NFL refs forget balls at hotel before Patriots game
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady shouted as he took the field to warm up before a divisional playoff football game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday in Foxborough, Mass.
BOSTON » This ball controversy can’t be blamed on the Patriots.
Massachusetts State Police came to the rescue before Saturday’s NFL playoff game between New England and the Kansas City Chiefs by delivering footballs that game officials left at their hotel.
A state police spokesman said at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, league officials contacted the Hyatt at Logan Airport to say that some balls and air pressure gauges had been left behind. The balls were the ones used in the kicking game.
Hotel workers entered the room and a state trooper drove the equipment to Gillette Stadium, arriving about an hour before kickoff.
The Patriots beat the Chiefs 27-20.
The officials’ gaffe came about a year after the start of the “Deflategate” scandal, when the Patriots were accused of using underinflated balls. The drama led to league changes in how footballs are handled before games.
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18 responses to “NFL refs forget balls at hotel before Patriots game”
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Men should never forget their balls.
The police transported the balls? Why do I have thigs gnawing feeling that in 1.5 years, we will see video of what ACTUALLY happened to the balls during transport, and that there will be massive protests over it?
Hmmm
Nothing to see here folks, move along…
Can’t look at my balls.
Ever since the ‘spygate’ and ‘deflate-gate’ incidents; I’ll always have a doubt about the Patriots.
Ballgate?
Good try belicheat
Huh? Oops, the headlines sure doesn’t seem it belongs in a family newspaper!
Lucie Ball?
Aloha SA, am I ban from making any comments? Twice this morning comments from me went to “limbo”! Both are quite mild and decent like some here! It’s not my forte to stray outside the circle of decency.
Turns out just to be a delay with commenting here. Patience, my dear.
Coach Belicheat must have deleted it lol
Who is coach, Ballicheat? He can’t be forgetting the ball. Pun.
And we expect them to officiate at games too ?
Don’t those refs realize that if they spend an entire night binge-drinking before a game they can come down with a severe case of Brady-enza!
No, that would be Manzielitis.
That esplains the way the refs were acting on the field..all mahooish!