re: Who owns the footballs?

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U jelly that your kickers blow arse?

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Nah. Just tired of all the flame threads, and wondered if someone had some specifics about the custodianship of the footballs used in a game.

If you want an edge over another golfer, get his golf balls and put them in a freezer overnight. Denver used to keep their baseballs in a cold room, which kept more of them in the stadium in the thin air.

If you can find a legal advantage, you're crazy if you don't use it. If you can find an illegal advantage, you need to learn how to get away with it.

Mash

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Helium gas has half the density of air, and a regulation football pumped full of it weighs around 7 grams less than an air-filled one. Since a lighter ball would create less drag (friction) mid-air, you might deduce that it would go farther. But as the MythBusters realized after booting a boatload of air- and helium-filled footballs, simple deduction is no match for Newton's laws of motion.

Newton's Second Law states that an object's force is equal to its mass multiplied by its acceleration. The greater the mass, the greater the force (or inertia). Therefore, the slightly heavier air-filled football actually pushes through the air with greater force, flying slightly farther than a lighter helium-filled football.

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Maybe fill it with a heavier gas?