Comment by ilamont

> This was presumably because Microsoft and the NFL had a deal where everyone on the sidelines were using Surfaces and they thought it was a good idea.

Everyone except Bill Belichick, who famously hurled his Microsoft Surface to the ground when he was first forced to use it:

https://youtu.be/djB2xgALGfI?si=xX-hMibm9OLLAJZ4&t=10