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The New England Patriots got caught using "deflated" footballs during last weekend's AFC Championship game.
"Deflated" footballs allegedly are easier to throw and catch.
The Refs weigh the 12 footballs (12 for each team) before the game them give to the team ball boys for safe keeping prior to the game. At half time the Refs found that 11 of the 12 New England footballs had some air let out of them.
Hey! That's cheating'!
So if we are to believe Mssrs. Belichick & Brady, I guess it comes down to "the ball boy did it".
So.....can you imagine, some little ball boy, before an NFL playoff game, decides he's going to let the air out of the footballs without telling anyone.
Maybe it's that the ball boy decides he's going to prank possibly the most anal and detailed coach in NFL history and one of the most intense quarterbacks in NFL history during a playoff game.
Good plan!
Probably told his buddies "Dudes.....watch for something cool during the game....."
That's like me adding a selfie of my boss to his PowerPoint slides as he's presenting to the President and sitting in the back, laughing my butt off.
Didn't happen.
However, I'm sure there is one thing Belichick and Brady legitimately didn't understand; who the hell didn't deflate ball #12?!
4 comments:
Deflategate - I don't understand why each team has to "care for" 12 balls. It'd be like asking each NHL hockey team to keep a pail of pucks on their benches for the refs.
For the for Superbowl, independent, third parties have custody. Why not all the time, dunno?
Betcha didn't know that the home team in baseball - - provides the umpires the baseball's? The umpires then rub the balls with Lena Blackburne's Rubbing mud to give the ball better gripping qualities. The mud must be from this one supplier in south Jersey. After their rub down, the home ball boys is then given custody of the balls who will occasionally through the game give the home plate umpire refills. That's why those who have caught a ball at the game you sometimes notice the red tinge of the rubbing sand on the balls. Again - - who knew?
I remember you once got a ball at a game. But by that time you didn't notice anything!
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