[sten]

weren’t the balls used by BOTH quarterbacks?

if one had an advantage, then BOTH had the same advantage

failing to see the issue

[Colofornian]

weren’t the balls used by BOTH quarterbacks? if one had an advantage, then BOTH had the same advantage failing to see the issue

(No, each team has its own dozen balls submitted to head ref pre-game)

[FamiliarFace]

Reiterating what the other poster said in reply. Each team brings it’s own balls to the game...a rule, mind you, that was changed at the request of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning a few years ago. It used to be that all of the balls were provided by the home team. Not so, any more.

So the issue is that balls for the Patriots didn’t measure up, and that’s why we have all of the hullabaloo that we do right now.