Virginia Tech and Tennessee were already set to play a football game next season at 160,000 seat Bristol Motor Speedway. Now, East Tennessee State is going to play Western Carolina there, too.

All of it will happen underneath an enormous video board that closely resembles an alien hovercraft:

(Rendering from NASCAR via the Bristol Motor Speedway.)

As NASCAR aptly describes it, "This isn't your father's video board."

Each custom-built screen adorning the four sides of the display is approximately 30 feet tall and 63 feet wide, or twice as high and nearly three times as wide as the video displays atop the scoring pylon currently in the BMS infield. And with nearly 54 million LEDs and 18 million pixels, the picture quality is expected to exceed that of large-scale outdoor displays seen in Times Square.

This is marvelous.

Bristol is getting a lot bigger than its already big self, and we can't pretend that a football field underneath a massive, suspended video board that looks like it's hanging in mid-air won't be neat. That video board is positively wondrous, so long as it doesn't fall or knock down punts. It might be worth the price of admission on its own.

Football on a racetrack might have some practical shortcomings. There could be a whole lot of empty seats, and it's unlikely the sunset looks as good in reality as it does in that sketch.

Fans will be miles away from the action, too, but when you've got a video screen like that, who cares?