For those that don't know, I'm an American living temporarily in Australia.  Back in the US I wasn't much of a sports watcher, always finding something else to do on Sunday afternoons.  Although, I did watch the occasional football (American football that is) on tv.  Since being in Australia, I found I am taking more of an interest in watching some sports.  I've come to like learning and watching Cricket and Australian Football.  And have just started on Aussie rules rugby.  The seasons have ended, though.  I also have taken more of interest in the NFL, and follow the season regularly.  Being from Colorado, I naturally am drawn to the Broncos.  They had a pretty exciting sunday game (9-oct-2009), which we caught this Monday AM.  Unfortunately, unlike the rest of Australia (at least the major cities), Darwin does not get the game.  We watched NFL's game center application, and listened online to KOA.  Now to the actual point of this entry, as fascinated as my sports watching habits are.  If you have not seen the Game Center app you should really check it out, even if you are not a football fan.  Essentially it is an spatio-temporal infovis of the game, where time is along the vertical axis and space (distance) is on the horizontal axis.  As the time of the game progresses, the bars move vertically, past game plays fading out as they become further from the bottom.  It is a really well made application and kept us up-to-date on the plays.  Ironically it was the radio broadcast that was delayed, and not the app.  There are two views as well, side and top.  The side view further classifies the bars into passes and runs.  The length of the bar is the distance of the completed pass, run length, or attempted pass.  Anyway, it is worth checking out, especially if you are a geonerd like myself and instead of focusing on the game you drool over the infographic.

Side View 

Top View