Allstate Goalpost Net

Allstate was too cheap to sponsor both ends.

Keep costs down

The fans in the south endzone won't throw the ball out of the stadium.

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Serious answer...at each stadium they figure out where the end zone camera is and put the AllState net up on the opposite end, so that when someone is watching on TV they can clearly see "AllState" on FG attempts toward that goal. If you put the net on the goal in the other end zone, AllState appears backwards to the viewer.

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Wut?


Do they not have a camera for each end zone?

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Do they not have a camera for each end zone?

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You don't watch football on TV??

Pretty much any game you see on TV has one end zone camera that is used for FG/PAT kicks. Sometimes the kick comes toward the camera...sometimes it is away from the camera...depending on which goalpost the team is kicking toward.

In Tiger Stadium, currently, they used the South end zone camera on TV games. When a FG is being attempted toward the student section, the ball is being kicked away from the camera...FG attempts in the South end zone come toward the camera.

Used to be the other way around years ago.

I watch plenty on tv, but I attend LSU home games


I was talking about football in general I guess

There is really no reason they can't have a camera in the NEZ anyway. Pretty sure I've seen one right underneath the scoreboard for certain telecasts

There's a place for cameras now, but i guess they may not use it for the FG shots for whatever unknown reason

My buddy and I said the same thing whenever they showed that number on a game week 1.

I mean, obviously, $3.4 million is a big amount, but they could cut a check for the same size right now and not blink an eye.

They should start donating more for longer field goals or something.