"Michael Vick Ran a 4.2 40!!!!!"

Everyone was talking about the 10.07 or 10.08 being fast for the 100...but in high school my dad ran it in 9.7 seconds...so there are a lot of people out there that are really fast, but most don't have the talent in football to get to the NFL

Yeah, Michael Vick's 4.2 is a joke. He could never keep up with world class sprinters, even though Vick's timing is FAT...it is still off the athletes motion. Oh, but, I forgot, he ran that with football shoes and on turf. But, I'm sure turf is a lot faster than a track.

mike ty wrote:

But, I'm sure turf is a lot faster than a track.

And I'm sure you're a moron.

Reddevilbaseball3 wrote:

Everyone was talking about the 10.07 or 10.08 being fast for the 100...but in high school my dad ran it in 9.7 seconds...so there are a lot of people out there that are really fast, but most don't have the talent in football to get to the NFL

If you are serious I have a couple things I'd like to point out to you:

1). I'm assuming your father was in highschool back in the 60's or 70's. If that's the case he probably ran the 100y, not the 100m. 100y is shorter.

2). I think it's also safe to assume that your father was handtimed.

3). 9.77 is the current world record for 100m and I'd bet a fat wad that your father was not that fast.

It's very likely that your father's 9.7 was handtimed over 100 yards. This would probably convert to a 10.15-10.25 FAT over 100 meters. This is still pretty darn fast but I'm guessing that 9.7 is an exaggerated time.

Not even close. I ran 9.9 for 100y, and what it's really worth is a little under 11.0 FAT. 9.7 is equivalent to about 10.53 which is 10.77 FAT.

my moms faster than your mom

Speed Kills wrote:

Not even close. I ran 9.9 for 100y, and what it's really worth is a little under 11.0 FAT. 9.7 is equivalent to about 10.53 which is 10.77 FAT.

When are you planning to debut in the 800 this year? Do you think you'll hit that sub 1:50 this year?

...Or will you cut the bullshit and admit the only results anyones ever found about you involve 24 minute 5K's and 9 second indoor 60's?

i don't get y every1 is talking about world class sprinters vs. NFL players. They call them world class sprinters for a reason. thats beside the point. All this extrapolation about 40's to 100m's is bull shit. the 40 yard dash is a measurement of quickness and acceleration as apposed to speed. thats why the 40 is more accepted over the 60. this is because they say u reach ur peak speed at around 40 yards so by running a 60, that final 20 yards after u've reached ur peak is just a measurement of how well an athlete can maintain their peak. coaches don't want that. coaches wanna know how quick someone is out of a stand still. but going back to the 100m theory, if u've reached ur peak at 40 yards (regardless of how many meters that is) u cannot extrapolate a 100m time from a 40 because they are measuring 2 different things. 60's,40's, and 100m's are not compareable to one another. so stop comparing.

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i have read nothing after the first page but 40 times r not hand time retards even in high school i was timed by computer so i sure they use computers in the nfl too and ppl have ran 3.9 4.0 at the combine, and i heard but do not know if this is true michael bennett ran a 100 fast enough to place in the 2002 olympics a few years ago

he prob an into it, or i mean had a walk in start or joggining start

The article posted in this thread ends all discussion about the legitimacy of NFL 40yd times.

But it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test.

Timing officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 – both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.

He was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul's Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake.

And, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol.

Four-point-three-eight seconds.

Then again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world.

Maybe half the NFL is faster.

If you've ever seen that race, you know that Johnson probably covered 40 yards faster than any human before or since with the exception of Lee McRae. He simply destroyed the world's best sprinters. The race was over after about 30 meters. Other than FloJo's domination in Seoul, I have never seen a 100-meter race be decided so early in the race. Considering that he only ran 4.38 in that race, it goes to show that NFL times are a farce. You do not need to extrapolate anything ... Johnson ran 4.38 for a 40 during the most dominating performance in history. Enough said.

i begg to differ a 40 yd dash time is very important for many reasons. it test how explosive you are, how fast you are in the open field(wr/kick returners). and mo never ran a 3.94 it imposible

bee wrote:

I've been to a combine. It is not a running start. The watches at the finish line are started on the first movement they see from the runner, but no command is given. They can start when they wish, but do not get a running start. They are good to compare with other football players, but little else.

This post is accurate!

jkghkj wrote:

i have read nothing after the first page but 40 times r not hand time retards even in high school i was timed by computer so i sure they use computers in the nfl too and ppl have ran 3.9 4.0 at the combine, and i heard but do not know if this is true michael bennett ran a 100 fast enough to place in the 2002 olympics a few years ago

The fact that you mentioned the '2002 Olympics' suggests to me you know very little of what you're talking about.

And yes, Michael Bennett was fast, his fastest legal time was around 10.18 I think. Good, but not great. Certainly not Olympic medal material. On any given year, that might get you in the top 10-15 in the US

read this...for perspective

hall is faster

troy williamson of te vikings ran a legit 4.18 twice at whatever combine he did

somerandommof wrote:

troy williamson of te vikings ran a legit 4.18 twice at whatever combine he did

There are no legit times coming from any of the combines. Take a look at how the timing is done.

somerandommof wrote:

troy williamson of te vikings ran a legit 4.18 twice at whatever combine he did

The fastest 40 of all time is Ben Johnson's 4.38. Seeing as Carl Lewis, Calvin Smith and Linford Christie were a yard and a half down on Johnson and Williamson wouldn't be in their class, well we're looking at 4.65-4.70 at absolute best for Williamson.