Real Life Projectile Motion: Peyton Manning Throws a Football From 23 Stories High

Rhett Allain
9 min readApr 16, 2024
Image: Omaha Productions. Peyton Manning throwing a football from Bryant Park Hotel

What do you do when you have a bunch of money to just do fun stuff and record it? Well, one option would be to recreate a 1920’s football stunt — but this time use Peyton Manning and Chris Carter. The idea is to throw a football off a 23 story tall building down to a receiver in the park below. Yup, that’s what they did. You can check out the full…

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.