Conference Championship thread

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by OmahaRedskins

Has anybody seen this post?

Brad Johnson paid a bribe to tamper with footballs at the Super Bowl | ProFootballTalk

I can relate to this a little bit as I was a QB in HS. The new balls are very slick, much harder to grip and harder to spin, at least for me. Especially if you don't have real big hands. The refs would come to the games with brand new balls, maybe 4-5 of them and those were the ones to be used in the game. I would tell our manger to put the new balls back in the ball bag and play with our practice balls. Those balls were old, beat up but MUCH easier to grip and throw a spiral with. Back then it wasn't a big deal and they would let you play with whatever ball you wanted. Anyhow, the manger was responsible to rotating our practice balls during the games. Really not a big deal at all. My coach John Harvill would get on me about it and would say..."you should be able to throw any ball!"..but that wasn't the case. Hated new balls and never used them.