Dash of Doubt: Truth about 40 times?

[jwinslow]

 

[RugbyBuck]

SPLASH!

 

[OH10]

This has been said many times before, but...

40 Yard Dash has little to actually do with football. Rarely does a player ever run 40 yards on the field. To me, a 10 yard dash would be a better tool to judge a player, since there is a higher chance that he will be going 10 yards, than 40 yards.

Ha!!

 

[Dryden]

This has been said many times before, but...

40 Yard Dash has little to actually do with football. Rarely does a player ever run 40 yards on the field. To me, a 10 yard dash would be a better tool to judge a player, since there is a higher chance that he will be going 10 yards, than 40 yards.

The real question I want an answer to is whether you can do the 10 yard dash from the counter to the slurpee machine and back faster than tibor. :tongue2:

 

[sandgk]

all these buckeye fans and no one here mentions that a great buckeye invented the 40 yard dash for football and why.

the 40 yard dash for evaluating football players was created by coach paul brown of massillon, ohio state, browns and bengals fame.

paul picked the 40 with an eye towards guys covering kickoffs. nothing more nothing less.

excellent journalistic research in that article theorizing where the 40 came from instead of just fucking looking it up.

Now that is what I call going the extra 40 yards.

 

[Zurp]

The most over-hyped measuring tool in sports,.... PERIOD.

I think that the most under-hyped measuring tool in sports is how many chicken wings the athlete can eat in a 10-minute period. Or hot dogs, or pancakes, or whatever. I don't think I'd want to try to tackle the fullback who has been known to eat 564 chicken wings within 10 minutes.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

A REALLY cool comparison of a normal person's 40 to an NFL person...

40 yard dash: average dude vs pro athlete

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[Taosman]

I move faster sideways than forward. Hmmmm?

 

[PlanetFrnd]

I move faster sideways than forward. Hmmmm?

T, you should never trust any observations you make in your own head.

 

[OHSportsFan]

So glad there's video of this. I was cracking up during NFL Network's coverage. Cool video.

From Combine thread:

NFL Network's Rich Eisen ran a 40 yard dash and they're breaking his run down, comparing him to some of the others...

 

[Poe McKnoe]

So glad there's video of this. I was cracking up during NFL Network's coverage. Cool video.

From Combine thread:

I couldn't help but yell "look out" when it looked like Mount Cody (I presume) was going to consume Rich Eisen.

 

[Dryden]

It should come as no surprise that Rich Eisen is slower than molasses (or a 370 lb NT). Eisen went to Michigan, after all.

 

[Taosman]

[quote='BusNative;168682;1]T, you should never trust any observations you make in your own head.[/quote]
Think you can beat me running up a hill? Think again cupcake. :tongue2:

 

[PlanetFrnd]

Think you can beat me running up a hill? Think again cupcake. :tongue2:

More than that, I don't trust that you consistently know which way up is.

 

[Gatorubet]

[quote='BusNative;168723;6]More than that, I don't trust that you consistently know which way up is.[/quote]

That's ridiculous..."up" is the direction the hemp smoke goes out of the tepee. :p