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anThe refs check the balls then, but Mort reported that the refs actually receive the balls on Friday.
Rich Hill @PP_Rich_HillSome questions that need to be answered:
- Did the officials remember to do the PSI checks '2' hours before the game?
- Did the officials record the PSI readings from '2' hours before the game?
- Did the cameras spot any tampering with the footballs post-inspection?
- Did the ball boys, and any other potential tamperers get interviewed and offer any admissions?
- Did Colts footballs get re-tested at the half (or whenever the specific time of re-testing happened to be) along with the Patriots footballs?
- What is the likely impact of the weather upon the footballs, and is this in the theoretical range?
- How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie roll center of a Tootsie roll Tootsie pop (assuming the licker doesn't have an owl's beak)?
A lot of your post seems to hinge on you believing the balls are approved before the season.
They are required to be approved two hours before kick off of the specific game, they require maintenance.
If they are below the limits then yes, they are "routinely" pumped up, to fix the error, or they would be rejected and corrected before they are allowed for use in a game.
This should be all we need to know.an
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So I just watched the Patriots sideline from the start of the game through the pick. Ballboys weren't doing anything strange.
1:19 AM - 21 Jan 2015
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So I just watched the Patriots sideline from the start of the game through the pick. Ballboys weren't doing anything strange.
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?...ence-first-cold-weather-super-bowl-180949521/
1:45 mark
Sports Science exposed a football at 10 degree temperatures for 1 hour. Its air pressure dropped over 20%.
The exact same laws of physics applies when the weather is in the 40's and 50's as well.
As several experts have guestimated, the expected drop in air pressure would have be from 1.4 psi to 1.75 psi.
This is all just so very disappointing
Not happening.
Thank you, DangerZone.
You are my favorite person tonight, along with Graham Gano, Aaron Rodgers, and Eli manning.
I think that a team can probably get as many balls as they want and at any time. I think the NFL only cares about them being "The Duke" official balls and given to them at the appropriate time. I don't think they care when the ball was given. That's just my guess though.I thought the game balls were new and that they are given to each team a week or so before game to work on. It seems they are months in the making. I would assume older balls would lose psi quicker.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/s...s-are-months-in-making.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1& post by @robbomango
This is all just so very disappointing
Then the Pats still went against the rules. The ref marks the balls as he approves them after inspection before the game. Teams aren't allowed to just toss in new balls.I've played the good guy all thread, going to play the bad guy against my own will,
Here's a simple explanation that I haven't seen thought of yet:
The balls used weren't deflated but swapped.
I don't believe this to be the case at all, but due to being fair to both sides...
Thank you, DangerZone.
You are my favorite person tonight, along with Graham Gano, Aaron Rodgers, and Eli manning.
Just to be clear: the NFL rulebook states that: "A forfeit occurs only when a game is not played because of the failure or refusal of one team to participate."
It explicitly states that, barring a team intentionally removing its players from the field, "The Commissioner, League President, and their representatives, including referees, are not authorized unilaterally to declare forfeits."