drew brees was on sportscenter this morning and said there are all kinds of things done to footballs before a game. he said there's even some type of mississippi mud that gets rubbed on them. i hadn't heard of that before.
i don't think the patriots did anything out of the ordinary from what other teams do. the fact that QBs can pick which balls they want to use for a game has probably surprised most people. i imagine the rules committee will take a long look this summer at procedures for taking care of footballs before kickoff. if nothing else, there is certainly the appearance of impropriety here that is yet another nightmare for the league and their PR dept., and this comes on top of bungling the ray rice incident and how they've ignored domestic abuse for quite some time.