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@Fencer Can you review the ten questions I have selected, and check them for factual accuracy and relevance.
Chiuba's Ten Most Important Questions to Task About Deflategate (I relied heavily on your comments and and made liberal use of paraphrasing - this is only a first draft of a document I intend to compose later on)
1. Why did official NFL statements knowingly affirm false information in a 1/19 letter issued by NFL Senior VP David Gardi to the Patriots? What was the chain of events leading to the distorted information presented to the Patriots? And when the actual psi of the Patriots footballs was known at halftime, why did the NFL choose to hide that information through the Super Bowl and only disclose after the Wells was published in May?
2. Why did the NFL head of officiating, Dean Blandino, lie about being told before the game about allegations of football tampering and the halftime game inspection which followed? Do the actions which took place prior to the AFC game point to an attempt to disrupt Brady's performance on the field, or at worse, an organized effort to accuse the Patriots of wrongdoing?
3. Once the game starts, neither team is allowed to gauge the footballs or pump them That is solely the province of the referee, who is to be the “sole judge” of whether footballs comply with League standard. Why then the Colts, with advance concerns about psi, not report the issue to the referee. Why did they take matters into their own hands and instruct an intern to gauge the football.
4. Why did the league insist on leaving the public with a seriously wrong impression about the measurement of footballs used in the AFC Championship Game? Once false information was being leaked to the media by League sources, why did the NFL choose not to immediately correct this information?
5. Walt Anderson, a respected referee of 25 year of experience, states that it was his "best recollection" that he used one partcilar gauge to determine that the Patriots footballs at halftime, were not unusually deflated. In the Ted Wells investigation, the NFL accepted all of his "best recollections" concerning multiple aspects of that game. Why then did they reject the only part of his testimony that might have cleared the Patriots of wrongdoing?
6. Once the NFL learned about the natural effects of the Ideal Gas Law and the correct measures of balls measured by the gauge Anderson said he used , why did they still decide to open a multi-million dollar investigation?
7. To date, no other elite quarterbacks has been privately polled to discuss this whole subject of preparing footballs. So why did the NFL refuse to inquire about football preparation protocols for every other NFL team, much in the same way that the New York Times did with the Giants in 2013?
8. Why did the NFL accept the findings of the research firm, Exponent, knowing the type of work that it has done in the past, to suggest that (a) secondhand smoke does not cause cancer (b) that asbestos does not harm the health of workers and (b) there is not environmental harm in dumping toxic waste in the Amazon rain forest.
9. It was reported by the NY Times on January 26 that the Wells investigation contacted Columbia University to do the scientific analysis. What did Columbia say? Who else was contacted and what were their responses? And why was this information not included in the Wells report?
10. Why did the Wells Report conveniently ignore the statements, testimony and evidence presented to them, as outlined in the "Wells Report in Context" which, when combined with all the above information, prove that not only was that there was no deliberate deflation of footballs, but that there may have been a conspiracy at the highest levels of the NFL Headquarters to fabricate evidence against the Patriots?
