Letter From the Publisher

In the five years that we’ve been publishing American Football Monthly’s annual Technology issue, we’ve seen many advances in the various software and hardware designed specifically for football. Today’s technology allows coaches to merge diagrams and video together in presentation formats, trade game film over the Internet, introduce DVD options for film quality, track the frame-by-frame movements of the relationship between a quarterback’s throwing arm and hip movement and many other benefits to coaches. However, without question, the single most important advancement in technology that we have witnessed in the last five years is the acceptance and overall use of technology within the coaching community. Shortly after publishing our first annual technology issue in May 2000, we received many calls from high school, college and pro coaches requesting information on the very