Tim Hasselbeck: Football with pink ribbon decal is 'a disaster'
It's just a small pink ribbon on the official NFL football, but former quarterback Tim Hasselbeck says players tell him the ball is "a disaster."
"No one's talking about this," Hasselbeck said on ESPN's "Mike and Mike" show. "They're playing with these breast cancer awareness balls. These balls are brand new, right out of the bag. Now they get slick -- I texted a couple quarterbacks during the [Monday night] game. They all said, 'These balls have been a disaster.' So I think that's something to note."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told Pro Football Talk, via email: "They are not different."
There were four fumbles in the Vikings-Jets game, which was delayed because of a thunderstorm in New Jersey: three were by Brett Favre (who lost two of them) and one was by LaDainian Tomlinson. Twenty of Favre's 34 passes were incomplete; 23 of Mark Sanchez's 44 were incomplete.
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| October 12, 2010; 1:09 PM ET
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