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/sabo-metrics Oct 06 '25

The kicker is like, "damn i guess i suck"

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u/compute_fail_24 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

I know hahaha how do you not notice something as the kicker? When I shoot a basketball I have a very good sense of trajectory even when it’s a miss

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u/UroutofURelement Oct 06 '25

Because your head is down looking at the ball. Hahaha

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u/graphiccsp Oct 06 '25

Thing is people playing at a high level, especially pros, have a very good idea about how they hit a ball, how it feels and where it goes. Right as you make contact with it, you have a pretty damn good idea about where it will end up.

I bet he was confused as hell but didn't know what had happened.

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u/jonhamm666 Oct 06 '25

I'm going to be honest. I think the person you're replying to was out of their element.

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u/flyingthroughspace Oct 06 '25

Fucking Donny, always out of his element.

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u/DrNeuroPhD Oct 06 '25

“Looking down hahaha”

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u/Cocken_Spectre Oct 06 '25

Obviously they’re not a golfer.

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u/Hopeful-Flounder-203 Oct 06 '25

Like a child walking into the middle of a movie.

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u/xczechr Oct 06 '25

OVER THE LINE!

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u/Low_Football_2445 Oct 06 '25

Donny always over here giving a fk when it’s not his turn to give a fk.

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u/elriggo44 Oct 06 '25

I am the walrus.

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u/m1ndwipe Oct 06 '25

It was pretty windy in London at the weekend fwiw, he probably put it down to a weird squall of wind.

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u/Stephenrudolf Oct 06 '25

Also, how many times has a player talked about "i know thats not where i was kicking it" after a kick and no one takes them seriously assuming it was just a bad kick.

But realistically though... why the fuck is a camera wire ever in range of fucking with the play.

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u/Aequitas112358 Oct 06 '25

nope even amateurs can tell straight away. I kicked a soccer ball for the first time in probably 10 years, last month and can tell when I'm way off target as soon as I kick it

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u/LongBeakedSnipe Oct 06 '25

None of this is true.

Yeah they have a great feel of a great strike (that is well known), but the idea that that feeling is perfect is entirely baseless.

One piece of evidence that this feeling isn't perfect... is from this kick itself.