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I played soccer for years and years. But I'm not going to even pretend that translates into kicking an oblong ball through an upright 40 yards away in 50 mile an hour winds.

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 7136697)

I played soccer for years and years. But I'm not going to even pretend that translates into kicking an oblong ball through an upright 40 yards away in 50 mile an hour winds.

I played kick ball in grade school and I used to toss fistfuls of dirt and gravel into the air before it was my turn to kick. No, not because I was measuring the wind, just because it was fun.

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 7136697)

I played soccer for years and years. But I'm not going to even pretend that translates into kicking an oblong ball through an upright 40 yards away in 50 mile an hour winds.

The shape factors in some areas of techniques of kicking. Putting the ball is a very basic consideration regardless of shape.

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Originally Posted by patteeu (Post 7136685)

Ask Frankie. He's a kicking expert.

A basic idea does not an expert make. As such I never claimed to be one. But I played Soccer for years and coached it a few years more. Experienced, yes. Expert, is something you want to say just to be cute.

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Originally Posted by Frankie (Post 7136534)

Not totally true. If it's not a swirling type of wind it all goes in the same direction. I scored more than a few direct goals from the corner spot using that strategy. I really did.

Now you could have argued that the wind at Arrowhead was gusting and swirling. Your argument would have had more credibility.

Wrong. Wind 40 feet up is most definitely different. Particularly INSIDE a structure. Crawl on your roof on any day when there is a little breeze and tell me it is different.

And you don't need grass, you can just turn and feel the wind on your face.
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Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 7137927)

Or just look at the streamer thingies on the goal posts...that's what they are there for.

And speaking as someone who has spent a great deal of his life working on ladders and roofs, I can attest that the wind can be different even 10-15 feet off of the ground.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 7136467)

Well, I thought about that too. I think it's because the east end is where Succop was kicking all his warm up FGs during halftime. I think since that's the side he warmed up on, he may have wanted to kick that direction. Or, maybe the coaches didn't even think about it. Who knows? Plus, you can't tell when the wind is going to gust. The kick he missed got pushed like crazy. The winning kick went left too, but I don't think it went left as severely as the first kick. Just one of those things. Also, he was closer on the second kick than the first.

If I read Haley's presser remarks yesterday correctly, what you said here is pretty much spot on. I also think we have to thank the wind a little bit on Buffalo's miss going the other direction. Even though it was an ugly kick, it looked like it was going to sneak just inside the right upright, and at the last possible moment, the wind pushed it hard right into the upright. The previous kick that Haley called the TO on though, the wind did not seem to have any effect on at all. Tough conditions for a kicker Sundy all the way around.

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Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 7137927)

Wrong. Wind 40 feet up is most definitely different.

In strength, not really in direction, if it's a directional wind as oppesed to a swirling type.

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Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 7137927)

And you don't need grass, you can just turn and feel the wind on your face.
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I did not say he should do the grass test. I said I did it. I was talking about having an understanding of how wind affects balls in the air. NFL kickers have the benefit of the flags at the top of goal posts. They do not need to throw grass up or to try to feel the wind on their face.