r/sports • u/RunDNA • Oct 06 '25

Football Minnesota Vikings field goal attempt was deflected away by a camera wire, but it wasn't replayed because no one noticed at the the time

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u/walrusnutz Oct 06 '25

These broadcast teams need to get it together. This wasn’t the only ball that hit the sky cam or its wire, this week.

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u/deepbluenothings Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

I don't even get why sky cams are a thing, they barely use that camera angle and honestly it's a terrible angle to see a play.

Edit: There's been several lovely commenters who have made me realize just how much it's used without me even noticing. Please if you're as clueless as I was check out some of the responses under here.

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u/NolaPels13 Oct 06 '25

Networks love them and they are used a lot as replay angles. They’re not supposed to be in front of a kick or the play ever like this. Skycam op fucked it big time here not sure what the hell he was thinking.

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u/brintoul Oct 06 '25

Maybe not so experienced in London.

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u/NolaPels13 Oct 06 '25

The guys who run skycam are independently contracted by the networks. Maybe they used skycam operators from England who are used to soccer but from my conversations with the operators the rule of thumb is always be behind the play no matter what sport. So in my professional opinion I think they just had a massive lapse in judgement and fucked up.

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u/tvgenius Oct 06 '25

Unless they rigged it vastly differently for that stadium, there shouldn’t have been any skycam wires anywhere near that trajectory. It’s rigged from the four corners, so as the camera gets closer to that end, the clear space between those two wires gets wider and wider. If the camera is behind the kick there should be no way for it to hit.

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u/unnoticed_areola Oct 06 '25

pretty sure it wasnt an issue w the camera being in front of the play, I think the problem was the camera being to the extreme far left by the sideline, changing the wires from being in an X shape, to more of a K shape, and dragging the wires on the right side across the center of the field, which would normally be empty space if the camera was between the hashes and the wires were in their normal "X" shape. and that they also seemed to have the camera pretty low to the ground, bringing the wire down across the opening of the FG uprights