The upcoming NFL season could look a lot different, as chances are fans are not going to be allowed inside stadiums as we continue to battle the coronavirus and try to do all the right things to keep people safe and healthy.
That means television broadcasts will have to get creative in how they make the game feel like the game we’re used to watching. Some have brought up the idea of using fake crowd noise to make it feel more “normal,” which might actually be decent.
But Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson has another idea on how to make things more interesting if the stadiums are empty, and it’s a pretty brilliant one – mic up all the players and let the fans hear a side of the game that we don’t normally hear on Sundays.
He laid it out really well on Lane Johnson’s podcast, here’s what he said via ESPN:
“I think they should [mike up players]. They should give fans the [insight] to see what really goes on between the white lines,” Jackson said on teammate Lane Johnson’s “Outside the Lane” podcast. “It gets crazy, bro. I know in the trenches it gets crazy. And I know on the outside it gets crazy, too, the conversations we go back and forth on.”
Now that would be some incredible television and might even be better than having jam-packed stadiums. I think all sports should mic up players all the time because it just adds so much to the viewing experience, as we saw last week during The Match with Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Peyton Manning, and Tom Brady.
Football is such a complex and violent game that most of us think we fully understand all that goes into it but I have to believe hearing all the players talking during the games would make us realize there’s so much we don’t get.
And that would be awesome.
