A lot has changed for football spectators in the last 50 years. I say 50 years, because the main turning point in the popularity of the sport came in 1958 when the Baltimore Colts beat the New York Giants in what is called "The Greatest Game Ever Played." It was the 26th NFL championship, and the first and last NFL championship game to go into overtime. At that time football games had been regularly broadcast on television for less than a decade, and color TV was still in its developing years (with things like satellite TV and plasma flat screens still in the realm of science fiction). Even so, the '58 championship drew an estimated 45 million viewers in the United States.
Since that time, half a century ago, football on television has become a multi-billion dollar a year enterprise. With all of that money in the balance, we are certainly entitled to expect that a lot of great advances should have taken place. And they have. By 1972 more than half of American households had color televisions, and color broadcasting of sports became the expected norm. With time, the image resolution also improved, as did the technical and artistic abilities of the people in charge of filming and games and editing footage for broadcast. Football is a great sport for visuals, benefiting hugely from close-ups, replays, and shots from a variety of angles and view-points.
With the advent of cable and satellite TV, even bigger changes have been occurring for football fans. Every Sunday it is now possible for subscribers to watch multiple professional matches from around the country, all broadcast in exquisite high definition. Without a doubt the best advance in this realm has been the NFL Sunday Ticket available on satellite TV. Customers who have long been deprived of being able to watch their favorite team, simply because they reside outside of that team's television market area, are now finally able to see every game and be better fans!
The NFL Sunday Ticket takes all the advances in technology and broadcasting of the last 50 years, combining them to make the best sports package available. You still get great high definition coverage, you just get it for as many teams as you can handle - up to 14 games each weekend from teams outside your local area. You can also choose up to 18 players to follow, to always be updated with their real-time stats.
The athletes who competed in 1958 may have sensed that they were part of a monumental turning point in the history of football, helping to make it America's favorite sport, but they surely never could have imagined how much the sport would grow and improve for the fans. Football is the same great game of strength, unity, and athleticism that it was during the 20th century, but fortunately for spectators, we have made leaps and bounds in the way we watch the game in the new millennium.
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