The NFL’s 6 Most High-tech Stadiums for Sports-minded Geeks

The roar of the crowd! The excitement of a 3rd down conversion! A hail Mary pass to the end zone to win the game! There is nothing like being in a NFL stadium on a football Sunday. But nowadays, football stadiums are competing with the couch. See how these 6 awesome stadia are enriching the fan experience with some of the geekiest tech around. Does your beloved stadium make the cut?

6. Nissan Stadium – Tennessee Titans

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Nissan Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans, is located in Nashville TN. The stadium partners with Comcast to bring the fans free high-speed WiFI access, plus a mobile app with news, video, and exclusive views. Plus that sweet sweet Red Zone Channel so you can stay up to date on how your Fantasy team is doing.

5. Sun Life Stadium – Miami Dolphins

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Newly upgraded Sun Life Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins, makes the list due to IBM-powered intelligence. Their partnership with the Big Data company affords staff with realtime information about visitor traffic, parking, sales and spending preferences, concessions planning, weather, and social media sentiment, along with fan-centered experiences like scores, stats, and all-important WiFI access.

4. University of Phoenix – Arizona Cardinals

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Home to the Arizona Cardinals, University of Phoenix Stadium boasts a retractable natural grass field. Yes, that's right— retractable roofs are old news. The technology rolls out the entire field on a conveyer belt through a 200' wide opening in the stadium, a process that takes just over an hour. Fans can enjoy new LED video boards and free high speed WiFi upgraded in partnership with CDW.

3. Gillette Stadium - New England Patriots

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Gillette Stadium of Foxborough, Mass, was the first NFL stadium to offer free WiFi access to fans. Other geek-friendly offerings include a connected app for pre-ordering food, checking restaurant wait times, watching Red Zone Channel, and not-to-miss video features like instant replay and exclusive camera angles.

2. AT&T Stadium – Dallas Cowboys

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AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, is nicknamed "Jerry's World" who believes bigger is better. The stadium is massive, and has a massive 130-ft Jumbotron to match. Since they unveiled their Jumbotron, they've added many more technology and video upgrades with AT&T, including a new 130-ft rotating video screen with an interactive app to upload photos during games.

1. Levi’s Stadium – San Francisco 49ers

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In Silicon Valley technology is king. And the same is true for Levi's Stadium of Santa Clara CA home of the San Francisco 49ers. Comcast built out the network with multiple 10-gigabit ethernet cables and 400 miles of fiber-optic cable ensuring the fastest WiFi possible, and in many cases faster than you could expect at home. The Stadium is LEED Gold-certified with solar cells by NRG that generate power on roofs and pedestrian bridges and bathrooms that use reclaimed water-- the field is watered with reused water too. Technology and development partnerships here are a who's who including Yahoo, Google, Twitter, and Facebook. Fans enjoy mobile ticketing and giant video screens with a total of 5.2 million pixels each with better resolution than most HD home TVs. No high-tech stadium would be complete without a high-tech mobile app and Levi's Stadium is no exception-- the app facilitates food-ordering, concession pick up, video features, camera angles, replays, bathroom lines, parking, and stats & scores.