— One of the most infamous dropped passes in football history clanged off Dallas Cowboys tight end Jackie Smith as he lay in the end zone during Super Bowl XIII. Poor Smith. Forty years ago, he had only his bare hands to try to pull in Roger Staubach’s low pass. playoffs, he almost certainly would have been wearing a pair of the sticky, silicone gloves that have transformed receivers’ mitts into virtual Spider-Man hands. Sports Lab performed at the request of The New York Times.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2019 07:18 UTC