$13 Billion Industry Uses Folded-Up Piece Of Paper To Determine Outcomes
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The Cowboys earned a first down tonight in a play so ridiculous it made the Steelers' loss look positively pedestrian. The NFL uses computer chips in uniforms, pads, and the football itself-but the decision to award first downs still comes down to a technology so analogue it existed two hundred years before the"