No one actually cares about Thursday Night time Soccer, however Amazon certain does. After spending $1.3B to air video games this season, they’re making an attempt to amp up the thrill — and that features making ludicrous claims like this one.
Amazon is claiming that it has teamed up with Wilson to create a brand new soccer solely for Thursday Night time Soccer, which is thinner, longer, and purportedly extra aerodynamic. It needs to be famous that that is completely unimaginable. There isn’t any planet during which the NFL would subvert the essential guidelines of soccer measurement and weight to appease a broadcaster, not to mention permit a special soccer for use on Thursday in contrast with Sunday or Monday.
Persevering with this prank, Russell Wilson jumped on board to indicate off the brand new ball with essentially the most preposterous instance doable.
A protected estimate for an NFL sort out dummy is roughly 100 kilos, although they fluctuate enormously. So let’s assume that that is a fair 100 for sake of argument. Russ throws the brand new ball and blasts it off its spot, inflicting it to journey virtually 15 yards downfield.
To ensure that this to be correct the brand new soccer would wish to generate roughly 500N of power on the level of contact, and that’s not making an allowance for the friction coefficient with the bottom, or the gap it travels — frankly as a result of I suck at math. That stated, to knock the dummy over in any respect it could require Russell Wilson to throw a 15 ounce soccer at roughly 64 mph. It might take a lot, far more than that to throw the dummy again prefer it had been hit with a cannon.
Throw velocity isn’t one thing that’s sometimes measured within the NFL, however Drew Brees was clocked at 52 mph in an episode of Sports activities Science, and Patrick Mahomes allegedly hit 60 mph on the 2017 mix, the quickest ever recorded.
So yeah, that is absolute B.S. I don’t perceive why anybody would think about this was enjoyable or thrilling. It’s simply dumb.
