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On Sep 11, 2014, at 1:34 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote:

> From Slashdot:
> 
> Prior to the season, Microsoft and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal 
> with one of the major components being that the Microsoft Surface would 
> become "the official tablet of the NFL," with coaches and players using the 
> Surface on the sidelines during games. But Microsoft and the league ran into 
> a problem during week one of the season when television announcers mistakenly 
> referred to the tablets as iPads, giving a huge rival some unexpected 
> exposure. The biggest blunder for the league came during the nationally 
> televised Monday Night Football game when ESPN's Trent Dilfer joked about how 
> long it took Cardinals assistant head coach Tom Moore to "learn how to use 
> the iPad to scroll through the pictures." In a separate incident, Drew Brees 
> of the New Orleans Saints was spotted by Fox commentator John Lynch using a 
> Surface on the sideline. Lynch remarked that Brees was "not watching movies 
> on his iPad."
> 
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