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To: Pearls Before Swine; freebilly; All
OK, I’m getting on in years, but it takes me at least 90 seconds to take a leak. I don’t think I could do 11 or 12 separate operations in that period of time, whatever they are. I suppose if I had a special device for inflating a given amount (not sure what that would be... maybe 3 seconds with a calibrated orifice on a needle), I could pull it off, but I’d have to hustle. Please allow time for unpacking and repacking the bag. 90 seconds?

(Yeah, well multiply a NASCAR pit crew's tire-changing routine by 25 -- and you & I can't still aren't likely to change a tire in that duration, you see, that's what they do for a living...they practice)

Now a lockerroom attendant is no pro pit crew, but he wouldn't need to be.

"Today’s six-member [NASCAR pitcrew] teams can change four tires and add fuel in as little as 11 seconds.." TECHNOLOGY COUNTDOWN: PIT STOPS

So a 6 member pitcrew can change 4 tires plus fuel up in 11 seconds.

that's 1 guy per tire & 1 guy fueling...the other guy is probably assisting all of the above...

Essentially, then, a pit crew member can change one tire in 11 seconds.

If an entire tire can be removed & replaced in that time...a measly 15% of air from a single football can be removed in that time -- even by somebody not operating every move at pitcrew speed!

34 posted on 01/28/2015 3:32:12 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
It would take me 5 seconds to switch one bag with 12 footballs in it with another bag with 11 deflated footballs in it and one good one for the kicker.
Dirty work needs to be fast and simple.
Juggling footballs in a bathroom does not meet those requirements.
TWB
40 posted on 01/28/2015 4:09:15 PM PST by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin, the Flame of the North)
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To: Colofornian

Thanks for the Taylor time and motion analasys, lol. It’s possible the guy handling the balls was a one man pitcrew, but as a Pats fan , I’ll go with the assessment he was merely taking a pit stop. It was the bathroom , after all.


42 posted on 01/28/2015 4:34:48 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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