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Hunting for Big Game Science

FEB 03, 2012
Inside Science would like to wish you a wonderful weekend, full of fun, food, and football.
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Hunting for Big Game Science lead image

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Inside Science would like to wish you a wonderful weekend, full of fun, food, and football. Before settling into your favorite chair in front of a recently purchased giant television screen to enjoy hours of pregame analysis, musical performances, football games and commercials, we encourage you to take a look at a new Inside Science Television video about how team colors can affect the health of a football field .

Yale University also posted on YouTube an interesting video on the physics of football .

Inside Science News Service has a long history of covering football-related science as well, available from our archive:

The Acoustics of Home Field Advantage

How Many Points is Home Field Advantage?

Teams from Arid Climates Might Be Underrated

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