Super Bowl 2012: Tech Marches On [COMIC]

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As you watch Super Bowl 2012 (on NBC tonight at 6:30 p.m. EST), notice how high technology continues to ease its way into your favorite weekend NFL smackdowns.

There's instant replay, sophisticated communications equipment, spectacular camera rigs and super slow motion technology, and there's even talk of the NFL adopting high-tech football helmets with a Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS), letting doctors monitor the condition of the human brain as the game is played.

However, too many human beings are being injured in the process of slamming into each other at high speed, so perhaps someday there will be a solution to all of the grisly casualties that occur on the gridiron.

That's where our editor-in-chief and chief cartoonist Lance Ulanoff steps in with his own unique solution.