Troy Aikman: 'I will go to my grave saying Tom Brady knew that the balls were deflated" | THE HERD

I've talked to a lot of guys about customizing footballs I hate deflategate I'm over the story Spygate forget it deflategate I barely care but Eli Manning has a process he goes through to customize footballs Peyton Manning was one of the first to do it it doesn't bother me it really doesn't can you take me through your process go to go to your high school days Troy go to UCLA Oklahoma when did you first start give me the football let me rough it up well at UCLA when I when I really began to play in high school I you know in Oklahoma I don't even know that they had any regulations on footballs there but at UCLA in college we used the balls all week long broke them in got them to where we liked them and then we would mark the balls and each team brought their own bag of balls to the stadium which was not the way it was done when I was in the NFL in fact you know I would talk to John Elway and Dan Marino and Warren Moon and Jim Kelly and these guys and we would always get together and say all these rules are being done to try to promote scoring at that time but yet the one thing that would help the most is the conditions of the footballs and yet we're not able to bring the footballs that we like best and then it's my understanding the Peyton Manning and Tom Brady got together and in several years back they went to the the commissioner and they were able to get it passed that each team now in the league gets to bring their balls the way that they like them so there is a process Eli Manning talks about it we went through it trying to get the balls in the best condition that you can you know so when I heard you earlier say Matt Leinart said everybody does it I agree with that everybody every quarterback has the footballs the way that they like them but here's the difference is that once they go through inspection and balls are either accepted or they're rejected that's the end of the story that's it now it feels like in New England there was subterfuge or a little other layer oh that's what that's right I mean that's just being said and and I still haven't seen where anyone mm-hmm has been where it's been determined that air was not let out of the balls you know I haven't read anywhere where that now is a certainty that okay well no one deflated the balls and if that happened if balls were deflated as I said a week after it all happened if balls were deflated I will go to my grave saying that Tom Brady knew that the balls were then being deflated because the only reason balls are deflated is if that's how the quarterback likes the footballs I know that from experience

Channel: The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Keywords: troy aikman, deflategate, tom brady, deflation, deflated, deflate, deflate-gate, patriots, new england, ne, n.e., spygate, cheating, cheater, cheaters, the herd, colin cowherd, radio, sports, news

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Length: 2min 29sec (149 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 08 2015