Instead of long, abstruse playcalls radioed into a quarterback’s ear and getting drowned out by tens of thousands screaming fans, each play would just appear in front of each player’s eyes on a wristband. It would completely transform the way the game looks—and even how it’s played.
And as it happens, it’s now closer to a reality than ever before.
In a move that fell under the radar of most football fans, the league that oversees high-school football in Texas just approved a change permitting the use of these types of wearable devices. And while Friday night football in the Lone Star state might seem a long way from NFL stadiums, recent history shows that high-school fields now serve as the breeding grounds for the next stages of the game’s evolution—even when those ideas seem completely radical.
The spread offense and the pass-happy “Air Raid” scheme were both popularized at Texas high schools before trickling up to the pro game. The latest innovation might be less of a schematic advancement than a technological one.
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