![]() ![]() In 2017, he was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Honey, who graduated from Yale and attended Stanford for graduate school, is now a member of three different Halls of Fame. In addition to the yellow line, Honey was also behind the creation of a baseball pitch-tracking technology called "K-Zone," a NASCAR driver-tracking technology called "RACEf/x" and a race boat-tracking technology called "Live Line." He owns 31 patents in television graphics and tracking technology, according to the National Inventors Hall of Fame website. He speaks the language of production people and engineers equally well. But here’s the key: putting aside his tremendous intellect, he’s a great project leader. “Stan was, of course, the lead technology person behind all these enhancements. If these powerful new systems could help the viewer understand their sport better, we were all-in," Drake said, per Sports Video Group. "We knew early on at ESPN that technology could help differentiate our presentation from our competitors. Last year, former ESPN executive Jed Drake detailed the impact Honey had on the network and its live broadcasts. It is immediately recognizable to not just professional football fans, but also college football fans who lean on it just as heavily during their games. While much of the in-game graphics are tweaked by the NFL's broadcast partners every year, the yellow first-down line is one graphic that has gone largely untouched since its conception. Here is a screen capture featuring Honey's yellow line during a playoff game between the Bengals and Houston Texans after the 2011 NFL season. 27, 1998, according to the National Inventors Hall of Fame official website, which also hails his invention as "one of the most important developments in sports broadcast technology since the debut of instant replay in 1963." Honey and his company Sportvision rolled out the "Virtual Yellow 1st & 10" line for a game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens on ESPN on Sept. Stan Honey, the guy who invented the yellow first-down marker you see every time you turn on an NFL game, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame with the Class of 2018. ![]()
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