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I actually think that's what happened. I think the Ravens conducted a little test on the ball they intercepted and the ball was around 2 to 2.5 PSI under (because that was a much colder night than the Indy game). Not knowing physics, they jumped to all sorts of conclusions and passed the word to the Colts who passed it to the league office.Nobody believed that cold weather deflated footballs naturally.
Maybe teams came into a cold Foxboro, got their asses beat and started pointing fingers at the softer footballs.
In fact, my pet theory is that may have been where Gardi's blatantly false 10.1 PSI number came from. But 10.1 PSI is in the range of what the Ideal Gas Law for the ball from the Ravens game.
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