WP Sports Bog - Jason Campbell: Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake

[zskins]

I tried it last night and posted it the other thread on this same target. But my kids who are 4 & 3 dropped the damn ball so IT MUST BE FAKE.

Right...the video is fake. There are no kids in it!!!

When you are trying to duplicate something it is REAL important you try to use the same equipment.

How can you put your kids through this???

[Dan T.]

I tried it last night and posted it the other thread on this same target. But my kids who are 4 & 3 dropped the damn ball so IT MUST BE FAKE.

I hope you made them drop and give you 50.

[skinsfanno9]

Whether its real or not, it's a pretty cool commercial. I'm just happy to see that JC is getting some spotlight time.

[Om]

Dear Mr. La Canfora—

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say the the Jason Campbell trick is fake. Papa says, “If you see it in JLC's blog, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is it real?

Virginia O’Hanlon


Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see.............


............No Jason Campbell trick!? Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Nice.

I see you've been to Church.

[KSUskinfan]

All you have to do is watch the guy on the right and youll see.

Agreed. He completely freezes. That's the only overt flaw to an otherwise great display of CGI editing.

Now that we know it's fake, it's safe to say we are doomed. Let's bring in Aaron Brooks. HE could make that throw FOR REAL.

[Dan T.]

Nice.

I see you've been to Church.

No, but I visited Jason at the mall, sat on his lap, and told him what I want for the 2007 season. He just laughed - Ho ho ho.

[SkinsNoles21]

when I play basketball I always throw my ball up and hit other peoples ball when they are shooting, i plan it out so it shells it right b4 they think its gonna drop in....

I am no athlete and Campbell is the opposite of that, so I really feel like this could be done. Except how it goes to right where the receivers are standing, weve all see footballs bounce on the ground you really have no control on what they are gonna do when they hit.

[Wyvern]

FAKE, but a well-designed one. For those of you who think this was real, I'd have you look again, keeping in mind my comments below.

Look at the first football JC throws. There is no shadow on the ground as he throws it. .... But look at the second ball that he throws a split second later. You can see the shadow as he throws the second ball. So why is the shadow missing? Because the tape is doctored!

Now look at how JC throws the ball. The first one is in the direction of the receiver on the left, and the second is in the direction of the other receiver. Neither ball was thown directly down the middle!

But what do you see later -- some shadows that look like the balls intersect and collide downfield. Not possible. That's why you don't see any ball shadows beyound 4 yards from where JC tosses the ball, but you can see the shadows of the WRs as they run down the field.

As for the "deflected" balls landing into the receivers' arms? Those had to have been thown at a different time, perhaps from the sidelines to make the "bounce" angle look better. The last 10 yards of the those passes (trajectory and reception) were then pasted inton the clip while the editors were cleaning up any signs of the trajectories of JC's original passes. They are far enough downfield for this kind of editing.

It's all about the graphics folks. And in this digitized age, one needs to view any of these kinds of electronic video clips with a grain of salt.

[Jumbo]

FAKE

YAKUZA


I don't know what that means, it just happened for some reason.

[Nuwanda]

of course its fake. nfl.com did the same thing with braylon edwards (his eyes were closed and he caught every ball thrown his way) and neil rackers last year. it looks nice, but its obviously fake

[Kindred]

when asked if he could throw a ball 30 yards and then hit it with another ball, Mark Brunell replied, "hold on a second, you are asking 2 questions at once. i mean i don't know if i can throw the ball 30 yards to start so i'm not sure i can give an accurate response to the compound question."

I'm and at the same time

[Kindred]

The video may have been fake, but the desired effect was a great success, as this thread and all the media hype about it clearly proves.

[Earthcat]

They're all fake, did you see Braylon Edwards catching with a blindfold? Come on grasshopper.

[jrfriedm]

First comment after the blog points to evidence supporting fake:

"Hmm. On his second throw, the shadow of the football seems to disappear. Hmm again."

This appears to be so. Shadow disappears after it passes behind Campbell.

This is true, the there is no shadow for either ball.


However, I think that it's real.

[phatSkins27]

That commercial is fake and it is funny and I like it. Now, which Extremeskinner is going to go out and try and duplicate that "feat"???

i will reproduce it on my computer a few thousand times and he can pay me $10 each!!