Fox Will Be Streaming A Thermal Camera View For Super Bowl Sunday To Show If Players Are Cold

Observer – For the first time, Fox Sports will allow viewers to eat wings and drink cold beer while watching infrared updates on the even colder Seahawks and Broncos players’ body temperatures. While more than 80 cameras will show the game that we’re actually interested in, one FLIR infrared camera will allow football fans to see how warm or cold the players are based on how red or blue they look.“Thermal imaging is used in many blood flow applications where you can see how warm extremities are. We can see how a player’s circulation is working or how a player is recovering from an injury,” Allen Frechette, Vice President of Marketing at FLIR, told The Observer. At the 2011, World Series, thermal imaging was used to show if a foul ball hit a batter’s foot. Fox Sports, who has no useful plans for the heat tracking technology, will keep it limited to the Super Bowl for now, but may make the cameras part of the regular season in the future.

Wow, some pretty riveting stuff here from Fox. Is it now safe to say that Richard Sherman single handedly saved this Super Bowl? Because whether you love him or want him dead, there is no debate that without the Sherman freakout, the Super Bowl headline would literally be the temperature. That’s it. Cold air. Sure, it’s not as bad as talking about Seattle fans yelling loudly, but after yesterday’s Armageddon in Atlanta, I think it’s safe to say everybody knows it’s cold as fuck outside. Not sure I need to see some infrared nutsacks to figure it out.

Fox should’ve just retired from the invention game when they made that puck with the glowing lights and orange tail. Should’ve went out on top!

On second thought, I swear I’ve seen them use this thermal camera technology at the Meadowlands before: