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Chris Ryan: To paraphrase Crash Davis, anything that traveled that far, that fast should have had a stewardess on it. A lot has been made of Andrew Luck, the rocket scientist, whether it's his days behind a draftsman's desk in Palo Alto or his cerebral off-field hobbies, detailed in Robert Mays's feature on the second-year Colts field general. We know the dude reads books without pictures. I'm not here to talk about Luck the rocket scientist. I'm here to talk about Luck the rocket launcher.

You can sort of see it in the GIF above, and you can more see it in this video on NFL.com, but if you saw it as it happened, you know what I'm saying is true: That pass — a 64-yard strike to T.Y. Hilton — looked like it had afterburners. For half a second, when it leaves Luck's hand, it looks like it's going on the traditional arc of an object hurled into space — up and then down. But as anyone who watched Luck overcome a crappy, three-pick performance and a 28-point deficit to orchestrate one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history can tell you, Luck is playing by different rules. He may be able to complete a crossword puzzle, and his teammates may have gotten so confused by his beard that they think he's Jesus (Gosder Cherilus: "Andrew kept saying, 'Stay with me, stay with me,' … He willed us to this win"), but when you get down to it, a carpenter is only as good as his tools. This guy is a 6-foot-4, 239-pound beast with a lightning bolt for an arm. They don't teach that at Stanford.

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http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triang...ight-stuff

Chris Ryan: To paraphrase Crash Davis, anything that traveled that far, that fast should have had a stewardess on it. A lot has been made of Andrew Luck, the rocket scientist, whether it's his days behind a draftsman's desk in Palo Alto or his cerebral off-field hobbies, detailed in Robert Mays's feature on the second-year Colts field general. We know the dude reads books without pictures. I'm not here to talk about Luck the rocket scientist. I'm here to talk about Luck the rocket launcher.

You can sort of see it in the GIF above, and you can more see it in this video on NFL.com, but if you saw it as it happened, you know what I'm saying is true: That pass — a 64-yard strike to T.Y. Hilton — looked like it had afterburners. For half a second, when it leaves Luck's hand, it looks like it's going on the traditional arc of an object hurled into space — up and then down. But as anyone who watched Luck overcome a crappy, three-pick performance and a 28-point deficit to orchestrate one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history can tell you, Luck is playing by different rules. He may be able to complete a crossword puzzle, and his teammates may have gotten so confused by his beard that they think he's Jesus (Gosder Cherilus: "Andrew kept saying, 'Stay with me, stay with me,' … He willed us to this win"), but when you get down to it, a carpenter is only as good as his tools. This guy is a 6-foot-4, 239-pound beast with a lightning bolt for an arm. They don't teach that at Stanford.

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