NFL Investigating Chargers For Stickum Use

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:Realgm

The San Diego Chargers are under investigation by the NFL for using a banned illegal Stickum-type substance in Monday's game against the Broncos.

The NFL banned the substance in 1981.

 

[Sportsguy9695]

I heard about this well atleast it didnt help them since they lost the game

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Jay Glazer announced that they caught the equipment manager of Chargers applying something from a towel to the receivers and when he wouldn't give it up initially when confronted. Then soon after they got someone to make him empty his pockets and he has a clear sticker type substance that's been banned and gives a competitive advantage.

This all happened during Broncos game.

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

There goes Norv Turner either way lol.

 

[Lake Louise]

When I thought of this, my first thought was The Replacements, with Clifford Franklin "Coach, it looks like I just jerked off an elephant."

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

Fromrofootballtalk.com

Towel maker: Chargers were using our product, not Stickum



In a new twist on this week’s oddest NFL story, a company that makes hand towels specifically designed for athletes says that the Chargers were using its product — not Stickum or any other prohibited adhesive — during the Monday night incident in which officials suspected Chargers players were violating league rules.

The NFL is investigating whether the Chargers were using an adhesive substance like Stickum (which was once popular with NFL receivers and defensive backs but was banned by the league more than 30 years ago) during their Monday night loss to the Broncos. Chargers coach Norv Turner said his players weren’t using Stickum but were just using a type of towel that the Chargers have used for years. However, Turner did not specify what kind of towel it was.

Now the towel-making company Gorilla Gold has come forward to say the Chargers were using its Gorilla Gold Grip Enhancer towels, which use “all-natural resins” to improve the grips of athletes in many sports. Gorilla Gold says its products leave no residue on the football and are not against the rules.

“In regards to the recent NFL controversy involving Norv Turner and the San Diego Chargers,” the company said in a statement, “they were not the first, nor are they the only team or players to use Gorilla Gold. It has been in use by many teams including the CFL for over ten years on the field, on the sideline, and in the training room.”

Gorilla Gold did not name any other NFL teams or any NFL players who use its towels, and the NFL has not said publicly whether Gorilla Gold towels are permitted under league rules. When the league’s investigation is completed, we’ll all learn more about what the NFL permits
players to put on their hands during games. And the Chargers could learn that players putting the wrong products on their hands could cost the team draft picks.

Fromrofootballtalk.com

Manufacturer provides possible smoking gun in Towelgate



If the folks at Gorilla Gold were trying to help the Chargers by taking responsibility for the item that was confiscated last week during the Monday night game between San Diego and Denver, it likely won’t work. If the folks at Gorilla Gold were looking to help themselves gain publicity and/or notoriety, it likely will.

As explained by MDS, Gorilla Gold claims that the Chargers use their product, which “supplies a light tack, much like a tackified glove” and that “leaves no discernable residue on the surface of the ball.” The president of the company tells U-T San Diego that 70 percent of NFL teams have used the towel at some point.

That doesn’t make it permissible.

Rule 5, Section 4, Article 4(h) of the NFL rulebook prohibits “[a]dhesive or slippery substances on the body, equipment, or uniform of any player; provided, however, that players may wear gloves with a tackified surface if such tacky substance does not adhere to the football or otherwise cause handling problems for players.”

The fact that the towel creates an effect “like a tackified glove” means that it’s not a tackified glove, and thus not permitted to be used.

Besides, it’s not clear that the item taken by officials was a Gorilla Gold towel. On Monday, coach Norv Turner clumsily declined to identify the maker of the towel, saying that “[t]he towel is used to dry the balls, the gloves the players use and their arms.” Moreover, it’s still possible that something else entirely was being used by the Chargers.

It’ll be interesting to see whether the investigation expands to determine which teams have used and/or are still using Gorilla Gold.

SMH

 

[Pugz]

lol towelgate.

 

[Elite]

I find it hard to believe any Gorilla Grip products would be legal by the NFL.