Physics department chair at BC: weather alone could easily deflate ball from 12.5 to 10.5 psi

People on Yotube making a mockery of the media and deflategate. I love it.

even the geniuses at the NFL should be able to follow that video...

Why start now? Why let facts and science interfere with their opportunistic witch hunt?

Wordsmyth said:

Why start now? Why let facts and science interfere with their opportunistic witch hunt?

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That's the motto ESPN run with, to the tune of deleting the Sports Science video showing that it was a disadvantage to the Patriots from their website earlier!

Big-T said:

That's the motto ESPN run with, to the tune of deleting the Sports Science video showing that it was a disadvantage to the Patriots from their website earlier!

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I think Tom wants to really be known as the GOAT by using deflated balls that will make it harder on him.

Big-T said:

That's the motto ESPN run with, to the tune of deleting the Sports Science video showing that it was a disadvantage to the Patriots from their website earlier!

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Bazinga.

Horace's Ivories said:

even the geniuses at the NFL should be able to follow that video...

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Why, does it somehow implicate the Patriots? Otherwise, I don't think they would ever watch it.

karguy85 said:

Wow, look at how quickly the PSI changes in a new official Wilson football in this video. It literally takes minutes to change:



His joke at the end notwithstanding, further support for this hypothesis.

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This is too complicated for the american media to understand. Can someone make this simpler please!


Of course I am kidding. This is what I have said 1000 times. This is not complicated.

"It's the weather, stupid" - James Carville to Roger Goodell

upstater1 said:

Or their balls were outside for awhile, then inflated. Who says they were inflated inside.

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But if they were inflated outside, taken inside to be measured, pressure would increase as the inside temp increased. Pressure is related to temperature. As several video's have shown, only a short period of time is needed to change pressure.

karguy85 said:

Wow, look at how quickly the PSI changes in a new official Wilson football in this video. It literally takes minutes to change:



His joke at the end notwithstanding, further support for this hypothesis.

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Nice find. I'm making a collection of these in a placeholder Thread.

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...ence-that-helps-exonerate-or-explain.1115460/

SVN said:

"BUT BUT BUT the colts balls were fine...the colts balls were fine...." thats all you hear.

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And as I'm sure you know in raising that issue, if the Colts were planning on "telling" on the Patriots you can be damn sure they made damn sure their balls had full pressure - so no shock there

Heck - it wouldn't surprise me if the Pats filled the balls in a 90 degree room and then stored them in a sub zero freezer once the refs had approved them. The thought that a ballboy took a needle to them all and deflated them all with a gauge perfectly is implausible

Speaking of which DOES the NFL test each ball with a gauge? Or do they just go by feel?

this is not a minor point if the NFL did not have any quality control in the first place

karguy85 said:

Wow, look at how quickly the PSI changes in a new official Wilson football in this video. It literally takes minutes to change:



His joke at the end notwithstanding, further support for this hypothesis.

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This video should be submitted to the NFL as evidence in the deflate-gate investigation. Thanks for posting the video.

Also, once the NFL releases the pressures of the footballs at halftime, and the location of the measurement, you can go back and calculate the original pressure of the ball. The tests people have done, confirm the calculations. Now you can have some fun. Based upon this, the Pats balls were most likely 12-12.5 PSI. If the Indy balls were pressurized inside and measured inside, and were 13 or 13.5 at halftime, they were mostly likely would have had to have been 14-14.5 PSI at the start.

I am telling you Indy has more questions than the Patriots. If only someone at the NFL could realize this.

Big-T said:

That's the motto ESPN run with, to the tune of deleting the Sports Science video showing that it was a disadvantage to the Patriots from their website earlier!

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What a ***ing joke. Crooked ass network. What did we do to them?

So one question that needs answering is where did they do measurements when balls were low. Outside will produce low psi because physics. Or did they take inside wait sufficient time for football temp to warm up to room temp and then remeasure. Would not take too much to wait for warming as the cooling videos showed footballs losing pressure in a matter of minutes

mosi said:

Also, once the NFL releases the pressures of the footballs at halftime, and the location of the measurement, you can go back and calculate the original pressure of the ball. The tests people have done, confirm the calculations. Now you can have some fun. Based upon this, the Pats balls were most likely 12-12.5 PSI. If the Indy balls were pressurized inside and measured inside, and were 13 or 13.5 at halftime, they were mostly likely would have had to have been 14-14.5 PSI at the start.

I am telling you Indy has more questions than the Patriots. If only someone at the NFL could realize this.

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I wish the Pats were aggressive enough to flip the tables. How is it even possible Indy's could be within regs with this science if they weren't overinflated?

Froob said:

What a ***ing joke. Crooked ass network. What did we do to them?

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Boston may be a huge television market, but the rest of the country is many times larger, and they love watching the Patriots under scrutiny. It's become a national pastime.

I said it before, the Colts wouldn't understand this because they are from a science denying state that plays in a climate controlled dome and the science behind it is the Gay-Lussac's Law and they won't look at anything that has gay in it.

Given that they don't understand physics and the rule is the ball must be at least 12.5psi, why would they take it inside to heat it up? They're thinking the pressure is the pressure.

So no I think the refs measured it on the field. Why would they take it inside?