Uncle Si":kuuug389 said:
Overseasfan":kuuug389 said:
If the holder holds the ball with the laces towards the kicker and that causes the kick to go wide, that's not us being lucky, that's a botched FG attempt.
Word from the Vikings is the holder was instructed not to spin the ball laces in because of the cold weather...
The other thing is that laces don't even matter for a chip shot like that.
I think a lot of people misunderstand why kickers prefer the laces to be 180 degrees from the kick:
If the laces are "in" it's bad for distance because you can't get a clean kick on the ball, and if the laces are 90 degrees in either direction it can make the ball slightly drift that direction on really long kicks.
Neither of these things matter AT ALL for a chip shot.
If we're going to blame the holder, the blame would be over the ball being angled rather than perpendicular to the ground.
Still though, regardless, we're talking about something going wrong that only goes right 99 out of 100 times.