How Do NFL Teams Really Cheat?

February 6, 2015   ·   Matt Bowen   ·   Jump to comments

Everyone in the NFL cheats. 
I get why people don't want to admit this. I really do. Professionals aren't supposed to bend the rules and look for cracks in the shield to gain even the smallest of advantages. So when Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots get caught up in Deflategate leading up to the Super Bowl, it becomes bigger national news than the game itself. Because people want to think the game is perfectly clean.
But we all know it isn't.
In my career as a player, I didn't hear much about deflated footballs. But I know every quarterback works on them to get them ready for games, and I know if there's an advantage to be had, someone has figured it out.
Just this past week, another story hit the wire, with the Falcons admitting they pumped crowd noise into the Georgia Dome for home games. They cheated.
Was it surprising? Not really. Everyone who played at the old Metrodome in Minneapolis knows the Vikings were doing the sam...

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