sparklines on espn

it looks like espn is using a sparkline-esque element on their nlf scoreboard page. i wish i would have known about this earlier so i could have gotten screen caps of various games going on simultaneously, but i only got them for tonight's sunday night game.

so here's a pic showing a moment in time in a patriots drive. the arrow begins at their starting field position, and there's a yellow line showing where the first down marker is. perhaps they should incorporate the down and distance into the graphic (somehow) as well, but currently it is done via text.



and then, the sparkline turns red when the team is in the red-zone: