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Dik Hz
Feb 22, 2004

Fun with Science

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Not quite as dramatic as in soccer, but in football it's pretty common for every false start/offsides to have one or both teams immediately start pointing fingers to try and lay blame. Seems like kind of a similar principle.

In general there's not as much incentive to fake injuries in football because getting hit and getting injured is an expected part of the game, and even a completely legal hit can cause an injury that takes a player out of the game, or the season, or the sport, or life. Plus with instant replay the refs can just go look at the tape if there's any question about it.

And in baseball contact of any kind is so rare that there's not a lot of opportunity for it.
Don't forget about the Minnesota Twins who played in a domed station and would turn on the blowers in the outfield when the opposing team was at bat and the blowers behind the batter when the Twins were at bat. The difference in air flow meant a foot or two of travel on a deep fly ball. Doesn't sound like much, but that was the margin on Kirby Puckett's dramatic leaping catch at the wall to save game 6 of the 1987 world series.

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Dik Hz
Feb 22, 2004

Fun with Science

therattle posted:

Not plausible! Urine would have melted the snow
Also, it clearly would taste different.

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