<story><title>NFL opens Pandora&apos;s Box by offering All-22 tape to public</title><url>http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82a0b2d8/article/nfl-opens-pandoras-box-by-offering-all22-tape-to-public</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartonfink</author><text>This is very exciting, as there&apos;s a lot of strategy to American football that isn&apos;t plainly visible when the camera just follows the ball as it does on television. It&apos;s not going to showcase technique very well, but it&apos;ll go a long way towards explaining e.g. why some wide receivers are always open, why some players always seem to be in the right position to interrupt a pass, etc. I&apos;d actually find it very interesting to see something like a Coursera course using film from this to explain different plays, packages, etc.&lt;p&gt;However, I&apos;m not sure it&apos;s of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I&apos;m the only one here who likes NFL football.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>&amp;#62; However, I&apos;m not sure it&apos;s of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I&apos;m the only one here who likes NFL football.&lt;p&gt;You&apos;d probably be surprised.  I know I was surprised when I got to college and found more football fans amongst my engineer friends than my humanities friends.&lt;p&gt;It turns out the game is very complex and deep and discussing strategy can be quite interesting.&lt;p&gt;I wasn&apos;t a football fan when I arrived in college, but I was when I left.</text></comment>
<story><title>NFL opens Pandora&apos;s Box by offering All-22 tape to public</title><url>http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82a0b2d8/article/nfl-opens-pandoras-box-by-offering-all22-tape-to-public</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartonfink</author><text>This is very exciting, as there&apos;s a lot of strategy to American football that isn&apos;t plainly visible when the camera just follows the ball as it does on television. It&apos;s not going to showcase technique very well, but it&apos;ll go a long way towards explaining e.g. why some wide receivers are always open, why some players always seem to be in the right position to interrupt a pass, etc. I&apos;d actually find it very interesting to see something like a Coursera course using film from this to explain different plays, packages, etc.&lt;p&gt;However, I&apos;m not sure it&apos;s of wide interest to HN. As far as I can tell, I&apos;m the only one here who likes NFL football.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sachinag</author><text>It&apos;s not Coursera, but for $25 a year, USA Football has a metric asston of material: &lt;a href=&quot;http://usafootball.com/coach&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://usafootball.com/coach&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>