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Scott Fujita on Deflategate and player safety
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Even after two years of tedious debate over whether or not Tom Brady and the Patriots could have masterminded a plot to mildly deflate some footballs, the NFL does not plan to use microchips installed in footballs to track PSI numbers.
The NFL is putting microchips in footballs, though. The goal of the chips is to help determine whether or not the league should narrow the uprights -- a set of "instrumented" footballs will be used in the preseason in order to figure out exactly where footballs are crossing the invisible plane.