[FatherofFive]

They both played with the same balls.

The Patriots - who I hate - won the game with soft balls or hard balls. This is a non-issue.

[Colofornian]

They both played with the same balls.

Only for special teams' plays.

Otherwise, each time supplies balls for their own offenses.

In fact, guess who it was in 2006 that was lobbying the NFL so that the offenses could indeed supply their own footballs? (Yup, Tom Brady...and another little-known Q named Peyton)

So teams have been supplying their own offensive footballs since 2007...exactly coinciding when the Pats' fumble ratio suddenly - year-in, year-out - began going off the charts! (Some of those years, the Pat defense fumbled more than the Pat RB!)

Brady's completion % suddenly spiked upward starting in '07!