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My guess is that the NFL had the balls pumped up to 13 inside at room temperature, pregame.
Teams then played with the footballs outside in the cold for a half.
Then they took them back inside. But not for immediate pressure measurement, rather to let them sit inside for hours while they warm all the way back up to room temperature, while the 2nd half was played with the backup footballs.
Thus… voila! No loss of psi!
Then they will say with a straight face “playing with footballs outside in the cold has no effect on PSI”.
The haters will eat it up.
Those with a brain will say “but wait… PSI goes down with temperature, so they should have measured PSI while the footballs were still cold, as they did in the Jan 2015 AFCCG.
Then those with a brain will be completely ignored.
1 year would have been enough if they systematically measured all games, but I agree with you about it not being enough under the current format.My opinion is 1 year isn't going to cut it sample size wise, it would have to be 3 years plus.
I don't think there were enough cold raw rainy days this season and when you take out the warm weather and dome teams your starting to look very small.
If they release any data at all it will be BS.
I am clearly in the minority here, but I cant believe the NFL at this point would release anything about PSI that would make it another story. Goodell has been in hiding all season on every front trying to regain some level of composure, and then in the biggest week of the year hes going to double down against a team possibly going for back to back championships?
If that is the direction this goes, I am literally without words. That would be without a doubt, the dumbest decision his office has made, and that is saying something. Last year was a total cluster and almost cost the man his job. Roger dodger is all about self preservation, no way he risks putting himself in dangers way again, or do anything that could effect the focus of the game.
Many will disagree and given the history, with good reason. I just cant think of a PR company in the world that would recommend this as a strategy. It isnt like last year where they had no idea how to respond, and totally muddled it from the beginning. They have had 12 months to come up with a plan of attack to put an end to this. The league cant allow back to back superbowls to be about a ludicrous side stories. No company, not even one run by Roger Dodger is that dumb.
I hope.
I completely agree. No good can come from putting this story back in the national focus in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, regardless of what the PSI results are. Constantly rehashing controversies, either real or imagined, is bad for business.
But first they will release the investigation by Ted wells citing exponents experiments that prove more likely than not the world is flat. The league will be suspending the Pope because he was more likely than not generally aware that God was flattening it.In other news, the NFL announced today they are considering publishing a comprehensive study that shows no link between CTE and playing football.
I completely agree. No good can come from putting this story back in the national focus in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, regardless of what the PSI results are. Constantly rehashing controversies, either real or imagined, is bad for business.
Prepared by Exponent.In other news, the NFL announced today they are considering publishing a comprehensive study that shows no link between CTE and playing football.
Cooked numbers without a doubtEither they cooked the numbers or they are about to drop the lawsuit, give us our draft pick back and give Brady an apology.
Hmmmm, which is it...
Cooked numbers without a doubt
Well it sure as hell isn't anything close to the other scenario which @blackglass3 suggested, that's for sure, but I think he threw out that unbelievable scenario on purpose to prove that exact point.
My guess is that the NFL had the balls pumped up to 13 inside at room temperature, pregame.
Teams then played with the footballs outside in the cold for a half.
Then they took them back inside. But not for immediate pressure measurement, rather to let them sit inside for hours while they warm all the way back up to room temperature, while the 2nd half was played with the backup footballs.
Thus… voila! No loss of psi!
Then they will say with a straight face “playing with footballs outside in the cold has no effect on PSI”.
The haters will eat it up.
Those with a brain will say “but wait… PSI goes down with temperature, so they should have measured PSI while the footballs were still cold, as they did in the Jan 2015 AFCCG.
Then those with a brain will be completely ignored.