The home team must make 12 backup balls available, and the visiting team may bring another 12 backup balls for games to be played outdoors. Several years ago, in an effort to prevent any doctoring of ...

Thorn said if the balls were at 7 psi and the specifications were 7.5 in 1973, “the referees wouldn’t have used the ball.’’ ...

2) The lack of smoking gun in re: violating league limits. The Wells Report asserts that references to deflation and to Brady’s preference for softer game balls in the texts exchanged between ...

According to NFL.com, the league's rule book states game balls must be inflated with between 12.5-13.5 pounds of air. Each team must provide 12 primary balls for testing prior to the game.

At page 13, the NFL makes clear that Goodell chose as a result of the arbitration hearing over which he presided not only to adopt the findings of non-independent investigator Ted Wells but to expand ...

But using an under-inflated ball to give your team an advantage is nothing new, at least in the NBA. Take a look at this 1986 story about the powerhouse New York Knicks of the 1970s, written by ...