NFL Locker rooms to have cameras

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MotionMan

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http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9133170/nfl-show-locker-room-video-stadiums

NEW YORK -- Hey, NFL fans, here's a new view for you at the stadium: the locker rooms.

The NFL has ordered all teams to have cameras in their locker rooms next season, with video shown only on stadium scoreboards. It's part of commissioner Roger Goodell's initiative for "enhancing the fan experience in our stadiums."

The videos will be available on team apps as well.

Each team will operate the cameras and will determine what is shown on the video boards and apps. The Cowboys already have been making such videos available to fans.

"Our philosophy is to always look for ways to improve," Goodell has said. "Our goals are to continually evolve the game to make it better and safer, serve our fans in new ways, and represent the NFL with integrity. We do that by emphasizing quality and innovation, including the latest technology as it applies to everything from equipment to medical care to the stadium experience."

NFL vice president of business operations Eric Grubman said last summer that the cameras were coming. They have arrived.

"Then we will be offering unique content, as we already are doing with the video replays involving referees," Grubman said. "I can see cameras in locker rooms or tunnels or coaches' facilities before games. Fans want it, and clubs can do it."

Teams also will be required to show all replays available during a video review on the video boards, not just those the home team would choose -- ones that might be favorable to the host club.

Grubman has predicted more in-stadium improvements for fans, especially in the use of videos.

"We're thinking of really advanced video in concourses and parking lots," he said. "Fans want to know what is going on around the league, they don't want those areas to be a zone of less information and it doesn't need to be."
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...until this happens again (NSFW).

MotionMan
 
SpunkyJones

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Sounds cool, but I'm still a TV watching football guy, I need to be able to flip between multiple games.
 
Newbian

Newbian

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Will they be available in the showers when the female lingerie teams use the rooms? ;)
 
vi edit

vi edit

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This will go over great. Almost as good as the elimination of kickoffs idea.
 
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bignateyk

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Damn that's a big penis [didn't watch the vid, but I'm assuming it's a huge black dude naked]
 
rh71

rh71

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at first I thought this was about protecting the female reporters going in there.

I think seeing into the locker room _occasionally_ is good for fans. Hockey does this a lot and you never see anyone naked... you get an insight into who players sit next to and if they're jokers or not. On the flipside, I'm no pro but am in a locker room full of players weekly and having a camera in there would be really uncomfortable. Where do you actually change?
 
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Red Storm

Red Storm

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I think it's a bad idea. It's already bad enough seeing the cameras and mics in team huddles and during halftime in the NBA. Teams know when those are on so they say some general line about effort and whatnot and then when they go off they focus on actual strategy and tactics.

Also I feel like the locker room is a private environment for players and coaches. They already give their all out on the field/court in front of of millions of viewers, they need some place that they have to themselves.

This is sport, not a reality show IMHO.
 
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