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The Best Tech Game Ball Deliveries Ever

You can’t start the game without the ball, so why not deliver it in style? After this guy rode into the Portuguese Cup Final on a hoverboard, it’s clear tech is leading this pregame tradition into the future with dramatic — and often wacky — spectacles.

With all eyes trained on the field, ball deliveries have proven to be a popular sponsorship opportunity, too, like DHL’s RC car that delivered a rugby ball to the field.

An honorable mention goes to this humanoid, who clearly underestimated his own strength, and overestimated his accuracy. The Philadelphia Phillies still went on to record the second-most strikeouts in the majors in 2012, despite Skynet’s glitches.

 

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