The ESPN-managed SEC Network broadcast the Kentucky-Georgia football game today (October 4) using the Skycast feature of ESPN’s Megacast technologies. I really believe this is a great way to watch any football game.

I recall watching it during last year’s college football playoffs. The experience is very different from a normal game presentation. No announcers blather along with play-by-play or inject excruciating analysis. The only chatter you hear is stadium announcements and the referee’s calls over the stadium PA systems.

The view is from over the field and the camera often lowers its view directly into or behind plays. This allows a totally different perspective as the game is played. In one play today, Georgia QB Gunner Stockton’s pass was picked off by a Kentucky defensive back so cleanly, it made you wonder why threw it at all, based on your view of the throw from behind.

Today’s game included commercials, as expected. But I recall that game last season actually didn’t go to commercials. Instead, the camera remained live and just panned around the field and the stadium during the breaks. The experience was more cinema veritè than Saturday afternoon college football.

I know this is a dream, but it sure would be an awesome thing if the NFL adopted something like this and actually made it available (for free, preferably) as an alternate feed that viewers could choose. Knowing the currency-printing machine that is the NFL, if they did offer this, it would be monetized and sold in some package. If they can make money off it, that’s what will happen. But I suppose I can continue to hope.