The Surface Pro 3 is the official tablet of the NFL, however, one of their football players is calling the tablet "a knockoff iPad."

Jay Cutler, a high-paid quarterback for the Chicago Bears called Microsoft's Surface Pro 3, "a knockoff iPad."

This is not the first time that the NFL has had a problem with the tablets made by Microsoft. The announcers on the Sunday morning show called them iPads. Microsoft has apparently coached them to call them Surface Pros now.

Surface Pro 3, good for business?

Business people are really starting to recognize the value and power of the new tablets that dub themselves as a laptop replacement. Since they run Windows and can do things an iPad cannot, businessmen really appreciate them and are starting to buy them.

Could this have been Microsoft's plan the whole time? The price of the Surface Pro 3 could be causing regular tablet users to shy away, but a business man (or woman) may actually spring for one of these.

Boasting BMW, Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton and more as some of its customers, the Surface Pro 3 is starting to gain popularity.

"We believe a strength of the Microsoft platform for enterprise is the rich ecosystem of hardware and applications developed by our partners, the community at large, and some of our own teams at Microsoft. In particular with Microsoft Surface Pro 3 we are now offering an enterprise-class device that can deliver great end user productivity. Microsoft is putting its full and sustained support behind the ongoing Surface program as one of a number of great hardware choices for businesses large and small." - Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

The advertisements are clever too: With Microsoft taking several stabs at Apple in its commercials, customers are starting to realize how powerful a Surface Pro 3 really is. Bascially the ads tell customers what a Surface Pro 3 can do and what an iPad can't.