At Baylor football practice Friday, Bears associate athletic director of football operations Sean Padden agreed to race against a motorized tackling dummy, much to the delight of the onlooking players. And to Padden’s credit, he beat the machine comfortably enough to be catching his breath in the end zone as it finished its dash.
And then… whack.
The time @SeanJpadden raced the Dummy for Curfew! #ManVsMachine pic.twitter.com/Xgc7tCcJ6c
— Matt Rhule (@CoachMattRhule) August 4, 2017
The dummy, apparently upset about having been beaten by a portly administrator, took vengeance in a brutal way. Kind of like when The Mountain lost a joust to Loras Tyrell and attempted to decapitate him as revenge. Or something.
But in a video posted to Twitter, Padden had his own references at the ready, focusing more on the triumph of man over machine that they machine’s final comeuppance.
I just want to say it was man vs. machine. And I think back to Sarah Connor vs. the Terminator, Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, Ken Jennings vs. Watson, John Henry vs. that steam engine. I did it for humanity. That’s a warning out there because machines aren’t going to fight fair, and we’ve got to be ready.
#ManVsMachine #Bfast #SPfast pic.twitter.com/5p4RJc5b34
— Sean Padden (@SeanJpadden) August 4, 2017
Padden can try all he wants to spin this a victory, but anyone who watched that video knows the score is Man – 1, Tackling Dummy – 1.
