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Re: 2016 Boulder weight issue

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Originally Posted by bobcroucher View Post
We don't know how much of this is due to the older ball being broken in, but we don't believe that it ever flew that poorly even when new.
While we didn't take any measurements of it, I definitely remember our ball being much harder to compress on kickoff day than it is now. My initial impression was that it had about 3/4" of foam over a stiff core, now it's clearly memory foam all the way through.
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