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stillers4me
06-18-2015, 05:06 PM
Steelers receiver Antonio Brown teamed up with ESPN's Sports Science to set a world record. To be fair, no one was really competing with Brown for this record, but it's an impressive feat nonetheless.


In order to do this, Sports Science dropped the football using a drone. The world-record height is about four times higher than a normal punt, and the ball can move up to 2 feet per second with just 10 mph of wind. Brown attempted to catch a football from 360 feet. He attempted it multiple times last year when he was on the show, but failed.


A year removed from failure, Brown was ready to try again..................


http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015-06-18/antonio-brown-world-record-catch-video-steelers-receiver-drone-?eadid=SOC%2FFB%2FSNMain

hawaiiansteeler
06-18-2015, 05:35 PM
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fansince'76
06-18-2015, 05:35 PM
According to the video, the ball can reach a maximum velocity of over 80 mph. Imagine trying to catch a ball falling from the sky at 80 mph.

Sounds like an injury risk to me, especially when pro QBs are hard pressed to even throw it at 60 MPH (http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/how-fast-football-throw-nfl-combine-logan-thomas).

If he winds up with (a) broken finger(s) from doing stuff like this, I'm gonna be pissed. I realize he has a life to live off the field, but there's something to be said about not tempting fate as well.

Count Steeler
06-18-2015, 08:59 PM
What was the PSI of the football?

st33lersguy
06-18-2015, 09:07 PM
AB is the man. Glad he is on our team

86WARD
06-18-2015, 10:10 PM
What was the PSI of the football?

Well it varies with altitude and temperature and speed and amount of light and wind and so much more so it's hard to say...