Stickum, as I understand it, left a nasty residue on the ball. I remember reading years ago about the refs complaining about the state of the balls during Raiders games.
I don't understand this comment. Had Rice been using stickum the officials would have known and he would have been thrown out.
And if you watch him, he wasn't doing stickum receptions. They basically consisted of sticking your palms out and letting the stickum do the work. Rice caught the ball and with a perfect technique.
So I don't understand.
[ Edited by English on Feb 7, 2015 at 1:45 AM ]