David Carr spoke about deflating footballs in 2006

Would anyone care if former NFL quarterback David Carr instructed equipment managers to let some air out of game balls? Apparently not.

Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk uncovered a nearly 10-year-old article in which NFL Media’s Judy Battista — formerly of the New York Times — described the process that Carr goes through to break in game balls. According to Battista, Carr told Houston Texans ball boys to let some air out.

“Carr, like several other quarterbacks, said Denver was one of the toughest places to play,” she wrote in 2006. “He said he thought the ball expanded slightly at the altitude and felt slick because of the lower humidity. Before Houston’s preseason game at Denver, Carr…