Today, CNBC’s Darren Rovell introduces us to what he calls the “newest performance enhancer”: air-conditioned shoulder pads:
Air Conditioned Shoulder Pads? The Future Is Now
↵↵Having Peyton Manning instead of Chad Pennington gave the Colts a significant advantage heading into last night’s game against the Dolphins. But from a keeping cool standpoint, the two sides were equal.
↵That’s because both were using the Temperature Management System, which uses compressors to blow cold dry air through the pads of the players on both teams while the they are sitting on the bench.
↵↵Frankly, I’m shocked that both Peyton Manning and Chad Pennington were using these last night, and I hadn’t heard of them before. Are these a secret? Or have I just not been paying attention? Either way, my mind is blown … by a cool artificial breeze! Hi-oh!
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