South Dakota?!

So watching Sunday night football my wife, Megan, comes up with a classic line for me. She pretty much writes this blog for as she has some great one liners.

We're watching the Indianapolis Colts (IND) take on the San Diego Chargers (SD). For all the football games that are on, there's always the score somewhere on the screen indicated by the teams cities. Megan likes to guess where the teams are from and what the team names are when she first sees the screen. She correctly guesses Indianapolis and then guesses South Dakota for the Chargers?!

Now in a man's world, these team names are common knowledge. Even if we don't know the teams right off the bat, we do know that there are NO teams in South Dakota, except for the Fighting Sioux, NCAA hockey team! Another fact about these little score indicators on the screens at all times are that they always indicate the CITY of the team, for those that don't know.

Another fact that is not known is that these information bars were first used during Super Bowl XXVI when the San Jose Elephants took on the Portland Seagulls in 1994. On average, 34% of people just watch the game for the commercials (another little known fact) and these people were so impressed by actually knowing the score of the game at all times actually became interested in the game!

Actually, that last paragraph is completely made up and 95.2% of all facts are made up on the spot (another little known fact).

The other technology that was gladly short lived what the glowing red puck used during some NHL broadcasts. It was used by Fox and was called the FOXTRAX, dumbest idea ever. Thankfully all 17 of us NHL fans spoke up and Fox stopped using it. The only time it was good was when the puck flew into the crowd and pegged the unsuspecting patron, we could actually see who it was that got hit right away.

Either way, this information bar is crucial to sports today. Just try and watch an old 1980's NBA game when they only show you the score after someone scores or there's a timeout. What a pain