The Sunday Read: ‘How an Ordinary Football Game Turns Into the Most Spectacular Thing on TV’

《星期日泰晤士报》写道:一场普通的足球比赛是如何变成电视上最壮观的事情的。

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2024-01-14

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Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, the N.F.L.’s defending champions, is a very loud place. During a 2014 game, a sound meter captured a decibel reading equivalent to a jet’s taking off, earning a Guinness World Record for “Loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium.” Around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, Brian Melillo, an audio engineer for NBC Sports’ flagship N.F.L. telecast, “Sunday Night Football,” arrived at Arrowhead to prepare for that evening’s game against the Detroit Lions. It was a big occasion: the annual season opener, the N.F.L. Kickoff game, traditionally hosted by the winner of last season’s Super Bowl. There would be speeches, fireworks, a military flyover, the unfurling of a championship banner. A crowd of more than 73,000 was expected. “Arrowhead is a pretty rowdy setting,” Melillo said. “It can present some problems.” Broadcasting a football game on live television is one of the most complex technical and logistical challenges in entertainment. Jody Rosen went behind the scenes of the mammoth broadcast production.
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  • Every week, tens of millions of people in the United States watch football, including me.

  • I watch football at home with my kid.

  • I watch it alone.

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  • It's the dramatis personae, the coaches on either sideline, the owners of the teams who are in the luxury suites, all the different star players.

  • Once I began to focus as a viewer on the technical aspects of the storytelling, I grew curious about the vast labor force that's behind the spectacle of televised football.

  • So this week's Sunday read is my recent feature for the magazine about primetime television's number one show for over a decade, NBC's Sunday Night Football.