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Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads
mpicpp sends this news from Business Insider:
Prior to the season, Microsoft and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal with one of the major components being that the Microsoft Surface would become "the official tablet of the NFL," with coaches and players using the Surface on the sidelines during games. But Microsoft and the league ran into a problem during week one of the season when at least two television announcers mistakenly referred to the tablets as iPads, giving a huge rival some unexpected exposure. The biggest blunder for the league came during the nationally televised Monday Night Football game when ESPN's Trent Dilfer joked about how long it took Cardinals assistant head coach Tom Moore to "learn how to use the iPad to scroll through the pictures." In a separate incident, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints was spotted by Fox commentator John Lynch using a Surface on the sideline. Lynch remarked that Brees was "not watching movies on his iPad.
That's rich.
...Steve
and a lot of the Announcers are former players
That's nothing, I keep posting about the iPhone 6 on Facebook and people continually refer to it as the Nexus 5! Joke's on them.
To be fair, have you listened to some of what NFL announcers say these days? Most of it is pretty damn stupid, even when they're keeping their remarks to football. I consider it lucky if they can tell the difference between a run play and a pass play...telling the difference between 2 gadgets? Nope.
The NFL is an american, tax-exempt organization that gathers for religious events every Sunday. Except for the summer which they take off. The events are held in temples larger than the Egyptian pyramids, and they are built and paid for by local governments using public money. In return for their service they are showered with large sums of money by nearly every segment of society, and their members are given special privileges that make them immune to some of the normal laws of society. The downside for the members, though, is that their activities are medically dangerous, and they usually are only allowed to take part in them for one to two years before their health degrades and are tossed to the side. In short, it is like any other large american corporation.
Granted, my organization may look like a household, but that's just a clever marketing tactic.
We will need three tablets at first to equip our executive staff (myself and my girlfriend) and our lead associate (her daughter), though our affiliates (extended family) may require them in the future.