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First Video Boards in Sporting Venues
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:10 pm
What year were video boards introduced to collegiate sporting venues for it respective sport IE Football, Basketball, Baseball???
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Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:14 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
The roman empire
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:18 pm to lsuman25
I was thinking Egyptian Pyramids thanks for pointing me in a better direction. That gives me a time period to start looking at photographs from the archives
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:19 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
They were built upside down then
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:30 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
There’s a famous shot of Desmond Howard watching himself return a kickoff for a TD on the video board in the Superdome during Super Bowl 31. So they were at least around in 1997
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:14 am to LSUSportsFan2000
According to wiki it was 1980 in Dodger stadium.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 12:26 am to LSUSportsFan2000
Nineteen Dickety-Three
Posted on 5/3/24 at 5:35 am to olemc999
I remember for the Ohio State game in Tiger Stadium (87ish) they brought one in on a crane over the Eastside stands. That game was a spectacle. I remember Ohio State and coach Bruce refusing to come out of the locker room first with the crowd going absolutely crazy
Posted on 5/3/24 at 6:20 am to LSUSportsFan2000
Astrodome?
Posted on 5/3/24 at 2:47 pm to cypresstiger
Texas Stadium had 2 video boards in the early 80s.
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 2:50 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
Like the first Jumbo-tron? Dunno. ask google.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 3:06 pm to GVT
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I remember for the Ohio State game in Tiger Stadium (87ish) they brought one in on a crane over the Eastside stands. That game was a spectacle. I remember Ohio State and coach Bruce refusing to come out of the locker room first with the crowd going absolutely crazy
Chris Spielman probably wished Eric Andolsek didn’t come out of the locker room that day.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 4:17 pm to lsusa
The Astrodome was the first to have animated lightboard in 1965, not true video but a glimpse at what was to come.
The first true video board was unveiled at Dodgers Stadium at the 1980 All-Star Game.
The first true video board was unveiled at Dodgers Stadium at the 1980 All-Star Game.
Posted on 5/5/24 at 6:10 pm to MrWalkingMan
Is someone making a claim that the first they know of a video board is 1997?!
Posted on 5/5/24 at 6:23 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
I remember the Spurs having likely the first back in the mid 80s. Arkansas added our 107' wide one in 2001, then the largest in the world. Eclipsed a few years later but the trend was on 20+ years ago.
Posted on 5/5/24 at 6:42 pm to Keyser Sooieze
the Superdome had giant projecters hanging from the center of the roof in the 70's. Technically wasn't a video board per se, but it showed video.
Posted on 5/5/24 at 7:07 pm to Broski
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the Superdome had giant projecters hanging from the center of the roof in the 70's. Technically wasn't a video board per se, but it showed video.
I used to think they showed video on the ceiling of the SuperSonics arena in Seattle
Posted on 5/5/24 at 7:12 pm to Broski
Superdome had video replay in the 70s
Posted on 5/5/24 at 7:17 pm to Broski
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the Superdome had giant projecters hanging from the center of the roof in the 70's. Technically wasn't a video board per se, but it showed video.
Distinctly remember seeing the inside of the Dome for the first time in summer 78. It was after the movie The Savage Bees and I recall looking around in awe from the field wondering what would've happened had those bees escaped to the rafters during filming. Naive youth
Posted on 5/5/24 at 7:38 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
2000 at lsu
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