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After reading the (oh) Wells report and have seen how ridiculous the circumstantial evidence is I wonder if it is possible to sue the NFL as fans. I do not think this report has chance in hell to hold up in a court of law.
1. The pregame psi of the footballs based on Walt Anderson's recollection.
2. The gauges use to measure the footballs were out of calibration. One + .4 and the other -.07 psi out of range.
- This means if the footballs had shown up in Walt's locker room at 12.1 psi and he read it with the +0.4 gauge he would have read that those footballs were at 12.5 psi.
- IF he used the other gauge at half time he would have read an additional -0.07 psi incorrectly for a total possible discrepancy of 0.47 psi.
3. They do not account for the temperature of the rain during game time. Instead they kept the spray bottle in the environment chamber which means they were spraying 48 deg water on the balls. The temperature of the rain during that game could have been much colder which could add another 0.1 -0.3 psi loss if not more. Water is much more thermally conductive than air.
4. They do not mention or account for possible evaporation effects of the wet footballs when going from a wet environment to a warmer dry environment. Which could account for additional psi loss. Not sure how much or if any but it is not accounted for.
5. Although Walt knew there was suspicion of deflation issues with the Pats footballs they never record the pregame psi readings AND during half time they re-inflate the footballs essentially destroying the evidence used to incriminate Tom Brady and the Ball attendants.
- IF they had just bagged them up and left them in the referees locker room and tested them after the game the balls would have returned to their original psi levels which would have told you a lot more than all this circumstantial theory.
6. The NFL did not care about psi in the past.
The NFL's Standard of Procedure for regulating air pressure is fraudulent to begin with. Testing footballs in a 70 deg F locker room and then put them in a game that is 20 degrees hotter or colder than the locker room will result in games being played with footballs over and under inflated during the game.
- The famous ice bowl game was played with footballs potentially 4.0 + less air pressure during the game. If those footballs were tested at 13 psi in a 70 degree locker room they would have measured 9.0 psi during the game.
- Any game played in temperatures of 30 deg F or less were played with footballs that would have measured 11.0 psi. +/- . 5 psi.
- Any game played in temperatures of 100 degrees F were played with footballs that would have measured 14.5 psi.
7. Most of the text messages used to incriminate Tom Brady and the ball attendants refer to pregame preparation and in those text messages they state that the footballs ' should have been at 13 psi'. They found the footballs from the Jets game to be at 16 psi a day after which infers that they did not tamper with the footballs during that game and it also infers that the target psi was 13.
8. The report does not indicate how far out of the window the Pats footballs were. They do not indicate how much air they suspect McNally released from the footballs but looking at all the data it looks as if they are indicating that McNally potentially released an average of 0.2 or 0.3 psi in the bathroom. If they had put that figure into the report it would have changed the whole perspective of the report in it's entirety which is why it is not in there.
9. They disregard Bill Belichick's theory of ball preparation increasing the temperature of the footballs giving an artificially high reading. But if they did prep the footballs and soon after McNally set the pressure of the footballs to 12.5 psi while they were warm they would have lost pressure while waiting to be inspected in the referees locker room. And again if that pressure would have dropped to 12.1 and Walt used the gauge that read .4 psi he would have measured 12.5.
Can we as fans sue the NFL? I think we have a good case.
1. The pregame psi of the footballs based on Walt Anderson's recollection.
2. The gauges use to measure the footballs were out of calibration. One + .4 and the other -.07 psi out of range.
- This means if the footballs had shown up in Walt's locker room at 12.1 psi and he read it with the +0.4 gauge he would have read that those footballs were at 12.5 psi.
- IF he used the other gauge at half time he would have read an additional -0.07 psi incorrectly for a total possible discrepancy of 0.47 psi.
3. They do not account for the temperature of the rain during game time. Instead they kept the spray bottle in the environment chamber which means they were spraying 48 deg water on the balls. The temperature of the rain during that game could have been much colder which could add another 0.1 -0.3 psi loss if not more. Water is much more thermally conductive than air.
4. They do not mention or account for possible evaporation effects of the wet footballs when going from a wet environment to a warmer dry environment. Which could account for additional psi loss. Not sure how much or if any but it is not accounted for.
5. Although Walt knew there was suspicion of deflation issues with the Pats footballs they never record the pregame psi readings AND during half time they re-inflate the footballs essentially destroying the evidence used to incriminate Tom Brady and the Ball attendants.
- IF they had just bagged them up and left them in the referees locker room and tested them after the game the balls would have returned to their original psi levels which would have told you a lot more than all this circumstantial theory.
6. The NFL did not care about psi in the past.
The NFL's Standard of Procedure for regulating air pressure is fraudulent to begin with. Testing footballs in a 70 deg F locker room and then put them in a game that is 20 degrees hotter or colder than the locker room will result in games being played with footballs over and under inflated during the game.
- The famous ice bowl game was played with footballs potentially 4.0 + less air pressure during the game. If those footballs were tested at 13 psi in a 70 degree locker room they would have measured 9.0 psi during the game.
- Any game played in temperatures of 30 deg F or less were played with footballs that would have measured 11.0 psi. +/- . 5 psi.
- Any game played in temperatures of 100 degrees F were played with footballs that would have measured 14.5 psi.
7. Most of the text messages used to incriminate Tom Brady and the ball attendants refer to pregame preparation and in those text messages they state that the footballs ' should have been at 13 psi'. They found the footballs from the Jets game to be at 16 psi a day after which infers that they did not tamper with the footballs during that game and it also infers that the target psi was 13.
8. The report does not indicate how far out of the window the Pats footballs were. They do not indicate how much air they suspect McNally released from the footballs but looking at all the data it looks as if they are indicating that McNally potentially released an average of 0.2 or 0.3 psi in the bathroom. If they had put that figure into the report it would have changed the whole perspective of the report in it's entirety which is why it is not in there.
9. They disregard Bill Belichick's theory of ball preparation increasing the temperature of the footballs giving an artificially high reading. But if they did prep the footballs and soon after McNally set the pressure of the footballs to 12.5 psi while they were warm they would have lost pressure while waiting to be inspected in the referees locker room. And again if that pressure would have dropped to 12.1 and Walt used the gauge that read .4 psi he would have measured 12.5.
Can we as fans sue the NFL? I think we have a good case.
