At the NFL combine they use a system that uses lasers to time the forty. You put your hands on a strip and once you take the pressure off the strip the timer begins and once you break a laser at the end the time stops. That sound pretty accurate to me and a lot of people have ran forty times that were faster than 4.38 -- FORDHAM RAMS FOOTBALL FORUM

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Subject: At the NFL combine they use a system that uses lasers to time the forty. You put your hands on a strip and once you take the pressure off the strip the timer begins and once you break a laser at the end the time stops. That sound pretty accurate to me and a lot of people have ran forty times that were faster than 4.38

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Date Posted: 18:38:56 05/16/05 Mon
In reply to: 4.Ram 's message, "Nice try, Flash. It's widely accepted that the fastest time EVER for 40 yards is 4.38 seconds by Ben Johnson on his way to setting world record in the 100M in '88. Oh, by the way, Johnson was on steroids at the time, and was stripped of his gold and the record. I know the NFL likes to think most of their players are faster than the world's premier sprinters, but ..." on 00:20:01 05/15/05 Sun

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You have a source for this? Last I heard, they were still using hand-timing at the NFL combine. (NT) Get a clue and give a link. 19:08:27 05/16/05 Mon

Re: You have a source for this? Last I heard, they were still using hand-timing at the NFL combine. -- maacfb, 11:08:03 05/18/05 Wed

Re: At the NFL combine they use a system that uses lasers to time the forty. You put your hands on a strip and once you take the pressure off the strip the timer begins and once you break a laser at the end the time stops. That sound pretty accurate to me and a lot of people have ran forty times that were faster than 4.38 2 Different Sports 2 Different forms of timing 13:40:47 07/19/05 Tue

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