"I just think the field is too big. If they shorten the field, I would become a soccer fan," he says. "Every club, all the fans have their own particular set of songs that they will sing all through." He asks: How come there's not more scoring in soccer? 'It takes them like two minutes to run up the field'
What’s the fastest a car can accelerate? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore goal size to goal scoring ratios, the doppler effect, and the maximum acceleration for a car.
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