Which is part of the problem here, the league's SOP was not set up for a sting operation. No logs, no attention to temperatures, no consistency about use of gauges. This is the 1st time ever they've measured at halftime, and nobody ever considered the affect of physics & science on deflation. Ever tried to dribble a basketball that's been sitting in the cold for awhile? I actually think BB's explanation in his press conference of the way NE preps their balls is the main reason for the diff between NE's and Indy's psi readings. They brush the crap out of the exterior with an electric brush to rub off the finish, which they discovered raises psi by 1 lb temporarily. So the balls measure at 12.5, but an hour later that same ball is 11.5 as the ball returns to equilibrium. Nothing illegal about it at all. He said that this occurred repeatedly with multiple balls when they did their own tests after the fact. Case closed.
Stop saying "weight" please. Nobody weighed anything, this is about pounds of pressure, not pounds of weight. The balls weigh the same regardless of psi.
you don't grasp how this works despite numerous attempts to educate you. Anything between 12.5 and 13.5 is legal. Each team chooses which psi level they want. Got it?
Correct. And maintaining that pressure level is the responsibility of the officials alone. They can remove a ball from play, inflate the footballs, deflate the footballs (just ask A. Rogers) and apparently, they can steal the footballs, and sell them on eBay.
HAHAHAHA youve got to be fucking kidding me. i know you want to believe there was no foul play but come on man. do you just get conned out of all of your belongings every other week or are you just pretending to be that stupid for the sake of your favorite football teams integrity? i mean why not try having some personal integrity for fucks sake. oh and btw, if you inflate a ball to 11.5 psi, then do a bunch of shit to the ball to artificially raise the air pressure during testing, you are cheating. its not like the rules say the balls just have to measure at that range once and then its fine. come on man
damn refs and their plots against the pats. they clearly are in the wrong for not keeping the pats balls inflated during the first half like they did the colts. it was a SET UP!!
NE had no idea that prepping the balls raised the psi until they reviewed/recreated all their procedures, testing for psi every step of the way. That's when the impact on psi surfaced. The QB is far more interested in texture and slippery-ness than psi, the goal of the prepping isn't to affect psi but to get the original finish off the ball. Person after person has attested that you can't tell a 1 psi difference by holding/sqeezing a ball.
I love how pats fans are convinced the colts balls were all 13.5 psi before the game. of course they were. no demands for evidence on that one it's just widely accepted as truth amongst pats fans.
Of course when Eric Mangini exposed NEP for previous cheating he was disowned and chastised by their organization and branded a rat. Bill Belichick wouldn't talk to him or shake his hand after games. Mangini was doing his job as our head coach trying to get any advantage he could as he was taught by his mentor. Eric knew the Patriot way which is cheating is ok but only by us.
Mangina was butthurt that the Pats made his guy stop taping from the sidelines the previous Jets game in NE.
