SF Standard analyzes how the EMF substation story has dominated Super Bowl LX coverage. Fred Warner dismisses the theory as 'false,' but Kyle Juszczyk wants answers for even 'a quarter of a percent' advantage.
"I think it's false. And I'll be the first to tell you, because I train year-round at our facility, right? And I'm not going to sit here and say that a substation was the reason why I got my ankle broke in half. That was a fluke injury."
"As professional athletes, we're looking for every little tiny advantage. That little extra half a percent. And even if maybe [the substation] is just hurting us a quarter of a percent, whatever it is, that's something that we want to know and account for."
"I would just caution again against drawing any conclusions based on publicly-available data sources. One of the things that's been said is that that club has led the league in non-direct contact lower extremity injuries. That's simply not true. That's false."
"The 49ers face an inconvenient truth. Doctors can share available facts, but there are no studies that completely debunk the idea that EMF waves could make players a 'quarter of a percent' more susceptible to injuries... It's a perception issue that isn't disappearing, at least until the next Jerry Rice shows up in Santa Clara."