It all started with a tweet from Chris Mortensen,
"11 of the 12 Patriots footballs were inflated 2 pounds per square inch below what’s required by NFL regulation." That's when the Defamegate PR campaign caught fire and rapidly spread throughout the national football world. Since then Patriot Fans have been thrust into the middle of an episode of the Twilight Zone. We were forced to watch scientifically ignorant ex football players dancing around with deflated footballs while singing the "Tom should have known" song. We've tolerated the new wave of "cheetriot" rants. And although the best conclusion Wells could come up with was "more probable than not" after millions of dollars and months of investigating, some of our own mediots have spun that into "they know Brady did something".
Soon after came the "competitive advantage" diatribe which was supported by the erroneous Sharp Analysis and it's fraudulent conclusion of fumble rates. Sure you,the Physicist, the Doctor, the Engineer, the Technician or the guy who just got "it" , probably wrote emails, tweeted and may have called in to preach the logic or the truth but it all fell on deaf ears. Even buckets of the purest water cannot extinguish an inferno. We would like to think the NFL is a cesspool of idiot clueless yahoo's who are running around blindlessly colliding into gate after gate, which may be true scientifically but unfortunately they are quite brilliant when it comes to PR campaigns. They have effectively created the latest controversy over 2/10's psi. Think about that for a moment. 2/10's psi. Of course you will not be able to find one single sentence in any report delivered from the NFL or it's cronie news networks expressing how much air they imply was missing or released. Nope it's not out there as a "matter fact statement". Why? Because if they did the entire scandal would slowly but surely start to crumble. Competitive Advantage from 0.3 psi? Nope. Brady directed a scheme to release 0.3 psi from footballs? Nope . McNally tells the referees 12.5 and then later sneaks into the bathroom to bring them down to 12.2 psi? Nope. None of that would add up. It would not support any of the "Integrity of the game" reasoning built using CM's 2 psi tweet.
Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce to you the first instance in which how much air was missing is written for public consumption in a legal transcript. Kessler ,the Jedi F'ing Lawyer, somehow found a way to introduce it into the court transcripts, not as new evidence but as part of a fairness argument. Which, by the way, was not disputed by Nash at all. 2/10's psi is now on record and is available for all to discuss.
"Then it occurred to me as I'm preparing this argument, how much of a difference is that? And what it turns out, it's one or two-tenths of a difference of PSI. What does that mean? It means how much do you think we have to alter the assumption to overcome one or two-tenths of PSI. It means their conclusion is Mr. McNally, the attendant, went into the bathroom to lower the PSI one or two-tenths of a PSI. I would say, your Honor, even the NFL would not contend that a quarterback could even feel the difference of one or two-tenths of PSI, let alone in making a difference in play." Kessler Page 19, Aug 19th Transcripts.
Roger made one colossal mistake in all of this. He underestimated Tom F. Brady. While Roger filled his PR Balloon with hot air, Tom stood firmly on the grounds of integrity. Roger is twice on the record as a liar, Tom is not. It is about
honor with Tom and soon the same inferred 2/10's psi that threatened Brady's legacy may be the same 2/10's psi that brings down Roger's kingdom.
