Sunday Bengals Game Will Be Cold Weather

[*Go Cards*]

(11-17-2022, 12:45 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Not sure if you've ever held a cold football, but it doesn't really work that way. The colder it gets, the flatter the ball gets which makes it tougher for kickers because the ball doesn't travel as far. Their foot may get really cold and footing can be hazardous but the football doesn't get 'brick like'. 

Yep the molecules move faster and expand a football when warm and deflates slightly if cold enough.

But they do use different footballs for kicking than regular plays. You always see the kickers massaging the ball trying to use friction to help compensate for it on the sidelines. 

Not positive if that's the balls they take out or not, but was given one of those balls after the Bengals beat the steelers by Maualuga in his rookie season. The ball does have the Bengals name stamped on it. So maybe they each have their own, not positive. But have definitely seen the kickers doing this many times. Also the heater is always in close proximity of where their kicking net is and the balls lay if they do use their own, and to warm their leg and foot before going out on field. 

But either way cold air is way more dense and harder to kick distance in anyway.