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20/20 vision for John Emery
Posted on 2/1/20 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 2/1/20 at 6:57 pm
Heard on Off The Bench that He was clinically blind. He had lasik surgery, hopefully this will be beneficial in catching out of the backfield.
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Posted on 2/1/20 at 6:58 pm to tygertooth
Worked for Bowe
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:00 pm to tygertooth
Hopefully it works.. dude has all the talent in the world. Him and ty 1-2 punch would be deadly
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:01 pm to tygertooth
That is crazy he has been playing football all these years with one eye. I can’t imagine how great he feels with perfect vision now.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:03 pm to tygertooth
Hopefully that’s why he couldn’t see who he was supposed to be blocking.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:04 pm to tygertooth
Couple of questions
How does a player not have a full physical exam right as they show up on campus?
How was vision not made better than 20/20 since it went to surgery?
How does a player not have a full physical exam right as they show up on campus?
How was vision not made better than 20/20 since it went to surgery?
This post was edited on 2/1/20 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:09 pm to Rouge
I was asking myself some of the same questions.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:11 pm to tygertooth
Well did he not wear contacts before?
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:13 pm to TheWalrus
He did, however his vision was still flawed. That’s what T-bob said
Posted on 2/1/20 at 7:59 pm to Rouge
quote:
better than 20/20
Is this a thing?
Not familiar with eye terms
Posted on 2/1/20 at 8:03 pm to Terrific Tales
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Is this a thing?
Definitely a thing.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 8:26 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
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Worked for Quinn
Posted on 2/1/20 at 8:52 pm to Terrific Tales
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better than 20/20
Is this a thing?
Yes. I used to have 20/10 vision. That means I could see clearly at 20 feet what normal people need to be at 10 feet to see. I could read most of the bottom line on an eye chart. When my vision went to 20/20, I thought I was going blind.
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:32 pm to Rouge
He could have had a physical and they knew. But he had played in HS with it, so why not wait until after the season?
Posted on 2/1/20 at 11:36 pm to tygertooth
He may have had vision correction surgery but there is zero chance he was clinically blind.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 12:23 am to Terrific Tales
quote:
Is this a thing?
Not familiar with eye terms
20/20 is perfect vision. So I don't know how he expects them to make it better than perfect.
There's a reason the old saying goes "hindsight is always 20/20".
This post was edited on 2/2/20 at 12:24 am
Posted on 2/2/20 at 3:21 am to Metaloctopus
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20/20 is perfect vision.
Not strictly correct. 20/20 vision means that you can see objects 20 feet away from you as though a regular person sees objects 20 feet away.
While some ranges outside of 20/20 are generally worse (for instance, 20/100 vision means that you need to be 20 feet away to see an object with the same clarity that a normal person can see from 100 feet away; very difficult to imagine a scenario where this is useful), sometimes non-20/20 vision can actually be better for situations where long-distance viewing is needed. For instance, a fighter pilot's ideal vision may well be 20/10 because of the need to identify potential targets or dangers more quickly than normal people.
ETA: As far as playing football goes, I guess 20/15 or 20/10 vision is better, but I doubt it's of substantial tactical benefit. Fixing vision to 20/20 is probably pretty important (
) but anything "better" would be of dubious value.This post was edited on 2/2/20 at 3:24 am
Posted on 2/2/20 at 6:22 am to Byrdybyrd05
quote:Well, I'm nowhere near the talent Emery is... I wear glasses now, used to wear contacts. (I need glasses for reading now, too).
That is crazy he has been playing football all these years with one eye. I can’t imagine how great he feels with perfect vision now.
As a teen, I used to go without contacts/glasses a lot when playing sports, and in football it actually helped in some ways. I could still see, things were just fuzzy beyond a certain distance.
That distance happened to be just beyond arm's length.
So for football- if the ball was coming my way, I could still "detect" it easily, and when it became sharp it was time to catch. If someone was coming to tackle me, if they were fuzzy they couldn't touch me. It was almost like having a built-in range finder.
When I started wearing contacts all the time, it did sharpen the whole picture, and it looked nicer. But it sorta interfered with my timing awhile.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 6:57 am to OKBoomerSooner
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Not strictly correct. 20/20 vision means that you can see objects 20 feet away from you as though a regular person sees objects 20 feet away.
This. When I was younger I had 20/13. I could see at 2 miles what the average person saw at 1.3 miles.
At 60+ years, I now don't even have 20/20. And I miss it.
CS,OM*
*cool story, old man.
Posted on 2/2/20 at 7:06 am to Fat Man
Emery will reinvent the wheel route
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