Forget the field, watch the soccer match on your PSP

by Kyle Orland { Mar 30th 2007 at 4:45PM }

Back in my day, everyone brought their fancy new transistor radios to the ball game to listen to the play-by-play. And the players people didn't wear their ball caps backwards, like you young'ns today! And Cracker Jack cost only a nickel! And certain folk weren't allowed on the field, dagnabbit!

Well, the times are a-changin', because soon people attending London Arsenal soccer matches will be able to get streaming stats and replays on their PSPs via a program called S.PORT (Back in my day, dots went at the end of sentences, consarnit). The program even allows live streaming of the game, for when you have to go to use the facilities (Back in my day, they weren't called the "facilities." It was called an outhouse, and it smelled awful. But did we complain? Noooooo.)

At this rate, soon you won't even have to go to your local sports stadium to see the game. With all the technology and such these days, I bet someone'll come up with a way to beam images of the game directly into your home, so you can watch from the comfort of your couch. Boy, won't that be something.

Tags: live, PSP, soccer, sports, stadium, stats, stream

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Intentless @ Mar 30th 2007 5:00PM

Seriously is it necessary to post interesting information in a form that is more irritating than entertaining?

JodyAnthony @ Mar 30th 2007 5:03PM

...was that a segregation joke?

AssemblyLineHuman @ Mar 30th 2007 5:09PM

JodyAnthony: We can only hope so.

JodyAnthony @ Mar 30th 2007 5:14PM

then awesome!

Draco @ Mar 30th 2007 5:14PM

That sounds brilliant. why not, if they had that at the hockey games around here, I would rather do that (granted I don't have a PSP) then watch the replays on the 27 inch tv's 200 feet away.

Mr Khan @ Mar 30th 2007 5:18PM

And who says WiFi isn't infinitely useful?

And for those future posters who may try to refute that, think of this: If WiFi's so slow that it's 54 Mbps connection is hampering your Broadband, then i'd like to see your broadband ISP (that's about 35x faster than my DSL)

Jonathan Tran @ Mar 30th 2007 5:26PM

Back in my day you could already watch live sports on your handheld.

IT WAS CALLED SEGA GAME GEAR.

GJ Sony you are about 14 years too late.

Rod Munch @ Mar 30th 2007 5:35PM

I love how its an Arsenal promotional thing, but the pic of it you have shows them losing!

WiNG @ Mar 30th 2007 5:47PM

yes, Game Gear FTW.

Ken Seang @ Mar 30th 2007 5:53PM

"I bet someone'll come up with a way to beam images of the game directly into your home, so you can watch from the comfort of your couch. Boy, won't that be something."

Ummm, its call a T.V.

NeverSage @ Mar 30th 2007 6:15PM

"Back in my day you could already watch live sports on your handheld.

IT WAS CALLED SEGA GAME GEAR."

Wait, what? You could do that? How?

"Ummm, its call a T.V."

...Are you making a sarcastic joke about the sarcastic joke? Or did you just not get it...?

mccomber @ Mar 30th 2007 6:25PM

"'I bet someone'll come up with a way to beam images of the game directly into your home, so you can watch from the comfort of your couch. Boy, won't that be something.'
Ummm, its call a T.V."

Yeah, right, next thing you'll try and convince me that I can hear sounds produced by vibrating paper cones.

Virtua Fanboy @ Mar 30th 2007 7:01PM

You know if the PSP had a second anolog stick w/all these features I would buy one in half a heartbeat. But...

Ryan @ Mar 30th 2007 7:59PM

I remember the days when Soccer stadiums were empty, And Thousands of ppl outside theses stadiums didnt cheer on there teams. But im sure Listening to the radio or word of mouth that there team just scored is much better then this. And replays? thats so 10years ago no one likes thos anymore.

And i remember when news about something thats good wasnt irritating or twisted to make it sound bad.

" "Back in my day you could already watch live sports on your handheld.

IT WAS CALLED SEGA GAME GEAR."

Wait, what? You could do that? How?"

http://www.chronicgames.net/shop/sega-tv-tuner-official-pal-game-gear-item-2891.aspx
(sorry, it's the best link I could find only searching for 2 minutes)