Football and The Internet

When the editors of American Football Monthly approached me with the challenge of projecting the impact of the Internet on the game of football, I was torn. On one hand, I could go on and on about all of the sites that focus on recruiting and our collective infatuation with athletes who weigh 250, bench press 375 and run sub-4.4 40s. But the \'Net offers many more uses and opportunities beyond the recruiting arena that will make a real impact on coaching and the game of football. I should probably start at the beginning - the beginning of the Internet, that is. Although its impact has only taken place over the past eight years or so, the Internet actually was hatched in a UCLA laboratory in 1969. And for all of you who thought computers were temperamental now, just imagine what the UCLA professors thought after their computer crashed after trying to type B-O-O-T and only getting through