{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Thinking about how the televised instant replay was essential to taking football over the 20th century to a major American sport...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/660018315332403200/", "html": "<p>Thinking about how the televised instant replay was essential to taking football over the 20th century to a major American sport from a specifically college game when college was a very specific niche thing, with a valence somewhere between lacrosse and ultimate frisbee, over the 20th century</p><p>Because the &ldquo;show a play consisting of 20 guys, then show it again slowed down with someone telling you where to look and why it was significant&rdquo; rhythm allowed broadcasts to not only render the action legible at first look but cultivate the football audience as they went</p><p>Other 20th cen trends it hitched on:</p><ul><li>The expansion of state colleges after WWII and their use as a channel for federal spending in Southern states</li><li>The growth of high schools, with more teens enrolled, consolidation into major hubs of regional identity fit to host community gatherings</li></ul>"}