By Jay Heater
Technology has allowed us to stick a couple thousand songs into a box the size of a cigarette lighter. We have Internet access in devices slightly bigger than a matchbox. We can take pictures with our telephones. So why shouldn't football players be able to hear? As college football stadiums become more cavernous and fans become savvy to the fact they can affect games with noise, visiting players have struggled to operate without one of their senses. Technology could change that fact if the NCAA decided to alter its rule that prevents players from wearing communications devices on the field. UC Berkeley electrician Kurt Sakasegawa, who sets up communications for the Bears coaching staff each game, said he would be able to equip all the Bears with speaking and listening devices in their helmets so they could communicate even if a local Air Force base were performing flyovers.
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