As the NFL Turns 100, Its Tech Aims to Keep Redefining the Game

The NFL’s 100th season kicks off tonight, with Aaron Rodgers’s Green Bay Packers taking on the Chicago Bears. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)As the NFL celebrates its 100th season this fall, technology continues to transform the sport. The league is upgrading stadiums to 5G networks, partnering with Sportradar to exclusively distribute official data for sportsbooks, connecting on-field officials with the centralized replay review headquarters, and testing a series of innovations in the background. Those experiments include the use of computer vision to identify on-field events, direct video feeds to conduct replays, and a pilot program to study how sensors embedded in mouthguards might help detect head impacts.

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