WASHINGTON — Starting this fall, the NFL will retire the use of chain crews to measure for first downs in favor of camera-based technology that can determine the distance automatically, the league ...

The National Football League is replacing its on-field "chain gang" crew with a new innovative technology to decide ball placement and first downs during games next season. During the league's annual ...

Goodbye, chain gang. Hello, technology. The NFL will make a 21st century approach to its first down measurement system for the 2025 season, getting rid of the chain gang and instead going with a ...

How do you measure the environmental impact of a product? Is it simply how long it exists before it decomposes or how much energy it takes to produce it? Who is responsible for that impact: the one ...

The NFL is planning to modernize the first down measurement system in 2025, league football operations representatives said on Wednesday. Beginning in the 2025 season, the NFL will use Hawk-Eye ...

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