Ten Things About Today's Game

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by patteeu

The wind at head level isn't as important as the wind at 40 ft in the air.

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.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Frankie

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.

I didn't have to argue that the winds were swirling because everyone (but you, apparently) already knew that. If you didn't get it from the CBS broadcast, you could have read it in gblowfish's post earlier in this thread:

Originally Posted by gblowfish

The wind was swirling the whole game. And what is weird is, sometimes the flags by the big scoreboard will be fairly still, but the streamers on the goalposts are waving like crazy. You could see the wind whipping the ref's zebra shirts all day.

The kick they passed up was pointing to the west end zone (under the big scoreboard). The winning kick was east, towards the little scoreboard. Also in OT, they picked defending the west goal. I think Succop wanted to kick to the east end zone. During halftime he was warming up kicking at the east goalposts.

Duh.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Frankie

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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[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

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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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.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

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.

Originally Posted by Buehler445

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.