Bucs QB used altered footballs in Super Bowl

[jasonluckydog]

Brad's chances at the HOF are over now..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol. j/k just wanted to type that.

[t96]

so they get an asterisk, right?

The 3 they have already have asterisks.

[rodeo]

Aaron Rogers freely admits that the Packers alter balls for him, too. I haven't seen a single player, even from the Colts, thinking this is any sort of scandal.

[Seltzer]

Just an FYI... Remember after the 2003 Super Bowl it came out a Columbia doctor was supposedly providing steroids to most of our offensive line

Probably would have been a bigger deal had we won but still... Glass houses and all...

We were remarkably healthy on the O line that year

[KendrickPanther]

That Super Bowl was full of bizarre things. The Center for the Raiders disappeared the night before the game. It was widely rumoured because Bill Callahan hated working for the raiders so much he changed the entire gameplan and hand signals days before the Super Bowl in an effort to lose. The center who was already dealing with his own demons couldn't take the pressure of relearning it all and fled. Pretty sure he was found dead years later.

 

Roughing up football is nothing new. And to be fair to Brad Johnson, it's kind of ridiculous to have 100 balls used in the game (undoubtedly for resale as souvenirs) and not have them broken in. Every QB and kick in the NFL makes an effort to break the balls in as much as they can. Going outside the permitted specifications is a bigger deal to me.

[KendrickPanther]

Aaron Rogers freely admits that the Packers alter balls for him, too. I haven't seen a single player, even from the Colts, thinking this is any sort of scandal.

 

As a singular event deflated balls is probably not a big deal. But it happens in a high profile game with a history of breaking and bending rules. They took a Running Back from us this off season and said "there are no unwritten rules". They used really advanced forms of tackle eligible shenanigans and proclaimed "it's in the rule book, figure it out". And now we have a clear deviation from the rules so people are getting their licks in on a franchise that points to the rule book when it suits them.

[Davidson Deac II]

So the 100 balls were used by both teams, correct?

 

If so, then its not a big deal.  Although I also wonder how they were able to get access to the balls in the first place. 

[KintnerBoy]

My guess is they took his money but didn't actually do anything to the balls.

[Mother Grabber]

that'll get you kicked out of a MLB game.

[hepcat]

The entire United States government is corrupt and we care about garbage like this.  No wonder our country is about to go the way of Rome.

[Pox 08]

Depends on what balls the other teams used.

 

 

 

The Colts/Pats situation seems to be only one team had the advantage.   No one believes Luck and his WRs would have loved to have deflated balls,  instead of watching slippery, wet rocks bounce off their WRs hands or chest?  During a rain game,  that advantage can be massive. especially when the team that didn't have the deflated balls,  runs a pass heavy offense,  in the pouring rain.