Quote Originally Posted by Pugger View Post
The league let the inmates run the asylum when it came to game balls by allowing teams to prepare them instead of the league. The irony in all of this is Brady, along with Manning and others, petitioned the league to change the rules!
That is one thing that LaCanfora's article about changes in the League Office doesn't cover. He openly wonders if the old guard would have botched this so badly.

But Ray Anderson, the Operations guy before Troy Vincent, was the person who put rules into place for QBs to prep the balls.