NFL to show footage from locker rooms in stadiums during games

The NFL is attempting to bring the allure of a live-game experience back to stadiums in a most peculiar way.

USA TODAY Sports has confirmed earlier reports that cameras will be placed into all home team locker rooms with selected footage aired inside stadiums. Use of the cameras is mandatory NFL spokesman Greg Aiello confirmed, and no team will be exempt from airing footage.

Pulling the curtain back on the most intimate of team settings is an interesting move by the NFL. As television broadcasts continue to improve, along with the quality of in-home televisions, the league is forced to invent new incentives to drive crowds to games in person.

However, will the promise of locker room cameras convince fans to pay up and head out? It's a gamble made previously by the XFL, which brought cameras into its locker rooms during the league's inaugural 2000 season. The XFL ceased to exist in 2001.

Roger Goodell has spoken about the need to drive fans back to the live-game experience for several years, noting the drop in atmosphere as a result of dwindling crowds.

As ticket prices continue to soar, is this the best remedy Goodell and the NFL can offer to fans who would consider spending their disposable income on a ticket? When television broadcasts already show player interaction before, during, and after games, a view into a locker room does little to inspire excitement for the stadium experience.