Instead of squinting at linesmen, chains and poles, home viewers could see a computer-generated yellow stripe across the field, marking the line that the offensive team had to cross to make a first down.
As they returned to Germany, they were caught by Swiss border guards attempting to make a second illegal border crossing.
For nearly 80 years the case has been made for a third crossing over Lake Lothing in Lowestoft, but requests to governments of all persuasions have fallen on deaf ears.
A first crossing experiment was made in the laboratory in 2007 between a female B. balearicus (Si 41, pop. 11) and a male B. siculus (Si 11, pop. 22), from which 200 F1-hybrid tadpoles were raised.
Departing at the end of the year, Sir Ranulph will lead a team of six explorers, including Brian Newham, Ian Prickett and Spencer Smirl, to make the first crossing of the continent of Antarctica during the Antarctic winter.
On Dec. 5, 1914, Shackleton, on his ship the Endurance, with a crew of 27, departed Grytviken for Antarctica, planning to make the first crossing of the Antarctic continent.
If you're staying on the American side, make your first crossing now.
L ast year's exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History entitled "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" chronicled the 1914 voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton, who tried to make the first crossing of Antarctica.
They include a Blériot XI (a French plane of the type that made the first crossing of the English Channel in 1909); a Sopwith Camel and Tabloid, a Vickers FB5 Gunbus, and a de Havilland DH9A (examples of World War I airplanes); all the principal British and German aircraft of World War II; and a number of prototypes, as well as contemporary military aircraft.
Shackleton and five others sailed 800 miles (1,300 km) to South Georgia in a whale boat and then made the first crossing of the island, to seek aid.
