Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl & TatWza

Steve Jobs changed the Super Bowl, too. He changed everything, didn’t he? He changed the way we look at sports and continues to do it now, even after he died Wednesday.

It started with the Super Bowl in 1984, when Jobs went against the advice of Apple’s board and ran a 60-second movie-quality commercial, playing off George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” to help introduce his new Macintosh home computer. They didn’t have commercials like that before.

He changed the technological world for sure. But maybe people don’t realize how many things he really touched. That commercial was an iconic sports moment in this country.

A computer commercial was a sports moment? That’s right. The Super Bowl is our most important sporting event, and TV is the way we watch it. Jobs changed the way we take it in, made it more of an event by introducing an era of big Super Bowl commercials.

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