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I thought each team equipment managers handled its own team's footballs. Are the Ravens claiming that their own equipment managers deflated the Ravens own footballs?
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Get StartedOh and why aren't the NFL refs checking the balls before the game?
Pretty damn easy to do..
Refs check balls make sure they are right.
right...and if you get caught you have to pay a penalty.
from what I hear they do inspect the balls prior to the game...but not right before kickoff. It would be pretty easy for equipment guys to let a little air out of the balls.
Gaylord Perry still made the HOF... Pretty sure he was caught
a few times..
HOF is a different story. I think Pete Rose, Bonds and Clemons should be in the HOF even though they used cheated
Is Tom Brady a HOF then?
As a QB, how could you not know?
As a ref who handles the ball, how could you not know? If a defensive back can touch the ball one time and immediately realize something was wrong with the ball, why didn't the refs when they handled them? This story is probably worse than the media calling Suh dirty and then showing him stepping on Rodgers in slow motion, making it seem like he intentionally stood on Rodgers for a few seconds.
Didn't I read somewhere that actually Colts defenders were told to turn over the Pats footballs to their own equipment managers in the event of a turnover?
Maybe the guy didn't know. Maybe the Colts suspected that something was afoot going in.
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