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Alleged 'World's Longest Shot': Fake or Real?

Watch the videos and render a verdict in the comments:



I want to be a believer, but what's up with the curveball angle this thing takes at the end. I guess wind isn't out of the question because the ball was thrown from the third deck at Kyle Field. Even after watching both angles, I don't know what to think. If we're all being fooled, at least all those YouTube views are going for a good cause, as their ad money from YouTube is reportedly going toward The Human Fund.

(H/T to Darren Rovell)

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I will almost never believe videos like these….way to easy to edit.  Only the people involved will ever know for sure. 

It seems kinda fishy that they were allowed on the field to do a crazy stunt.

I would vote no it’s not real. 

by brooks36 on Sep 22, 2009 12:53 PM EDT reply actions  

I think its real. It i snot impossible. they could have connections with any field worker. I have been on two some what major college football fields in my day. One time with a current student, not during school hours, and another time delivering pizza. I could have gone through out the training facilities of the second one, (Western Carolina.)

So, being there is not an issue. And the shot is possible, might take a lot of shots, but it is possible. It is not a unhuman like feat of stregth, just a lucky shot.

by AW78 on Sep 22, 2009 1:27 PM EDT reply actions  

I think its real. It i snot impossible. they could have connections with any field worker. I have been on two some what major college football fields in my day. One time with a current student, not during school hours, and another time delivering pizza. I could have gone through out the training facilities of the second one, (Western Carolina.)

So, being there is not an issue. And the shot is possible, might take a lot of shots, but it is possible. It is not a unhuman like feat of stregth, just a lucky shot.

by AW78 on Sep 22, 2009 1:31 PM EDT reply actions  

I go to Texas A&M and it isn’t all that hard to get onto Kyle Field. People run laps around the field and bleachers everyday in the stands. I am sure it wouldn’t take much effort for someone to set something like this up.

Not to mention that is B.J. Holmes at the end of the field level video.

by blakblob on Sep 22, 2009 3:03 PM EDT reply actions  

Aggies are too stupid to doctor video, he must have done it.

by zen_marley on Sep 22, 2009 7:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Real or not, that was still cool.

by MFazio23 on Sep 22, 2009 8:43 PM EDT reply actions  

these guys all look kinda gay to me

by scurds on Sep 23, 2009 8:50 AM EDT reply actions  

As a former Aggie I want to believe it is real. By watching it I think it is more likely real than fake.

Although, I would have to imagine if I was in the group of guys trying this shot over and over and over, that I would have someone behind the goal, maybe on the field, to retrieve the missed balls. They were all standing around the goal as if it was going in already. This makes me skeptical, but nevertheless if it was edited it was done very well.

Great job Ags keep it up!

by hahnjr on Sep 23, 2009 11:19 AM EDT reply actions  

If we’re all being fooled, at least all those YouTube views are going for a good cause…I choose to give trust to them, only for my own belief…

Digression mention in passing, today, my 3 years old daughter asked me to make some clothes for her Barbie doll.

by KKaia on Sep 24, 2009 3:34 AM EDT reply actions  

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