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So why didn't Luck say something during the first half? Did he complain after the game?
Each team has their own balls. The only time on of the Colts could have ever touched one of the Pat's balls (okay, this is sounding bad! ) would be to pick up a fumble or intercept a pass. Luck & the Colts have their own footballs.I can't fathom why there's a rule about football air pressure in the first place. Why on Earth can't each QB decide how much air they prefer in the ball? So long as the footballs are all identical regulation balls why not let everyone air 'em as they see fit? Aaron Rodgers prefers the football to be overinflated. I realize the NFL is one of the most byzantine bureaucracies on the planet but why a rule to govern that?
Rob: Agreed! why not keep the regs on football design (size, dimensions, weight etc) but drop the rule on pressure. Then allow each offense to use the pressure which they prefer in their footballs. Also, each kicker would have their own balls with their desired pressure.This approach makes sense, keeps it fair, and will allow each offense to perform at their best.
Always just assumed the league furnished the balls. Why don't they? That would remove any chance of this controversy erupting again. Then air pressure would be out of the hands of the teams.
QBs like them roughed up to varying degrees. They come with an oily film on the leather that is almost always removed, some QBs want them steel brush scrubbed, some want them just cleaned, and everywhere in between. The league allows this. On the other hand, kicker's balls are supplied by the league and handled only by officials. Apparently kickers were worse than QBs in tampering with the balls.
This is the longest conversation about balls I've seen since the eighth grade!
That's Great In my townThe Mayor of Baltimore was just on Meet The Press discussing issues from Islamists to the "Deflategate" and she said that the Patriots should be banned form the Superbowl and it should be a Ravens vs Seahawks game LOVE IT! As a Ravens fan I am still stinging from the loss to the cheaters which in our game they did a couple of "sneaky" rule bending plays, even though we did deserve to loose
My Super Bowl wish was a Ravens/Seahawks matchup. I thought the Ravens physicality would be a nice equalizer against the Seahawks athleticism.But we all know what the conversation would be if the Ravens were playing this week...Ray Rice all over again...and how the Ravens and Goodell fumbled on how to handle it from the beginning.
