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From Wickets to Uprights: The History of the Scoreboard We've had electronic stadium scoreboards for over a century, but the evolution keeps growing bigger and brighter. BY: Tim Newcomb
The new NFL stadium in Inglewood, California, has a scoreboard that's as long as the field itself.
Coming in at 120 yards long, this digital 4K LED scoreboard hovering over the field is 70,000 square feet of screen on a 2.2-million-pound board. This structure was so big that architects incorporated it into the engineering to stabilize the stadium roof. And with 80 million pixels worth of screen on both sides of this oculus-shaped structure, the SoFi Stadium's scoreboard is officially the largest in the world.
While stadiums have been a common feature of civilization, the history of scoreboards is a trickier story to tell. In Ancient Greece—in fact, the word "stadium" means a unit of measurement equaling 185 meters—there's little evidence that the world's first olympics featured scoreboards of any kind. Historical accounts of other sporting venues, from the Roman Colosseum to various medieval jousting lists, never mention any sort of scoreboard.
Instead, the SoFi is the culmination of scoreboard engineering that stretches back to the mid-1800s.
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From Wickets to Uprights: The History of the Scoreboard
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