The point of this de facto tagline is that you can use the Wilson X football in the smallest of spaces and still be able to recreate those big game moments. You may be stuck at the office, but that doesn’t mean you can’t throw a Hail Mary pass to your co-worker that wins the Super Bowl.

Playing football in a 3,000 square foot room is not easy. That’s less than 10 percent the size of a football field, and considerably smaller than a backyard or a driveway. But that was entirely the point when Wilson Sporting Goods picked Lightbox, a swanky event space on Manhattan’s west side, to preview the company’s newest product, the Wilson X Connected Football. The company was trying to say that with this ball — which goes on sale September 8th for $199 — and the accompanying app experience, the "stadium is everywhere."

"You guys just changed the game of football." It’s something football fans dream about all the time, except with this football, that dream won’t just be in your head. You’ll also be able to watch it unfold in the app, and the whole experience will be backed up by some impressive statistics about just how awesome (or awful) your throw was, numbers that Wilson says no one — not even the pros — has ever had access to, especially in such an immediate way. "You guys just changed the game of football," Gus Johnson, veteran sportscaster, says to the Wilson X team on his way out of Lightbox. Johnson is the voice of the app that comes with the Wilson X football, so he’s probably a bit biased. But that doesn’t mean he’s wrong. "I’m there every week, for 25 years, and I know how these coaches obsess over numbers and how they want as much information as they can possibly get," he says. "You just made everybody’s job really easy for the most important position in the most popular game in our country."

The new football is similar in a lot of ways to the smart basketball that Wilson released last year. It has sensors inside (mostly accelerometers; Wilson says gyroscopes are too power-hungry for a product like this), and it uses Bluetooth to send that data to an app on your phone. You don’t have to charge the ball, either. Kevin Murphy, Wilson’s general manager of team sports, says it will last for over 200,000 throws, equivalent to 500 hours of continuously throwing the ball. It can pull this off because, like the basketball, the sensors are in a sleep state most of the time; you "wake" them up by performing a unique motion, holding the ball up on end for two seconds and then flipping and repeating that process. (This way the ball won’t turn on in your bag or your trunk and run the battery dry before you ever get to try it.) That’s where the similarities end, though. While the new app looks similar to the one for the basketball, it represents a big step forward for what Wilson wants to do with these products. You can see it from the moment you open it up: the menu screen features a live ticker at the bottom that shows what your friends have been doing with their footballs, and on the right is an avatar that you can customize with actual NFL logos and jerseys. Wilson’s long-standing partnership with the NFL is a huge advantage here — countless football-related video games and franchises have flopped over the years because of the NFL’s vice grip on its intellectual property has forced fans to play as fake teams like the "New York Knights." It’s a big deal for hooking players into the system. The app features real NFL teams and logos The new app also has game modes like the last one did, but they’re richer experiences this time around. There’s a mode that simulates a full game between two teams, and one called "Final Drive," which lets you play out the dramatic final march down the field that happens so often in football. And, because of the licensing deal, you can pick the team you’re playing against in each of these modes. Each team has different ratings for things like offense, defense, and special teams, and the software will make it harder or easier for you based on who you play against. But the Wilson X football is really all about the tech that’s in the ball, and the variety of stats it can populate in the app. It makes the basketball look like a glorified scorekeeping tool. From just one throw, the app can tell you the football’s peak velocity, an estimate of how far it traveled, the spin rate (in RPM) of the ball, and the "spiral efficiency." The app also takes all of these numbers and creates a composite score for each throw, similar to the NFL’s "passer rating" statistic for quarterbacks. "You know, they say ‘he throws a really tight ball,’ but they’ve never been able to put a number to that," Johnson says. "Today we’re able to put a number to that."