SportsPants

Let's see ... there was color television. Then remote controls. Then cable. Then VCRs. Then satellite. Then surround sound and home theaters. Then DVRs. Then high def and plasma.

Now it seems we're hitting the next level of staying home and watching the game with 3-D televisions. Right now the TVs are in the infancy and I can tell you from experience, the Dallas Cowboys' experiment with the 3-D super screen was an unmitigated disaster.

Apparently though, these new televisions will be the wave of the future. You just come home, flip on your theater system, put on some glasses and gaze at the greatness. It's like looking through a window according to people who've used it.

Is there a point in the near future where people will just stop going to games? I know you can never quite make up the game atmosphere at your home, but if you have a 3-D giant television and kick-ass surround sound, do you want to fight the traffic and pay $8 for a beer every week? What if you can bring you friends over and be guaranteed that none of them will spend the game loudly giving their retarded opinion of every play or spilling beer down your back?

Sounds kind of cool. Maybe teams will even be forced to lower ticket prices in order to compete.

Then we'll get some funky technology that lets you act like your in the movie Tron and get literally sucked into your television to participate in the game yourself. But that's at least two or three down the road. I wouldn't expect that too soon.

So get ready for some 3-D TV. But relax with the porn, it may be 3-D, but it's still only television. Don't be the creepy guy.

Read more of Brad Seal at the original "SportsPants" blog.