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Now that Bellichick has pointed his finger at Brady, and Brady is untouchable, some lackey equipment manager is going to be told to fall on his sword to protect them all.
In the end it will not matter at all. This is probably more widespread of a practice than we care to imagine. Just think about it; The refs OK the balls and turn them back into the care of the individual teams. That is the end of oversight unless someone asks. In the big business of football, why wouldn't you try to get whatever advantage you can? Couple of pounds here or there. How about scenario where the ball the kicking team provides for a kickoff are over pressure but the kicker loves them and they are harder to catch?
The easy fix is to have the refs be in control of all the balls used in a game. They have a big basket of approved ones and the ball boy just takes one out of the pile to send into the game. All vestiges of illegal tampering or unfair advantage are gone with this one change.
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