10 Technological Innovations That Have Dramatically Improved Watching/Playing Sports

Submitted by podizz on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 07:20
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  1. Night games
  2. Instant replay
  3. The shot clock- It first came to use in 1954 in Syracuse, New York, where Danny Biasone, the owner of the NBA's Syracuse Nationals, experimented using a 24-second version during a scrimmage game. According to Biasone, "I looked at the box scores from the games I enjoyed, games where they didn't screw around and stall. I noticed each team took about 60 shots. That meant 120 shots per game. So I took 48 minutes - 2,880 seconds - and divided that by 120 shots. The result was 24 seconds per shot."He then convinced the NBA to adopt it for the 1954-55 season. The Nationals went on to win the 1955 championship. Well-known clock killer Bob Cousy stated "I think [the shot clock] saved the NBA"
  4. The yellow first down marker- Developed in 1998 by Sportvision, 1st & Ten revolutionized how football fans follow the game on tv by making use of green screen technology to generate a yellow line at the first down marker.
  5. K-Zone
  6. The jumbotron
  7. Football headsets
  8. The radar gun
  9. The bottom line
  10. The dome
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