Neither I nor the NFL said the Patriots deflated the balls, just that the pressure was low. Only reporters and commentators have speculated that the Patriots may have deflated the balls. Clearly that's a rumor and no one has even come close to refuting that.
The facts are:
-The Colts leveled a complaint
-The balls WERE low in pressure
-The balls were re-inflated and played with
-The NFL is investigating
Are you denying those are the facts of the situation? It doesn't seem like you're sure what you're trying to say.
EDIT: I was wrong about one thing. I didn't think you had anywhere to go with your line of reasoning, but I didn't consider that instead of admitting you were wrong you could claim the NFL was lying! Masterstroke of denial! Kudos to you!
They said the footballs were underinflated, not that they were low in pressure. They also said that the balls were checked prior to the game and found to be properly inflated.
Couple of issues here. Inflated is a verb, so some action caused an improper inflation level. Pressure is a noun, it's just stating a fact, not implicating any action occurred.
It's like the difference between saying:
The ball was kicked. Or
The ball is red.
If the ball was kicked, then somebody kicked it, even if the subject is not included in the sentence. If the ball is red it's just a statement about the ball that doesn't imply any action.
Furthermore, there's dozens of ways for pressure to change but very few for underinflation. A leak, or a manipulation cause underinflation. But they said in their statement that the balls were fine before the game, and reinflated at halftime remaining at the proper inflation. This only leaves manipulation as a possibility. People interpret the statement that way, because that's the only way to interpret it.
Now maybe you don't find "underinflation" to be a rumor by the NFL. But unless they have some evidence somebody changed the inflation, and I've heard none so far it sounds very much like a rumor. And a rumor that plenty of physicists have clearly proven could not be determined from those pressure levels. In fact it looks quite clearly like they have no idea what "properly inflated" is during a 50 degree game. Unless they believe the rule requires the laws of physics be suspended to maintain an impossible unchanged pressure through all temperatures and conditions. So even the statement that the balls did not have proper pressure is on shaky ground when their rules don't require pressure to be maintained on the field.
Also, even if they did find that the Patriot and Colt balls were at different levels of pressure it remains a possibility that either set could have been manipulated. The NFL has no idea what the pressure should be in those conditions. If they are trying to find the difference why didn't they investigate the Colts. Their statement said they were investigation NE, not Indy. Meaning that one team was being accused, and the other one was not. The implication being they have evidence NE did something wrong. Or as they said "information that suggested that the game balls used by the New England Patriots were not properly inflated to levels required by the playing rules" Unless they come out with it, thus far it looks like a rumor, or a mistake.
Lastly, this is a complete red herring. What does it matter whether the NFL itself started rumors or the media or the fans? It doesn't.
