Super Bowl 2012 Live Stream: NFL Sets New Standard in Sports Technology

This year, viewers will be able to watch the Super Bowl anywhere.

The NFL is making it so you can stream the game to any Verizon device or through NBCSports.com.

While it would probably be nicer and easier to watch on a large-screen TV or at a sports bar, you now have other options.

This is the first time the NFL is making this possible, and this is a huge step for sports technology.

The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in the United States. Now, it's setting a precedent for ways to watch it. Other sports should take note.

A live stream on phones may not be necessary, but it's a very cool experiment. Assuming this works well, phones will become even more complete.

Other sports may start taking their technology to the next level. The NBA is pretty technologically advanced, and they could start making this movement for big events.

Obviously, nothing is quite as big as the Super Bowl, but other sports could start going it.

As that happens, every game could start being streaming to phones.

Therefore, as we move forward, technology will continue to go into uncharted territory. Soon, TVs might not even be the most common viewing source.

Sure, it will be the most optimal for the foreseeable future (I won't guarantee anything with technology), but it won't be the most convenient. That's the most important thing.

The Super Bowl will be streamed to phones and computers, and that's an incredible precedent to set. It will encourage other sports to become more technologically adept, and it could be showing us the future of watching sports.