When Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski split the uprights on a 48-yard field goal in the first quarter against the Chiefs on Sunday night, the kick seemed unremarkable enough. But after a commercial break and the ensuing kickoff, NBC’s Sunday Night Football broadcast debuted a new feature, SNF Kicks, that tracked the trajectory with a TrackMan radar and told a deeper story.
This Gostkowski kick left his foot at 74 miles per hour, reached an apex of 44 feet above the turf, and would have been good from 57 yards.
“We’re at the very beginning but here, I do think there is value in this technology or we wouldn’t have invested in it,” said NBC executive producer Fred Gaudelli.
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