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22 days agoTrue, but remember that these cleats aren’t “most shoes” and include some comparatively exotic materials. They’ll stop holding their shape well before 350°F or literal melting into liquid. Having worked with similar materials in the past and having just refreshed my memory with some spec sheets because you piqued my curiosity, I buy it.
- PU shoe adhesives are designed to reactivate at roughly 50–80°C. This would absolutely have turned into goo.
- EVA foam softens and takes a permanent set around 60–90°C. Squished, deformed foam is “melted” to most people.
- Soft TPU and TPR are long past their rated temperature by then, but they creep and get gummy well below their melt point. Players reported “soft plastic” causing issues and I’d bet this is why.
Otherwise, 157°F is one reading of the turf surface (I’m assuming, at least — haven’t seen documentation of how this was measured). Contact points, dark spots, a foot grinding in all have a shot at being even hotter.
It doesn’t matter. Wiretap laws, including federal and many state laws, don’t care if the recording is saved or even if an audio recording is created in the first place. Under the Federal Wiretap Act (18 U.S.C. § 2510(4)), an “interception” is defined as the “aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device.” Many state laws make it illegal the moment the audio is saved into an ephemeral buffer, which Apple does.