As I was working during the time of the New York Jets Playoff game on Saturday January 9th, 2010 (working on the computer that is) I decided to experiment with Google’s Realtime feature and a query of New York Jets. Of course I could have turned on the radio or streamed video of the game but I wanted an apparently less intrusive medium.
Real Time News New York Jet's playoff 2010


The screenshot is a point in time during the second quarter. I was impressed with the performance of the stream , most of it coming from twitter of course but also interspersed with a few from Blog/WebSites (Yahoo Sports). It wasn’t realtime as listening to it on radio or watching it on Television but it had it’s own charm as apparently most of the “tweets” were from New York Jet fans which was gratifying. The stream actually had the unintended result of ripping me from my concentration on work and plopping me in front of the Television to watch the remainder of the game in the conventional way. Listening to the broadcast with the un-biased play by play and color commentators I longed for the pure biased passion of the people who were inadvertently part of the realtime stream. There has to be a marriage somewhere in this. Watching sports is an emotional event whether you are rooting for your own team, rooting against a team you dislike, or just have money riding on the outcome (probably the most emotional circumstance).