Chicago Bears Equipment Manager Put In Charge Of Super Bowl Footballs

[MohRokTah]

At least somebody from Da Bears is going to the Super Bowl. Looks like the NFL is taking the cheating cheaters seriously and will insure they don't cheat in the Super Bowl, at least where the balls are concerned:

Chicago Bears Equipment Manager Put In Charge Of Super Bowl Footballs

The Chicago Bears are in the Super Bowl! Well, kind of.

Bears equipment manager Tony Medlin has been put in charge of Super Bowl XLXI game balls, as he will secure and prepare the footballs before the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots do battle. Medlin along with a staff of ball boys were hired last week, before the “DeflateGate” news broke.

“Like many aspects of our policies and procedures, there are modifications for the Super Bowl,” NFL spokesman Michael Signora said, per ESPN.com. “At the Super Bowl, the equipment manager of another team (Medlin) is in charge of the game balls and arranging for the ball attendant crews, which are hired before the Super Bowl teams are determined. The officials will maintain strict control of the game balls for the Super Bowl.”

Signora added that changes could be coming in the wake of the NFL discovering 11 of the 12 balls the Pats used in their AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts were under-inflated.

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[underpants]

1. Someone's been Medlin with the balls

I know I know

[MohRokTah]

2. "They all know how I like the balls." -- Tom Brady

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Ok, so that takes care of cheating balls.

Now who is in charge of the performance enhancing drugs and pain killers?

[alarimer]

6. They should just dope everyone up.

No one is cheating if everyone is doing it. Plus it would be very amusing to see them all staggering around.

[MohRokTah]

10. There is a testing policy for the roids.

Not as effective as it should be, but still a policy.

Pain killers are a part of the game and won't stop any time soon, I'm afraid. It's sad because the use does result in some permanent injury for some players who play injured with the aid of injected pain killers.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. I must say, that's a load off my mind.

I've been worried sick that the professional pigskins wouldn't be properly pumped for the most important event of the year. Personally, I think it's well past time that Issa announced a congressional investigation into the matter.

[IDemo]

5. Our long national nightmare is over

[Paladin]

12. Yes, Chucky Todd scolded us this morning.

He said that when events in Yemen cause historians to look back at what The U.S. was concentrating its attention on at the time, and it turns out to be just a bunch of footballs....Well! Chucky said with a huffy voice, history isn't going to be very kind to us!

He really said that. I trust that all of you are suitably chastised.....

[MohRokTah]

13. We can chew gum and walk at the same time.

Chuck Toad thinks we might be incapable of paying attention to more than one story at a time, but that's ridiculous.

the ball thing is simply too much fun (in a very sophomoric way) to look away.

[IDemo]

14. He does have a point

A nation which seems completely content to fixate on Kardashian butt or the Obama girl's Beyonce musical choices, while totally ignoring the state of affairs in Africa and elsewhere, deserves a good spanking now and then.

[Paladin]

15. Sorry, as far as I'm concerned the messenger kills the message in this instance.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Wow, imagine the pressure.

[MohRokTah]

8. He's going to be sweating all over those balls. eom

[Dr. Strange]

16. It's okay.

The pressure will go down as the game progresses.

[Johonny]

9. Great now all the balls will be lost to a Green Bay cornerback

Damn you Cutler!

[MohRokTah]

11. As a Chicago BEars fan I must say...