Bowl game

• Premiered during Super Bowl LVIII, “The DunKings" features Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Tom Brady.
• In the brand’s first-ever Super Bowl spot, he took a surprise order from his wife, Jennifer Lopez.
• After leaving fans on a major cliffhanger, Dunkin’s Super Bowl LVIII commercial opened in a quintessentially full-circle moment.
• With seven Super Bowl wins to his name, Super Bowl LVIII was the ideal moment for his debut as a member of The DunKings.

• I didn’t get a pass to media day, so I didn’t get a chance to ask Chiefs head coach Andy Reid about how he tends to his mustache.
• But my colleagues and I were able to ask an all-pro lineup of scholars to write about a range of football-related topics, from the partisan food divide to the numbers behind the biggest gambling bonanza in league history.

1. Flag, you’re it

• A year ago, league officials decided to shake up the annual showcase.
• It would no longer be a tackle football game.
• But Woods points to a gender divide and a political divide that could end up clouding the sport’s future.

2. X’s, O’s and Z’s

• In 2011, former NFL cornerback Sam Shields was a rookie playing for a Green Bay Packers team that had made the Super Bowl.
• The night before the big game, he tossed and turned.
• Something tells me I’d be a lot like Shields.

3. Going all in on gambling

• Or maybe you’re betting on Reba McEntire’s national anthem to last longer than 90.5 seconds.
• The country’s gambling mania has been aided, in part, by the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling that overturned a federal ban on sports betting.
• The NFL has gone all in on its embrace of gambling, forging billion-dollar partnerships with the country’s top sportsbooks.
• Read more:
  The Super Bowl gets the Vegas treatment, with 1 in 4 American adults expected to gamble on the big game

4. At least they aren’t serving donkey meat

• And even the Super Bowl – one of the few communal events left in a polarized, atomized nation – can’t avoid the creep of partisanship.
• Maybe you could just serve salmon – a food that, according to Dyck and Pearson-Merkowitz’s research, is “resistant to partisan cues.” Grim times, indeed.
• Read more:
  Super Bowl party foods can deliver political bite – choose wisely

5. ByeDaddy

• That’s one reason companies are willing to fork over so much cash for a coveted slot – as much as US$7 million for a 30-second spot.
• Ferrell point out, many regulars on the airwaves of the Super Bowl, such as GoDaddy and Ford, are missing from this year’s lineup.
• Read more:
  Super Bowl ads: It's getting harder for commercials to score with consumers

  This story is a roundup of articles from The Conversation’s archives.

• This year’s event on Sunday – with the added attraction of a romance in the spotlight – promises to attract as many fans.
• In Canada, the most recent Grey Cup final, last November, reached a record audience of 3.7 million viewers who tuned in to watch the Montréal Alouettes’ victory.
• A number of factors affect the ball’s aerodynamics, including the way it is made and its inflation pressure.
• As a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Québec’s École de technologie supérieure, I am interested in experimental fluid dynamics.

Ball size affects flight stability

• They must be between 11" and 11.25" long.
• The higher the speed of rotation, the more stable the ball will be during its flight.
• Different dimensions can therefore have specific effects on the stability of the ball’s flight.

A larger circumference suggests that more of the ball’s mass is located away from its centre line. This means that it will have a higher moment of inertia (resistance to rotation) and, therefore, that the same force applied to make it rotate will result in a lower speed of rotation.

Two stripes and laces make a difference

• While there are two white stripes on the Canadian ball, as well as laces, American rules don’t mention these.
• The differences between the Canadian and American balls can have an effect on their drag.
• In this case, it is mainly the resistance caused by the air (a fluid), which is called form or pressure drag.

NFL or CFL, which ball is better?

• An aerodynamic force balance could be used to measure the differences in drag between the two balls subjected to the same conditions.
• The movement of these particles could then be captured using a camera to quantify the airspeed at all points around the ball.

Different rotation speeds and flight speeds could be examined, as there is always the possibility of developing flow instabilities, which would lead to a change in its behaviour around the ball. This would help determine whether the NFL or CFL ball is better.

Ball texture influences drag

• The rougher the texture of the ball, the greater the friction drag for the same speed.
• Similarly, a faster ball speed will have a higher friction drag.

And then there’s the weather!

• Cold or hot temperatures can affect the size of the ball by reducing or increasing the air pressure inside it.
• Similarly, temperature can have some effect on the material properties of the ball, with colder temperatures making it stiffer and warmer temperatures making it softer.

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