Quote:Here is a picture of Dan Marino holding a football.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/0226/nfl...11_300.jpg

 

Here is Terry Bradshaw holding a football.

http://a3.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0124/ra...owl_02.jpg

 

Here is Bridgewater holding a football:

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Teddy...UzOcKl.jpg

 

Looks like Marino's hands aren't particularly small. They secure that ball pretty well. Bradshaw, too. Bridgewater's hands do look smaller, but I'm not sure it's enough that it would matter.

 

Because Bridgewater's gloves are the same white as the stripe on the ball, there is an optical illusion that makes it hard to discern just how long his fingers are. His hands don't look very small to me.

 

As an aside, I measured my hand spread just for kicks. My left hand measured at 9 1/4", right hand 9 1/8" (Strange because i am right handed, though my left foot is also larger than my right). I am 6 feet tall and by my standards have small hands. That magic 9" number is not even to get to NFL average hands. It's just to have population average hands, I'd say. So if the NFL says you have small hands, you have REALLY small hands.

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