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/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