The NFL can’t stop calling Microsoft Surface an iPad

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Patriots coach Bill Belichick on the sidelines with an 'iPad.'
Patriots coach Bill Belichick on the sidelines with an 'iPad.'
Photo: NBC

Microsoft is paying $400 million this season to make the Surface the official tablet of the NFL but the league’s announcers still can’t stop calling it an iPad.

The 2015 NFL season officially kicked off last night with the first game between the Steelers and the Patriots. After NBC returned from a commercial break, the network showed a shot of Belichick working with one of the many Microsoft Surface tablets that are provided on the sideline, only instead of talking up the league’s Microsoft partnership, announcer Al Michaels commented how Belichick was ‘on his iPad.”

Watch the clip below:

Unfortunately for Microsoft, this is not the first time the NFL has totally forgotten the name of the iPad. Last season the announcers referred to Surface as an ‘iPad-like tablet,’ while Bear’s quarterback Jay Cutler called them ‘knockoff iPads.’

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