July 25, 2006
I Am Not A Number - Soccer Players Being Implanted With RFID?
With the RFID trials at Germany's World Cup soccer event a great success, RFID is being considered for many more uses in soccer, and sports in general. In the recent past, this has included chipping soccer balls for a more reliable way to settle goal disputes and fouls. Another RFID application being considered is player security.
Soccer/ football fans take note: I have nothing against soccer. In fact, the great Pele, who played for the New York Cosmos was my fave player before he was a Cosmo. His graceful acrobatics were breathtaking and unequalled. In my opinion, there's been no one like him. And then there's gut-bustingly funny Monty Python soccer sketch (embedded video page).
But there's something about the sport that induces insanity in some of its fans, to an extreme level. It's not just the stadium riots, which apparently are only equalled by opera and The Who fans. Suppposedly, footballers are being kidnapped in South America. So England's Manchester United soccer team's management is considering implanting RFID tags in their star players.
Can you imagine the contract wording? Well, at least team management can't use RFID to make sure you're not an SUV-driving, pr0n-watching, mstrbating Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player.
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