so small. How long would it take for someone to notice the aircraft?
Spell check just tried to tell me that "gimbel" was not spelled correctly. The suggested alternative was "Gumbel". Is ESPN trying to tell us something?
NBC Sports is starting its own documentary series
I read the Sanderson biography. My son gave it to me one Christmas or birthday, I forget which. It was pretty much standard stuff, but the details were alternatively, interesting, frightening, and salacious. NBC will have to be careful with a lot of the stuff in the Daisy Buchanan's era. I will definitely try to watch this. On or off the ice, one never knew what Sanderson might do next.
posted by Howard_T at 03:15 PM on June 02, 2015
the details were alternatively, interesting, frightening, and salacious
My dad used to wind up seeing a lot of ex-pros speak via work and I could tell Sanderson stood out. The anecdote I remember was Sanderson telling the story of waking up on a park bench that a wino was trying to take from him. Sanderson said, "Do you know who I am?" and received the reply, "Yeah, a drunk. Just like me."
posted by yerfatma at 03:20 PM on June 02, 2015
Wade Boggs is old
posted by tommybiden at 03:56 PM on June 02, 2015
Patriots film their practice with a drone (in fulfillment of the scripture) and other fans react predictably.
Not sure if I already posted it, but NBC Sports is starting its own documentary series with one of my favorite Boston sports figures, Derek Sanderson.