I’ve read most of the threads on FR on this and have heard stories on FNC. While it does seem a bit suspicious, I honestly don’t know what happened.
That said, I hope they lock up the balls for the Super Bowl after the refs approve them and no one has access to them until the beginning of the game.
Here’s an excerpt from the story below regarding Wilson’s making of the SB balls:
Far from deflate-gate, football factory prepares for Super Bowl
By Garrett Tenney
Published January 26, 2015
“The final touch, and one most sports fans are very familiar with now, is inflating each ball until it has 13-pounds of air pressure inside – right down the middle of the NFL-mandated range of 12.5-13.5 pounds of pressure.
“The balls leave here they have 13 pounds of air in them, and that’s our goal here to send out a quality football,” explains Wilson Factory Manager, Dan Reigle.
The football factory shipped out 104 game balls for the Super Bowl to the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks the day after the championship game was decided.”
GO SEAHAWKS!!!
There’s no literal home team, so the NFL provides the ball attendants for the Superbowl.