Two of my great loves are science and football. There is no science better than football science. The linked Wired.com article suggests a scientific explanation for something football fans have always known: you can't trust a kicker.
The extremely profitable, multi-billion dollar NFL attracts a lot of scientists, especially the ones desperately seeking tenure, in order to grab an easy journal publication by studying the players and strategies of the United States' most popular sporting event. Or they're like me and they're obsessed with the game and trying to pull that obsession into the lab. I don't blame them. I'd rather be standing on the practice field bullshitting with a few kickers around the league than in some dark lab watching an infrared laser bounce off some mirrors.
I wouldn't mind doing a scientific study trying to find a link between having Ray Lewis stare you down and immediately pissing oneself and sacrificing a defensive touchdown.
Or a link between playing the Broncos and asking yourself: "How the fuck did we just lose to the Broncos?!"
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