THE BIG GAME
The food, fans, fun, or the Superbowl. Hosting at your home is easier than any major holiday. It's one night. The kids don't need a sitter. It's socially acceptable to serve hot dogs. No one argues over what channel or show to watch. Most guests' expectations are a nice TV set up. And beer. A clean house is a bonus. But all sports fans appreciate the immediacy, the crisp HD vision and HD sound, and wifi that delivers at a nonstop 40-yard sprint. Have it year-round.
Range of a Sports Fan for Your Home Theater
- NFL RedZone
- March Madness
- Other college sports (if your kid chooses rugby at college, that's probably not on CBS primetime)
- Hockey
- Basketball
- Golf Simulators
- Kinetic and stationary gaming setups (think Switch)
- Gym (more on that in a minute)
WIDE (RADIO) RECEIVER: ORIGINAL SUPERBOWL FOR LIVE TV
In 1919, one of the first-ever real-time sports broadcasts took place in Dallas. A broadcast announcer read telegrammed updates of a football game over the radio! It wasn't technically live (and someone did the same thing for a Jayhawks game in 1911) but more sports were about to follow.
WATCHING THE GAME HAS CHANGED
A college baseball match between Columbia and Princeton in 1939 was the first sports tv broadcast. There were fewer than 1,000 TVs at the time. Sports is now available on a host of screens (more on that in a minute) and a host of streams.
A long-running dispute between the NFL and a Pennsylvania man over a rough home recording of Superbowl 1 may be about to end--if the Kickstarter works. That original Superbowl 1 scrum was the Green Bay Packers versus the Kansas City Chiefs. And it took place in this year's hosting city: sunny LA.
