[Thresher]

This has been bugging me for a few weeks now.

A few years ago the NFL instituted a rule that no longer allowed kickers to have access to the balls they would be kicking in a game before the game started. They applied a K stamp to the kicking ball. From my recollection it was because the NFl wanted more parody in the league, to make the last minute kicks more exciting because of a slicker and more wild ball.

So why have they now instituted this new rule where the QB and the equipment manager can scuff, wear in, have sex with balls before the games?

I do not understand why the NFL would make one rule increasing parody then just two or three years later add a rule making it easier for qb's to hang onto the ball and thus less parody.

Please weigh in and straighten me out.

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