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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Not hard at all. According to the report, they were tested by two officials at the same time at halftime. One official found that all of the Patriots' balls, except one, were under 12 psi and 7 of them were almost a full psi below regulation. The other official found every single ball under 12 psi, 5 of which were more than 1.5 psi below regulation, and the rest at or around a full psi below regulation.

You also left out the part that says "...the reduction in pressure of the Patriots game balls cannot be explained completely by basic scientific principles..." And the part that says the difference in pressure drop for Patriots balls exceed the average pressure drop of the Colts balls by ~.5 to 1 psi, which the scientific experts deemed statistically significant. I won't even go into the list of factors their experts ruled out as a cause of the differences.

Pesky facts getting in the way.

TM

And this, as well as the report, conveniently ignores the fact that Walt Anderson recalls he used a pressure gauge that provides higher readings than the one used to get the lower set of measurements. And that if one uses only the higher set of measurements from halftime (i.e., those using the same gauge that Anderson recalls using to test the balls pregame) then the pressures measured all fall within the range that would be expected based on the ideal gas law.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...e-of-evidence/

The gauge with the logo and the longer needle generated higher measurements of the Patriots footballs at halftime, ranging from 0.3 PSI to 0.45 PSI higher for each of the 11 footballs. If that gauge — the one with the logo and the longer, crooked needle — were used to set the PSI for the balls before the game began, the measurements from that gauge are the right measurements to rely upon at halftime. And those measurements show that there was no tampering, because most of the footballs fell within the 11.52 to 11.32 PSI range for halftime, as predicted by the Ideal Gas Law. . . . .Anderson recalls using the gauge before the game that, based on the halftime measurements, leads to a finding of no tampering. . . . In other words, the Wells report concludes on this critical point that it’s “more probable than not” that Anderson’s “best recollection” was wrong.

Pesky facts indeed.