State Police had to deliver forgotten K-balls for Patriots-Chiefs

[KamaAina]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/state-police-had-to-deliver-forgotten-k-balls-for-patriots-chiefs-144409367.html

Here's a story the NFL probably didn't want getting out: last Saturday, game officials forgot the bag of kicking balls and air-pressure gauges for the New England Patriots-Kansas City Chiefs game at their hotel, and Massachusetts State Police had to deliver them to Gillette Stadium. They arrived just an hour before the 4:35 p.m. EST kickoff....

"At approximately 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Massachusetts State police at Logan Airport were notified by the Hyatt Hotel on airport property that the officials at Gillette Stadium for that afternoon's Patriots' playoff game had left official, specially designated footballs and pressure gauges behind at the hotel," Procopio said. "The hotel had been contacted by the NFL after it realized the equipment had been left behind.

"State Police contacted an NFL security official at Gillette Stadium. NFL security requested State Police assistance in bringing the footballs and gauges to the stadium... A hotel employee retrieved the equipment. State Police Detective Lieutenant Thomas Coffey, who was on duty at Troop F that afternoon, along with the hotel employee, drove the K-balls and gauges to Gillette Stadium, arriving at approximately 3:30 p.m., and turned them over to the NFL."

It's ironic, of course, that the ball mishap would have happened for a Patriots' playoff game; the game against the Chiefs came nearly a year to the day after the AFC Championship at Gillette Stadium, the day the Indianapolis Colts touched off l'affaire deflate-gate when they told league officials that a ball intercepted by D'Qwell Jackson in the first half felt under-inflated.

[madinmaryland]

1. Belicheat is at it again.

[hughee99]

2. Exactly! I knew there was a reason the patriots won.

What I suspect happened is that Belicheat used his mind control device (the same one he used to get Chuck Pagano to call that fake punt) to get the refs to forget the kicking balls and gauges at the hotel room so his people had time to go in and replace them with special equipment that was friendly to the Patriots but not to the Chiefs. Either that or the refs and/or NFL were in on it too, since we know that Belicheat has such a good working relationship with them.

My only question is, why doesn't he just use the mind control device on the refs during the game instead of going through all this trouble. Maybe he did use it on Andy Reid during the game though, which would explain his awful clock management.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Never hurts to have a second set of prints on a football

[joeybee12]

4. And didn't the NFL make a stink about how they were going to monitor

PSI very closely because they take this matter soooooooooooo seriously. Gimme an effing break.