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Pro streamer Ninja asks why football kickers miss kicks; sarcastic replies ask why Fortnite pros miss clicks

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For a bit of fun holiday weekend drama:



I'll never understand how college and NFL football teams allow kickers that just.... miss... kicks. I feel like there has to be pools of kickers in the USA that won't miss simple kicks. Or snappers that won't mess the snaps idk man it seems so SILLY. Would love opinions on this.

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Ninja is not happy.




More drama in the tweet replies.
 
Komo

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I mean he sorta has a point. Those people really only have one single action to do and they miss it?
 
Buff Beefbroth

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TFW you think Era's userbase skews older, and then somebody posts a thread about Ninja's twitter drama.
 
nded

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Sounds like he's trying to rile people up so he can set up some kind of field goal challenge event for views.

That or he really is your typical armchair athlete with an overinflated sense of his own physical prowess. Same outcome either way.
 
Jonneh

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I can't believe operations don't have 100% success rates and people still call themselves "doctors" smh
 
Star-Lord

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I mean he's really dumb, I think he just thinks one way and doesn't consider sports aren't just physical and it is a lot of mental processing as well.
 
SinCityAssassin

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And what's the deal with star craft streamers! They misclick and they go to an entirely different area! Your only task was to click the right spot! What's up with thaaaat???
 
mreddie

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I get why he said it but dude, Kickers could make or break the game. That's pressure on them. With millions cheering or booing to make or miss.
 
poklane

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You're telling me that someone who spends his time behind a screen with not even 10k viewers has no idea how it is to perform with tens of thousands of people right there watching you with millions more watching at home?
 

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Komo said:
I mean he sorta has a point. Those people really only have one single action to do and they miss it?
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Not really. They're not just kicking a football on a cone or something that keeps it in place, it gets snapped and held by another player which could be in an awkward position or not in the exact right spot.
 

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You'd think that Ninja would be a much bigger fan of physical sports since it's men and women separated.
 
Silent

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I mean people ridicule kickers for missing kicks all the time. His subsequent replies are dumb, though.
 

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Yup, this is a pretty stupid thing to say. The fact that Ninja can't actually answer the question for himself gives you a bit of insight into how undeveloped he is as a person.
 
DrDeckard

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this guy literally has to sit in his own room in his own house day after day and play games. He has absolutely no grasp of standing on a pitch on gameday with millions of fans watching other team mates etc staring you down.

What a silly comment from him.
 
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Joe Shlabotnik said:
Dumb tweet but it's not getting ratioed at all.
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Currently it's 1.3k replies to 342 retweets.

LoNe_eXiLe said:
Is this really thread worthy?
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Truly Gargantuan said:
No it's not
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Cloud-Strife said:
Worst thread of the week
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I'm aware this forum does not like Ninja, but this is along the lines of previous highly-commented threads on Ninja. (and tbh there really isn't any other interesting gaming news this holiday weekend)

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DNAbro

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I don't understand how anyone who has done anything competitive cannot understand that people aren't perfect.
 
Lkr

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LOL thank you for posting this. This is good, replies are even better
 
matimeo

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I will assume he's fishing for attention, nba free throws would be a much better thing for him to grasp on since it's far more consistent with pretty much all variables in control of the shooter.

NFL kicks have far too many variables not in control of the kicker.

weak troll attempt given so many better opportunities lol.
 
PCfromNYC

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Because I refuse to check his feed, how many of the comments are about NFL football not being real football?
 
KingM

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Komo said:
I mean he sorta has a point. Those people really only have one single action to do and they miss it?
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There's stuff like wind, weather, other players trying to tackle you, the immense pressure of winning, the sound of X-thousand fans cheering or jeering, and knowing that million of people at home are doing the same. Then there's also the fact that kicking a ball that far and accurately is very difficult in optimal conditions.
 
theytookourjobz

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Try playing a game of Fortnite where 11 300lb men who run 4.5 40s are running at you and a stadium full of people are screaming as loud as they can at you. Ninja you ever watch sports? lol.
 
gnexus

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Seriously tho, why aren't these so-called "pro" teams employing some kind of aim kick bot of some sort?
 
Everybody Lies

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Pitisaurio said:
Esports are not real sports, so opinion discarded.
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This. They are skill games.
Komo said:
I mean he sorta has a point. Those people really only have one single action to do and they miss it?
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He really doesn't. He forgets all of the variables that go into a kick. There is the snap. The placement of the ball. The holder getting the ball spun so the laces are facing out. The conditions of the grass or turf. The wind and how it is blowing. What hash the ball is placed on and which the kicker feels most comfortable. The play of the defense and their ability to get penetration. There are more, but you get the idea.

Might as well say I don't understand why professionals make mistakes. It is an absurd statement.
 
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