Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My point was that most of the Patriots balls were not significantly below 12.5 psi.
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnRHAyXqYY
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
According to Wikipedia, which has cites I didn't check, "At halftime, league officials inspected the footballs. It was initially reported that eleven of the twelve balls used by the Patriots were measured to be two pounds per square inch below the minimum, but later reports refuted this allegation, citing only a single ball two pounds per square inch below the minimum."
|
If true, what does that mean? All you're saying is the other balls were deflated less than that one. We have no idea by how much or the significance. We
do know that the league places significance on the 12.5 psi threshold
because they passed a rule about it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If the latter is true, then I question whether the Pats got any competitive advantage.
|
I'm sure you do.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Note also that the Colts had one of those balls (and for significantly more than 100 seconds). From what I know, it's possible that the Patriots staffer took the balls into the bathroom and deflated them, one more than the rest. It's also possible that they deflated (or inflated?) the balls to the bare minimum before the game, consistent with Brady's preferences and the rules, and that the Colts deflated one of them after intercepting it, and that the other balls tested a little below the minimum at half time because a different gauge was used. Like I said before, I have hardly read everything on this, so you tell me -- what evidence is there that the former happened instead of the latter? I find it very easy to believe that someone was cheating, but I also see a lot of people arguing that the Patriots are cheaters and therefore they were cheating.
|
I love it. They probably hacked into phones and sent phony text messages, made up nicknames, switched out the gauges, and paid off Goodell. It's all possible. Where's the evidence that it's not?
TM
