Sportvision set up a website for comments (available now thanks to the WaybackMachine):ġ0/22/01 10:34:53 AM - Bonnie: Lose the fancy broadcast desks, the fake field floor, the flying statistic graphics and the sound effects and bring back the line!. In fact, when Fox Sports tried to save money by cutting the line from its broadcasts 15 years ago, there was an outcry from fans. Before long, other companies began offering the yellow line to the other networks, and now you won’t see a football game without it. (To understand how dirt and weather affect the yellow line, check out the video above.)ĮSPN was the only network that immediately agreed to pay the steep price of $25,000 per game. So keying in those circumstances was very tricky. Back then when baseball was also played on that field, the dirt from the infield was a close color match to the uniforms. The Niners wear that sort of brownish pants.
Snow and rain caused problems and on one occasion, there was torrential downpour at a Kansas City game.… Another tough stadium was Candlestick in San Francisco. We got lucky the first season because we only did night games (ESPN Sunday Night Football) so the lighting was consistent. Gloudemans, one of Sportvision’s founding engineers, recalled the early days of the yellow line in an interview with the Engineering and Technology History Wiki: and operated by six people in a 48-foot semi-truck parked outside the stadium. It was developed by a company called Sportvision Inc. The line debuted during a September 27, 1998, game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Cincinnati Bengals. The graphic is engineered to appear painted on the field, rather than simply plopped on top of the players, so it doesn’t distract from the game at all. Since the late 1990s, the virtual yellow line has been quietly enhancing football broadcasts by giving viewers a live, intuitive guide to the state of play. With one exception: The yellow first-down line.
Take them or leave them, the experience of watching football doesn’t really change. They’re moving, they’re shiny, they sound like Transformers. Sports broadcasts are wallpapered with gratuitous graphics.
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