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RUSH: David in Natick, Massachusetts, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Klaus Nomi dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. Yes, yes. Klaus Nomi, our Gay Community Update Theme.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I love that song.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I do, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yesterday while watching the Super Bowl with no team that I was really rooting for, just hoping for a good game — which I think we got — everybody was talking about the speed the football is being thrown at. I was wondering why they don\u2019t use speed guns like they do in baseball to time the passes.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s an interesting question. I\u2019d have to just make a wild guess. I mean, I don\u2019t really know. But I would say that the speed of a baseball that\u2019s being thrown is directly relatable to how difficult it is to hit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know that how hard a football is thrown is related to how tough it is to catch. So it may not matter. Other than as a little point of interest: If some guy\u2019s got a rocket arm, what does that mean for throwing a football? I bet you\u2019re wondering because of Kaepernick, the 49ers quarterback. He\u2019s apparently got a bazooka for an arm.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Right. Do you have any idea what speed a football does fly at?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t. I know there are people that do. I just have never… If I\u2019ve heard it, I don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the benchmark for a baseball pitcher, fastball, is 95 or hundred miles an hour. If somebody can do that, that\u2019s unique. I mean, that\u2019s special.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. A football would not go that fast.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I don\u2019t know what it travels at. I\u2019ll find out, though.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll find out. I\u2019ve had one thrown to me by somebody that can throw that correspondingly hard. I got out of the way of it. I didn\u2019t want any part of it. It\u2019s unlike any pass I ever attempted to catch playing sandlot football. So it does take a special talent to catch those things, but those guys do have rocket arms. Maybe 50 miles an hour, I\u2019m guessing, is a rocket coming off the arm of an NFL quarterback.<\/p>\n

Okay, folks, we gotta take a brief time-out here. As you can see, there are no boundaries in terms of what we discuss here on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It turns out there was a New York Times story last week on a bunch of football facts and trivia, and it turns out that they do use The JUGS Gun at the annual Combine. That\u2019s the radar gun, and that\u2019s what they call it: The JUGS Gun. That\u2019s the actual acronym for the things. You\u2019re thinking of Raquel Welch, and it\u2019s not that, Snerdley. It\u2019s an acronym for whatever the radar gun is. It turns out that 50 miles an hour is a rocket for a football pass.<\/p>\n

Elway clocks in at 60, and that\u2019s considered freakish. Colin Kaepernick is around 50 and Drew Brees at 52 miles an hour. They check these quarterbacks at The Combine, which is where all the college prospects show up and basically go the meat market and show their wares. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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