I remember it being a big deal in Ace Ventura, but it was just a movie and didn’t think anything of it. But watching games this weekend and having announcers talk about it and praising kickers when the holder can’t get them facing out I’m wondering why laces out is a big thing.
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So, the biggest this is that the laces are either perfectly out, or in, because footballs aren’t round, they’re lumpy. If you kick a football with the laces perfectly out, vs kick a football that’s turned 1/3r left or right, the shape of the surface your foot is hitting is different and might send it a different direction.
Then for just out vs in, kickers say that just that extra bit of lacing is enough to throw off their kicks. And football broadly as a community agrees and puts a lot of emphasis on laces out
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