To: Colofornian
This would be a device that has mass — and for a football, significant mass. It will change the physics of the football.
What next?? Why don’t they just play football ??
3 posted on
07/19/2016 12:19:28 PM PDT by
EagleUSA
To: EagleUSA
I’m wondering why do we have umpires calling balls and strikes if you can have a computerized system doing it more accurately?
4 posted on
07/19/2016 12:21:13 PM PDT by
nikos1121
(A Trump presidency will be like The Golden Age of Pericles in Greece)
To: EagleUSA
It’s only 3 grams, given that their allowed variance is 40 grams (410-450) it won’t have any functional change. They are just playing football. They just want to do it better.
9 posted on
07/19/2016 12:27:13 PM PDT by
discostu
(Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
To: EagleUSA
This would be a device that has mass and for a football, significant mass. Nah. An RFID transponder weighs about 1/100th of an ounce. It would respond to a signal from a transmitter somewhere in the end zone...or perhaps at the top of either goal post.
Think of those little white anti-shoplifting gizmos you see inside blister packaging.
To: EagleUSA
What next?? Why dont they just play football ??
Yes. They take this whole thing so damn seriously, as if it really affects the outcomes of people's lives (not counting big gamblers).
The more complez everything gets, the more time outs and possibilities for something to go wrong.
BAN helmet headsets.
BAN guys with radios and iPads watching the game from booth above.
The coaches have to be fast with hand signals, call a time out, shout out a play in code, or ... get this ... let the QB make the calls.
No more replays, bad calls stay called bad.
NO hands used by o-linemen, as in the mid 70s and earlier, as refs cannot see the holding that takes place ALL THE TIME if they don't make it otherwise.
There aren't too many field goals in the NFL, probably fewer than in the '70s, when there were maybe TWO kickers (Ray Guy, Mark Mosely) that were as good as a typical kicker today.
Cut down on the TV commercial timouts. A 60:00 game, with time outs and half-time should take three hours.
etc.
19 posted on
07/19/2016 12:42:50 PM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(VThere's no salvation in politics.)
To: EagleUSA
“This would be a device that has mass and for a football, significant mass. It will change the physics of the football.”
Already used in soccer balls.
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