I blame manning and Brady for lobbying the rules committee to get separate balls for each team.
I think the league should supply however many regulation balls and that’s what they use in the game.
Kickers as well.
It never made any difference before last year, and it still doesn’t.
Did you hear about the officials for the Patriots-Kansas City game this past weekend?
They are supposed to have some kind of stupid rigorous program with logs, calibrated gauges, chain of custody, and so on, because God knows how vitally important to the integrity of the game all of this is.
They left the balls at the hotel. They had to send an “escort” back to the hotel to get them.
That is how stupidly important all of this is.