On the stage of the University Theatre were an Old Dominion football helmet and football. The screen featured logos of the New England Patriots and the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers. But the stage also included some unique implements, such as an oxygen tank, lead bricks and a stepladder.
For 90 minutes Thursday, Timothy Gay, author and physics professor at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, delivered a presentation entitled "The Physics of Football" to an audience of a few hundred, including two dozen Old Dominion football players.
Delivered as part of the ODU Presents lecture series, Gay's talk covered his time "teaching" the world's largest physics class - via a series of short videos that played to more than 80,000 fans on the video board during Nebraska games.