Gallery: Behind the Scenes of the Internet's First Football Game

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    The Yahoo Studios control room, just before gametime.
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    The Fantasy Football Live crew hosted the pre-game show for the Jaguars-Bills game.
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    Brad Evans and Andy Behrens talk fantasy.
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    Shaun King and Kirk Morrison, after the Fantasy Football Live pregame show.
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    Shaun King and Brad Evans talking football. This was presumably after good things happened for the Jaguars.
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    Larry Beil, who led the fantasy broadcast.
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    Reps from most teams at Yahoo sat in a room together during the game, providing constant status updates.
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    During the game itself, most of Yahoo's job was to make sure the stream stayed up.
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    Adam Cahan, Yahoo's SVP of mobile and emerging products.
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