I am not much for football but for good or for bad one of my guilty pleasures is listening to local sports talk radio. Yea, I know that it is as mindless as political talk radio but remember I did say it was a "guilty pleasure".
Anyway, today I was listening to the radio host say that if a certain college football player (I don't know who it is was. Remember I don't like football much) could lower his 40 yard dash time from 4.5 seconds to 4.4 seconds, then he could probably be drafted in the first round of the NFL draft as opposed to the second round.
All this because of 1/10th of a second?
Think about it. How long is one second?
A snap of a finger? Pretty darn quick, right?
Ok, now think about 1/10th of that snap of a finger. You can't. Your mind cannot grasp a measure of time this small. That particular measure of time is completely insignificant for the purposes of timing an athlete's running ability.
NFL teams apparently use 1/10th of a second increments as a statistical measure to determine who they will draft and pay millions of dollars to play for them? Why stop there? Take it to a hundredth of a second. Why not? You have the ability to measure it.
This is absurd.
What was Dick Butkus' 40 yard time?
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