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Microsoft (MSFT) provided Surface tablets to the NFL teams that played in Sunday’s exhibition football game in Canton, Ohio. It hoped coaches and players would use the devices to study game-play photos on color screens instead of black-and-white printouts. But some players and coaches opted to punt and use the old standby paper copies instead of the newfangled interactive device. During the broadcast, players could be seen flipping through paper printouts of game action. Microsoft’s Surface is the official tablet of the NFL, a title it bought last year in a $400 million, five-year partnership with the league. Sunday’s preseason game between the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills was the first time the NFL has used the Surface tablets. Bills coach Doug Marrone told the Associated Press that his tablet didn’t work for the first half of the game. For others, old habits seemed to die hard, with some… Scalper1 News
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