A TESLA ROBOT JUST KICKED A FIELD GOAL AND THE HIGHEST PAID POSITION IN FOOTBALL
SUDDENLY LOOKS FRAGILE Nobody was supposed to be filming this. Optimus walks out to the 30, lines up on the ball, plants, swings, and puts it through the uprights like it has done it a thousand times. Because it has.
Kicking is the one job in sports that is pure repetition. Same distance, same angle, same swing, no defender in your face. A machine that never gets nervous, never pulls a hamstring, never misses in the fourth quarter with the season on it.
The part that should bother people is the boredom. It does not celebrate. It walks back and does it again. And again. That is the whole training loop, running for free while everyone sleeps.
Every argument against robots doing real work goes the same way. Too fiddly, too physical, needs feel. Then the video shows up and the argument quietly moves to the next job.
Kickers get paid millions to be consistent. What happens when consistency stops being rare?