Yes, this an old video. Yes, Drew Brees is an amazing quarterback. “Sports Science” just gets it wrong however. He’s doing a disservice to Drew Brees … and to Olympic Archers. Not only that, but their editors put in clips of archers using compound bows which are not allowed in the Olympics. These compound archers, with sights and lenses, and releases, are even *more* accurate than archers limited to bows allowed in the Olympics.

Sport Science is a show on one of the various ESPN networks. It previously aired on FSN. The Brees experiment occurred months ago, at which time the folks at FOX were still paying the bills. Here’s the video. Brees was throwing from 20 yards; the eight-plus-minute segment fails to mention that the Olympic archers are shooting from nearly four times that distance. And video images of people shooting arrows create the false impression that Olympic archers fire from a much shorter distance than five feet longer than three-fourths of a football field.

I’m getting a little tired of shows with “science” and “lab” in their name, only getting things half right. Science deserves better, archers deserve better, Drew Brees deserves better, and the public deserves better. This film short could have been just as cool if they had been complete and, ya know, all “sciency and stuff”.

Science up folks!!! Science is cool.

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Brees more accurate than Olympic archers, sort of