<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;"> <div style="font-weight:normal;font-size:15px;" style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~3/OJvQcfO4BPM/" target="_blank">NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers give iPad 2s to players</a><BR><i>[ Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:52:19 PDT ]</i><BR><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20097552-1/nfls-tampa-bay-buccaneers-give-ipad-2s-to-players/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=image"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/08/25/raheem_700x500.PNG" alt="" /></a></div>

<p class="image-caption">Soon Bucs coach Raheem Morris may be able to ditch the old 3-ring binder and call plays from a team iPad 2.</p>
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<p>The unexpected practical uses for iPads seem to be multiplying each day. Earlier this month, United Airlines announced it would be purchasing thousands of the tablets to move toward a <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20095941-248/united-airlines-switching-to-ipads-in-the-cockpit/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=embed">paperless flight deck</a>, downloading flight manuals and more onto the iPads.
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Then today, we got word that the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers is buying an iPad 2 for each of its players, to be loaded with the team's playbook and game videos to study. Somewhere, loggers and paper companies are surely cursing Steve Jobs while timber forests are enjoying the reprieve.</p>
<p>Traditionally, teams from high school level up to the pros have spent countless hours in darkened rooms watching video from past games and game footage from other teams in preparation for game day. A new tradition may instead involve a roomful of gigantic men staring down at tiny tablet computers.</p>
<p>"It's crazy how much technology has changed the game," second-year safety Cody Grimm told the <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article1187879.ece">St. Petersburg Times</a>. "Stuff that we used to come in here to see, we can sit on our couch at home... <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20097552-1/nfls-tampa-bay-buccaneers-give-ipad-2s-to-players/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=readMore">[Read more]</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~4/OJvQcfO4BPM" height="1" width="1"/>
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