Rule 2 of the official NFL rule book requires that each team make “12 primary balls available for testing” two hours and 15 minutes before kickoff. The home team must make 12 backup balls available, and the visiting team may bring another 12 backup balls for games to be played outdoors.The existence of a league investigation suggests that the referee failed to properly check the specifications of the balls, the referee didn’t properly secure the balls before they were given to the ball attendant, or something happened to the balls after they were given to the ball attendant. It has been confirmed that 11 of the 12 Patriots game balls were 2psi under. So, sounds like the NFL refs fugged it up. Who from that side will be punished? Blandino? Goodell?
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