I find this interesting and disturbing. It doesn’t say outside of the headline that the NFL made the declaration that it hit a wire, and even say:
We have some finality to Will Reichard’s mysterious field goal miss last week that appeared to hit a camera wire… kind of.
What does “kind of” mean? That it “kind of” looked like it hit a wire (which I agree with) or the NFL determined that it did “kind of” hit it?
If after further review they determine that it hit a wire, they have to fix that. There should never, ever be an obstacle in the path of a football on its way to the goalposts unless it’s a defender’s glove. This is serious. If those wires are in any way able to deflect a ball they have to go. It makes the NFL look like bumbling amateurs otherwise.
I suspect the Skycam in Hotspur Stadium was temporary (Premier League has its own proprietary camera systems), and I wonder if they just screwed up its implementation. Presumably the NFL was there helping them, though?
In the Things That Make You Feel Really Old department:
Andy Reid was asked about the recent resurgence of Travis Kelce. He responded with “We’ve been giving him a lot of Geritol…”
Later, on the Kelce brothers podcast, neither of them knew what Geritol was.
“Geritol? Is that an aging thing?” Jason asked.
“What is Geritol?” Travis said. “Yeah, look this up.”
“It’s got to be something with old people,” Jason said.
“It’s like from the ‘70s or something,” Travis said.
Link to Kansas City Star column
Tonight’s matchup between the two geriatric quarterbacks, Rodgers and Flacco, is not the oldest quarterback matchup in NFL history. Rodgers and Flacco, at 41 and 40, are a combined 81 years old. In 2020, Tom Brady and Drew Brees were a combined 84 years old when they met twice in the regular season, and then 85 when they met in the playoffs.
Brings a new meaning to Senior Bowl.