What Might the NFL Look Like in 100 Years?

June 9, 2012   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

At 2:00 a.m., after a day and a half of debate, the bleary-eyed leaders of American football finally put a controversial rule change to a vote. By a margin of one, the change was approved: The forward pass was banned.
But according to The Anatomy of a Game, western and southern members of the NCAA Rules Committee threatened to leave the organization. Chairman Edward Kimball Hall reconvened the committee and reversed his own vote.
That was in 1911, and the forward pass became an integral part of the game for a century hence.
Neither Hall, nor or anyone else, could have imagined football as it is today: a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry that gets broadcast into space, then back down via satellite to the 40-plus-inch HDTVs located in millions of homes around the world.
So what will happen in the next hundred years?
Not the next big trends in the NFL, but how the game will look decades after everyone reading this is either dead, or reduced to a talking ...

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