On the Steelers: Issues with footballs have simple solution

[Lady Steel]

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/s...s/201501250137

[Texasteel]

Integrity of the game, protecting the shield, players safety. All this is just lip service, total bullshit. I don't think they even care if we buy it or not anymore. It's not the game, or the fans, or the players, these will always be there. It's the corporations, to be exact, the money they bring in.

[Count Steeler]

Sure would be nice to see an empty stadium at the SB. At least all the football fans should stay away. But the SB is not about football anymore, commercials, corporate schmooze, commercials, half time BS, commercials, a little bit of football, commercials, etc.

[Texasteel]

What's worse, sometimes the SB commercials get as much attention as the game does.

[ALLD]

Protecting the Cash Flow is what The Shield is all about.

[steelreserve]

Biggest football game of the year? Pfft. The Super Bowl isn't about football. It is an Experience.

Funny how it used to be that Super Bowl tickets were pretty difficult to get a hold of, but if you really wanted one you could get it. Now you have to know someone, or win a lottery. The whole thing is just an overblown cartoon of itself.