[personal] [Husker] DeAngelis (fwd)

[BRADALAN at aol.com]

This is correct, if your kicker somehow manages to kick a nice, tight  
spiral.  However most kicks tend to rotate end-over-end, around an axis  
perpendicular to the flight vector.  I do think if you notice kicks that  tend to hook or 
slice hard, that they tend to not have much end-over-end  rotation.
 
Brad Bredenkamp
 
 
In a message dated 7/10/2005 3:12:41 PM Hawaiian Standard Time,  
nolan at romaine.tssi.com writes:

The  amount of spin on the football does affect the lateral movement of 
the  ball.  However, unlike a baseball, increasing the amount of spin on 
a  football tends to make it go straighter, not curve.  This is in  some
measure due to the fact that the football is not spherical and spins  on
an axis along its primary line of flight, while depending upon
the  grip a baseball's spin may not be the same as its line of flight,
thus  permitting it to veer off that line.

Therefore, a kicker in Denver  should probably have slightly more
distance than a kicker in Indianapolis,  and with a truer line of flight.