Lady Steel
01-24-2015, 11:18 PM
Only the NFL could come up with the convoluted system it has for delivering a football into the field of play during a game and the steps that lead up to it.
Did they ask the IRS to help devise it?
It is only exasperated for how they use footballs in the Super Bowl.
Each team during the regular season and playoffs receives 12 footballs each week that will be used in that week’s game. They can practice with them, beat them up, put them through the wringer, whatever. They then must be delivered to the ref before the game and he checks them for the proper air pressure.
For the Super Bowl, each team receives 108 footballs in the weeks leading up to the game — roughly two for each player on their roster — and they again can do what they want with them, but 54 must be delivered to the officials for use in the Super Bowl game.
Why so many? Because the NFL, in its voracious appetite to squeeze every last drop out of its product and/or satisfy its sponsors, tries to switch out a ball on every play so it can either be sold or given to sponsors as a “Super Bowl game-used football.” It makes the league look as though it is more concerned about a few bucks than it is the actual biggest game of the season.
And this is a league that shows so much concern for the “integrity of the game?”
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/01/25/On-the-Steelers-Issues-with-footballs-have-simple-solution/stories/201501250137
Did they ask the IRS to help devise it?
It is only exasperated for how they use footballs in the Super Bowl.
Each team during the regular season and playoffs receives 12 footballs each week that will be used in that week’s game. They can practice with them, beat them up, put them through the wringer, whatever. They then must be delivered to the ref before the game and he checks them for the proper air pressure.
For the Super Bowl, each team receives 108 footballs in the weeks leading up to the game — roughly two for each player on their roster — and they again can do what they want with them, but 54 must be delivered to the officials for use in the Super Bowl game.
Why so many? Because the NFL, in its voracious appetite to squeeze every last drop out of its product and/or satisfy its sponsors, tries to switch out a ball on every play so it can either be sold or given to sponsors as a “Super Bowl game-used football.” It makes the league look as though it is more concerned about a few bucks than it is the actual biggest game of the season.
And this is a league that shows so much concern for the “integrity of the game?”
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2015/01/25/On-the-Steelers-Issues-with-footballs-have-simple-solution/stories/201501250137