"Imagine walking into a stadium and your smartphone immediately pings you that a $30 premium seat upgrade is available for purchase on your mobile device. As soon as you settle in to enjoy that awesome view of the game, you use your smartphone to order a pulled pork sandwich and imported beer delivered right to your seat. Then, when your favorite player scores a touchdown, you use the team's app to watch an instant replay at multiple angles and a stadium-exclusive video feed of the players on the sideline. Later on, when nature calls, the app directs you to the closest restroom with no wait time." - says Teena Hammond

One out of every three college student will leave during halftime because they are not connect to the Internet and feel that they are going into a connectivity black hole when entering a stadium. Owners are racing to put new technology into their stadiums to attract younger generations. Kids take Internet for granted, they feel that it is important, just as air, water, and food. 
There biggest competitions are consumers TVs. It is a lot cheaper and more appealing to watch the game from your very own couch. Sources from Cisco said that 57% of fans prefer to watch the game at home.It is also pretty expensive to take your family out to game, when you can stay at home and have a warm couch, own bathroom, and a big TV. With added features of WI-FI, fans get an experience at a stadium that they cannot get anywhere else. 49ers Levi's Stadium will be the most connected stadium up to date. "The 49ers said what they're really competing against to sell the stadium is the at-home experience. They believe to sell the stadium they need more than putting a great football team on the field. They need to provide Wi-Fi with instant replays with different camera angles, the ability to order food and access other applications that are in the stadium," said Mike Tighe, executive director of data services at Comcast.

Another big reason for adding connectivity is simple, it makes more money through additional purchases, whether it's food and drinks, or merchandise or seat upgrades. A huge upgrade is being able to make an order from your smartphone and getting it delivered directly to your seat, without having to move an inch. The number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world's population by the end of 2014, and by 2018 there will be more than 10 billion mobile-connected devices, representing 1.4 mobile devices per capita, according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index.

"Stadiums Race to Digitize: How Sports Teams Are Scrambling to Keep Millennials Coming to Games." TechRepublic. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2015. <http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-sports-teams-are-scrambling-to-keep-millennials-coming-to-games/>.

     Have the NFL changed the way they handle consequences of teams and players? Did they handle the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson cases correctly. Roger Goodell admitted to the media that he was wrong of how he handled the Ray Rice case. Rice who was first only suspended for the first two games of the regular season after pleading guilty on domestic violence against his wife, Rice was later suspended for the rest of the season. Adrian Peterson pleaded guilty for child abused after beating his kid with a switch "tree branch" as a consequence. Peterson was not suspended from the league but instead by the Minnesota Vikings, the team of which he plays for.

     Is the commissioner of the NFL doing his job correctly? Goodell is also know for his fines against Marshawn Lynch for avoiding the media. In the month of November Lynch was fined for a total of $100,000 for not wanting to talk to the media. Would you considered it as the NFL invading his personal privacy, Lynch is clearly not comfortable getting interviewed, so why force him? As a fan of football I wouldn't want a guy who is arguably the worst commissioner of all time for the NFL as current commissioner of as now.

     It is Sunday afternoon and 22 million people are watching Sunday Night Football on NBC, whether it's a favorite team or divisional rivals playing under the lights, football is the biggest sport in America. Football has evolved into one of the biggest sport in America and so has its way of playing the sport as technology keeps evolving.
    In August, 20, 1920 four Ohio teams meet in Canton to form a new professional football team called the American Professional Football League but was later renamed the National Football League (NFL). In September 17, 1920 the region of the Great Lakes joined the NFL. In 1936 the first ever NFL draft took place. Players were drafted from the collegiate level to the NFL. In 1939 the first televised game was broadcasted on NBC. The game was between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles. The NFL's Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs to win the first Super Bowl on January 15, 1967.
     Football is now on of the biggest sport with the Super Bowl 49 match up against the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks broke the most watch program in TV history. Data has shown that each year the number of NFL games being watch is increasing. Now that people are able to stream online games from their phones, tablet, and laptops it is much easier to keep up with the latest games. The future of the NFL is going to be so much different from how we see it today. NFL.com released a videos segments called NFL 2020 where it looks into the future of how the NFL could look like in the future.

In this blog I will be explaining the evolution of football and how technology has changed the way players play.
         1) How injury has reduced.

         2) How referees can get more accurate play calls with reply and challenges.
       
         3) How the field and stadiums have changed the way we watch and how the players play.

         4) How Rodger Goodell is fining everyone compared to the past.

         5) How football has lead kids into a clearer path and given them an opportunity to a successful life.