[NU Sports] NU football and the march of technology

[Cynthia Dueltgen]

I had a similar experience this weekend being unable to watch the game
live. I used the tunein app on my iPhone to listen to WNUR in my car
(through the stereo's iPod connection) and as I wandered around the
fairgrounds I'd gone to with my parents. In California! It was genius.
I didn't miss a play except during coverage dropouts, which were not
as frequent as I expected considering how bad AT&T's coverage is here.

-Cynthia

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Tom Maycock <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The technological marvels of the 21st century have allowed me to enjoy NU football games at a distance in a variety of ways. Prior to this weekend, the most interesting was probably when I followed the last few minutes of that big double-OT win over Minny back in--2007 I think--by refreshing an ESPN web page on my old Blackberry while on a hike in the mountains of North Carolina. It was actually a fairly exciting way to keep track of the game, but was a far cry from being there, or hearing a live radio call.
>
> For this weekend's game, we were going to be on the road early heading to a getaway in Michigan. Initially I thought this would be no problem, as we can usually get WGN radio coverage on the whole route. The Cubs-induced switch to ESPN 1000 for this game scuttled that, as reception faded below the noise threshold right about the time the pre-game show was ending.
>
> Fortunately, we were able to pull up wgnradio.com through an internet radio app on the (newer) Blackberry. And, aside from a couple of short drop-outs, we enjoyed the entire first half of Dave and Ted's call via the speaker on the cell phone while doing 80mph up the west coast of Michigan.
>
> Arrived at our destination at halftime, unpacked, plopped the cell phone on a table in the living room, and enjoyed the rest of the game, with much better sound quality than I can get from WGN over the air up there. Pretty cool stuff.
>
> As for the game, what a nice win that was. Colter performed as well as I expected, it sounds like our defense has a chance to be pretty good, and there were glimmers of hope for the running game. Now if we could just figure out how to stop those 3rd-and long situations.... (don't we say that every year?)
>
> Tom
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