How the NFL Cheats: Ball Tampering

October 7, 2016   ·   Dan Pompei   ·   Jump to comments

Whether you call it breaking the rules, bending the rules or just getting creative with the rules, cheating has always been a part of the NFL and always will be. This is Part 5 in a Bleacher Report series on how NFL players and teams seek out some advantage, any advantage, over their competition. Part 1 was on the use of foreign substances, Part 2 on gaining an extra edge at home, Part 3 on what goes on at the bottom of a pile and Part 4 on spying on opponents.
       
Deflategate might finally be in the past when Tom Brady returns from his four-game suspension this weekend. If we're lucky, we may never hear another word about quarterbacks deflating, inflating or tampering with footballs in any other way.
But that won't mean they're not still doing it.
In so many ways, Brady is unlike any quarterback who has played the game. But in this one way, he is like virtually every quarterback who ever...

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