At the 2015 Pro Bowl, the annual showcase for the NFL’s elite players where nobody tries very hard and everybody wears Hawaiian shirts, quarterback Drew Brees missed a pass to wide receiver Antonio Brown. It should have been a touchdown. When he went back to the sideline, he grabbed a Microsoft Surface to review what went wrong.
There are Surfaces on every sideline in the NFL, as part of a giant long-term partnership between the two organizations. During a game that actually matters, the Surface would show Brees four photos from each play, taken before and after the snap. But the Pro Bowl is when they experiment with new features—for the last couple of years, it’s mostly been video. So he had a full replay of the play, a few seconds after it happened. He noticed Brown had run behind a defender instead of in front of him. So he showed Brown the play, said hey, run in front of him next time, and a few possessions later threw him a touchdown.
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