Ahh...another Sunday passed so fleetingly from my grasp. It was mainly spent in front of a big screen TV watching high definition football. Just some ordinary game called Super Bowl XLII, nothing special. The vaunted, undefeated Patriots attempted to go after a perfect season, but the mighty Giants of New York stood in there way. O how sweet is was to see those Pats go down. Not only that, when I was watching the game in the fourth quarter, Eli Manning was driving his team down the field with less than two minutes left to play. After nearly getting sacked Eli was able to throw up the ball high enough for David Tyree to leap into the air and haul it down with his Madden Spectacular Catch Ability. AHH! That's when that weekly epiphany game. How in the world did Eli do that?! Pigskin-DOC! appeared to me out from my bowl of boiled peanuts and shouted loudly "STUPID!". Why of course, Pigskin-DOC! was correct, Eli must've been a natural-born physicist with supreme projectile motion skills. Eli had to throw the ball with enough velocity to travel a distance of about forty yards, not only that he had to battle that ever-apparent force of mg (down). Calculating kinematics quickly in his head, Eli was able to not only escape the grasp of the defensive linemen, but also calculate theta so that the football would reach Tyree at such a height that he could jump and catch it above the not-so great Rodney Harrison. Boy, were they correct to give MVP to Eli Manning. Pigskin-DOC! was correct.
MVP doesn't stand for Most Valuble Player, it stands for Most Vaunted Physicist. Ahh. It was good to turn off the television with the sweet taste of victory from a fans point of view. Lesson of the week: Mastery of 2-D Kinematics can land you a starting quarterback job in the NFL.
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