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Originally Posted by cmpmichael
why aren't the balls provided by officials and team-agnostic?
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The balls that are used for kicks are, but the teams provide their own balls for their offense to use. The reason for this is that many QBs don't like throwing brand new balls. This way they can use some that are broken in. There is also a spectrum of how inflated the balls can be and some QBs want them higher on the spectrum than others.
Personally, I think it is crap. The league should set a standard for the balls, they should control the balls and if you QB doesn't like how they feel he can either get used to it you find a QB that is okay with it.
As far as I know every other sport has the officials oversee the balls to make certain there is no tampering.