Kickers Ball
Our crew did a playoff game last year. The umpire carries a pressure gage. He passed all but one ball, the white teams' kicking ball. (He marks the balls with a "Sharpie" X on one of the stripes.) Well, the white team scored first and the kicker came out with the flat ball that wasn't marked. I made him go back and get a legal ball. We didn't have any more problems after that.
We try not to be that picky about ball pressure, but this one was so flat that I could push both ends in past the stripes.
Why do kickers want flat balls? Do they really go further or is that just a myth. (They didn't let me touch the ball much in high school!)
[Edited by Tom Cook on Jul 17th, 2001 at 05:36 PM]
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Tue Jul 17, 2001, 05:32pm
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