[Ransomed]

Tell them there’s so much money in each NFL game it’s surprising the rules committee hasn’t instituted random/commercial break testing long ago. Unless the players, owners and refs were generally all down with it per quarterback/home field preference.

Freegards

[T. Rustin Noone]

I think you are on the right track. In the overall game the inflation of the football really doesn’t make a great deal of difference if any at all. I suspect that the refs know this and are willing to expand the written rules to accommodate individual preferences by the QB’s.

As for the reasons why the footballs are not checked, my guess is that the same forces that persuaded the rules committee to allow teams to use their own footballs are at work.

I change the grips on my golf clubs every once in a while and while I have my preferences for size and feel, at the end of a round the score is pretty much the same.

[lepton]

Unless the players, owners and refs were generally all down with it per quarterback/home field preference.

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Given that they began letting teams scuff up and process balls - for months beforehand - and then select which balls they were going to use - and then added on the ability for the visiting team to do the same for their balls - and given that previous more meaningful infractions have resulted in a reminder letter...that seems likely.

Of course now there’s a hysterical uninformed national tirade going on, so they might respond just about any old way.