(If the coaches’ communications system (C2C) or Coach-to-Player communication system (C2P) for one team suffers a total system failure at any point during the game, the other team’s system will be shut off until functionality is restored to the affected team.) C2P technicians test and distribute C2P equipment to each club’s equipment manager. The crew meets the day before kickoff to reviews both teams’ tendencies and any weekly points of emphasis from the Officiating Department.ġ8 hours: Visiting teams traveling by airplane must be in the game city.Ĥ hours: All local game day assistants must arrive at the stadium and begin setting up their respective equipment/systems.ģ hours: Sideline and coaches’ booth technicians test the wireless equipment in each bench area and AudioCom wired equipment in each coaches’ booth. If severe weather is anticipated, officials should arrange to arrive earlier. Any issues with the surface must be fixed, retested and certified prior to game day.Ģ4 hours: Game officials must be in the city in which they are working that week. Three days: The home team tests and certifies that its playing field complies with NFL requirements on hardness, infill depth, evenness and other factors. The coordinator controls frequency-dependent traffic for technology used by media, coaches, players, game officials, medical personnel and others. Seven days: The visiting team's equipment manager works on logistics for their arrival to the stadium, including any special items requests in the locker room.įour days: The wireless coordination contact - assigned by each team’s public relations staff by NFL mandate - directs credentialed media using wireless devices to the league’s local event frequency coordinator. It begins seven days before kickoff and continues through the end of the game. NFL Game Operations maintains a detailed checklist and timeline with specific instructions to make sure everything gets done. Success requires an organized, rigorous system that clearly defines where everyone needs to be, what tasks need to be done, and when they need to be started and completed. They coordinate scheduling and travel for all officials. They coordinate with representatives of the television networks and work with experts who certify that the fields are ready for play. League staff members issue game credentials and parking passes for the NFL game day staff. Ball boys, clock operators, chain crews and sideline helpers.Ī representative from the NFL Football Operations department attends each game to ensure that both teams are complying with league policy and to serve as the communication liaison to the Game Day Operations Center back in New York.Ĭheck out the responsibilities of Gameday Central personnel in New York. Security guards and locker room attendants. Radio-frequency coordinators and technology troubleshooters. The performance takes scores of seemingly unrelated experts performing disparate tasks, all contributing to one goal - a seamlessly executed football game: Medical personnel. NFL Game Operations helps the home team's staff to conduct this symphony. All of the technology - the communications systems for coaches, players and game officials Microsoft Surface tablets coaches’ booth monitors and instant replay and injury video review systems - must all be functional.Īll of the people, cameras and equipment on the field will be in their assigned place, and all of the pregame activity will proceed like clockwork. The locker rooms have to be fully stocked with the same comforts footballs must be properly prepared the playing field has to be certified that it is in compliance with the strict requirements. What they often don’t see are the hundreds of people behind the scenes who appear to effortlessly manage the many moving parts and the massive mix of personnel, technology and equipment. They see the results of this hard work in the action on the field. On-field media coordinators (provided by each club)Īnd that’s what fans get - week after week, season after season.Cutoff switch operator (for coach-to-player communications).
Coach-to-Coach communication technicians.
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