NFL reminder that the only good ball is a cold ball (1 Viewer)

[spodog]

From nfl.com:

. . .during the game, cameras showed sideline attendants using heaters to warm frozen footballs. It was likely these attendants meant well, just trying to soften the balls a bit; however, that's a no-no.

League vice president of officiating Dean Blandino said Monday on NFL Network's NFL AM that both the Vikings and Panthers were warned during the contest.

"Yeah, you can't do anything with the footballs in terms of any artificial, whether you're heating them up, whether it's a regular game ball or kicking ball, you can't do anything to the football," Blandino said. "So that was noticed during the game, both teams were made aware of it during the game and we will certainly remind the clubs as we get into more cold weather games that you can't do anything with the football in terms of heating them up with those sideline heaters."

Let er rip . . .

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Is there shrinkage?

 

[Koya]

Only sure way to avoid ball cancer

 

[bostonfred]

Dock those teams a first round pick.