Why It’s Never Been More Fun To Watch Sports

This article contains a discussion with the CEO of Sportvision Hank Adams, a company which helps major television networks with their special effects such as the yellow first down line to see during televised football games. Also Sportvision helps with the many cameras that film during major sporting events. The article consists of excerpts from the interview the writer had with Mr. Adams. She asks about the company and how the company has really changed how sporting events will be viewed forever. The yellow first down line has become mandatory for every televised football game. As well as instant and slow motion replay, they have been written into the rules books of almost all the major sports. Mr. Adams does state that in his opinion as the years go by the more and more changes there will be in how sporting events are televised.

I found it very interesting that ESPN doesn’t do all of these special effects and such themselves. It is predominantly run through the Sportvision company. ESPN being such a huge company and all of the shorting events they show, you’d think they’d try to save money and do all of the camera/special effects themselves. The is not the case. Also I find it amazing that with the effects and such on television, they can tell us things that we cannot see. The old saying goes, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Now a days this is becoming less and less true. We are believing things that we’re being told.

I like the fact that the writer put parts of the interview into the article. A lot of times writers sort of change around the words of the peple they have interviewed, not in this case. The writer takes direct quotes from the interview. This would fall under the category of impressive evidence. Talking to the CEO of a major company was very smart of the writer to do. She also transitions well from going in and out of the interview. The article flows very well.