Is this fake or not?

[dalethompson]

http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/nothing-but-net-guy-nails-long-shot-from-upper-deck/17yf5lqcc

I looked at it time and time again. It appears around the 9 sec mark the ball kinda fades out and then fades in before going in the net.

I want to believe it's true but four things don't make sense:

1) The basketball net doesn't move at all, even if it was nothing but net.

2). The ball hardly bounces up after it goes through.

3). The shot from the ground level is only shown halfway through then stops.

4). The guy's reaction. His friend is more happy and, even then, they aren't exactly jumping for joy. If I made a 1 in a million shot like that, I'd be doing cartwheels and jumping like I won the lottery.

I smell a fake with this one, especially since the ball doesn't bounce after going through (from that height landing on spongy artificial turf, the ball should bounce up probably 20 feet high or more).

What does everyone else think?

 

[MattinSTL]

Seems hard to believe, but here's a pretty clear shot of it, click 720p.

 

[dalethompson]

when you look at it in 720, it looks like at the 14 sec mark, the balls curves a lot into the net. A clearer image kinda makes it look like it's been doctored even more.

I'm a skeptic at best but I have to believe this shot is fake.

 

[Jordan Scott Price]

I drive by the beetle stadium every day.

Now I know what's going on inside it!

 

[msorrels]

They have a website http://www.dudeperfect.com/

They do have the full footage of the side view of that shot. If they are faking it, it's a really good fake.

 

[dust'n the callipygous]

well the dude probably wasn't super excited because that was like the 15,000th try. no way you do that first time out, and by the time you do make it, you're just tired of the whole thing. or it's fake

 

[dalethompson]

Not that I thought they got it on the first try of course but even if it took them 100 attempts (which I doubt it took them this little since this is literally a one in a million shot if you consider it not only went in but it was a perfect swish), how did they get the time to do this? It's an NFL stadium, not like anyone off the street can get in there for hours at a time.

 

[David Jimerson]

Could be. Might not be. Physically possible. Not like, say, the 300-foot slip'n'slide into a tiny plastic pool.

 

[Jon Starr]

http://www.901am.com/2009/youtube-sensation-dude-perfect-reveals-techniques.html

Seems they know what they're doing. Could be that every video is fake, but I have a feeling it's not. These guys have been doing it for a while now and the main guy you see is a quarter back. They even have one doing it on a plane. They say it takes them on average 10 tries. They never said how long those crazy stadium shots took though.

 

[J.R. Hudson]

I'd say real

Definitely not on the first attempt, but after a bunch of tries ? Hell yes. I've made a dozen full court shots in my time. I say REAL