Behind-The-Scenes Superbowl Tech

jfruhlinger writes "You might be a hardcore sports fan or might think of jocks with disdain, but if you're a geek you'll probably be intrigued by the tech behind the brand-new stadium where this weekend's Superbowl will be played. 84 Cisco access points, 70 wiring closets, 40,000 wired ports, 8 million feet of Ethernet cabling, 260 miles of fiber, 100 TB of storage — all on a single network."

No cheerleaders?

[schwit1]

This weekend's Super Bowl clash between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers will be the first in the game's 45 year history sans cheerleaders. [foxnews.com]

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[Anonymous Coward]

Gee, I bet it will be very exciting to see which group of overpaid multimillionaire jocks will win a game that doesn't fucking matter! I'm on the edge of my seat really.

God damn. If only the scientists and doctors who improve our quality of life and bring new meaning to our existence got half this much attention. What a fucking waste. If space aliens exist and they find us, they might be obligated to sterilize this planet in case our madness and our pathological priorities are contagious.

This is what sanity would look like: after all the poor are fed, clothed and sheltered, after all disease is eradicated, after all tyrants are ousted from power ... then and only then does it make sense to put our excess resources towards worrying about which group of overpaid athletes can most efficiently chase a football. We are far from sanity, folks. We don't have time for it. We're too busy worrying about money, power, money, power, wealth, coercion, money, power, MONEY AND GODDAMNED POWER that's all we care about and have time for. The jocks and their fans, the jock-sniffers, well they made a huge market out of something that doesn't fucking amount to anything, and that's what matters.

Ever wonder why state and municipal governments will spend millions of dollars to build and maintain stadiums? Bread-and-circus, or at least that's what the Romans called it...

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[adolf]

Er, uh. I'm not much of a football fan -- at all -- but all I can think is this:

They're at the Superbowl. The fucking SUPERBOWL. Have they nothing more important to do than fuck with their iPhones, wait in huge lines for bad and expensive food, and then wait in huger lines to recycle the food, while wasting similarly huge amounts of time shuffling to and from their designated seat?

Couldn't they just eat and shit before they show up at the stadium, so they might actually be able to ... you know ... watch the game that they paid/traveled to see?

No?

Then I guess it's truly an American sport after all*.

*: Yep. And I'm an American, always have been, always will be.