Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Shut the Fuck Up: Sports Science

Conceptually, Sports Science is a pretty cool feature of ESPN.  Professional athletes are awesome and seeing the things they are capable of is always interesting.  The problem with Sports Science is that it always seems to be about such stupid things.  Oh, does being in cold weather do something different than warm weather to a football player's body? No way! And comparing Devin Hester to a bear? That's just a step too far.
There are many things I don't like about this bear episode.  First of all, they get a black bear.  They should get a grizzly, that would much cooler.  Second of all, why the fuck is the black bear brown?  As for the science part, they discover that the bear is indeed faster and they obviously knew that all along.  But they also say that right now, Devin Hester is faster because he's not hibernating.  What a useless piece of TV.
Another terrible Sports Science moment was the one on Dwight Freeney.  So he has a famous spin move, we all know that.  BUT! let's take a closer look shall we?  So we zoom in and slow it down and watch him spin...  He has a peak angular velocity at 500 degrees a second! Holy shit! Wait, who cares.  I'm a Dwight Freeney fan, but  this clip was just a waste of my time and a major overuse of graphics.  Though, they do reveal he can hit the QB 700 PSI higher than Drago can punch, so that's something.
All in all, Sports Science is something can could be really cool.  There are a lot of great things that could be done with it.  Instead, all they do is put up graphic after graphic.  The graphic themselves aren't even cool.  As for the host,  John Brenkus, well he's a big majd with a cool job.

4 comments:

  1. sadly the awesomeness of Jesse Palmer does not balance out the gayness that ESPN gives us with sports science and Jim Rome

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  2. If you ask me, it needs to be more like the short-lived Fox exploitation program "MAN V. BEAST"

    I personally want to see who can eat more hotdogs between Prince Fielder and a Kodiak Bear or watch Kimbo Slice wrestle an orangutan. Hopefully someday the show will answer the age-old question of who can pull an airplane farther between the Baltimore Raven's line and 50 midgets

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  3. Man I should write about Man vs. Beast, that show was the best

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