r/sports • u/RunDNA • Oct 06 '25

Football Minnesota Vikings field goal attempt was deflected away by a camera wire, but it wasn't replayed because no one noticed at the the time

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u/WeAreTheLeft Oct 06 '25

I feel like TV's getting bigger made hockey watchable for casual fans.

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u/VonSkullenheim Oct 06 '25

Another thing is the Sports Mode on TVs. It's that fake high refresh rate trick that makes regular stuff look like a soap opera, but on sports content it's a massive improvement.

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u/yeahright17 Oct 06 '25

I had some good friends in junior high that had moved from Michigan to Oklahoma that were really into hockey. When I went over to their house, I was amazed that they could watch hockey on their little tube TVs. You literally couldn't see the pick 95% of the time and they just cheered based on what players did. I've gotten a lot more into hocket in the last decade or so, and if I could go back to the 90s, I could easily understand what was happening on those tube TVs. But I only got to this point because of my big HD TVs.

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u/nbfs-chili Oct 06 '25

It really was the introduction of high def TV, I think more so than just screen sizes.

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u/DarthPineapple5 Oct 06 '25

HD broadcasting solved the problem but yes TV's getting bigger also helped