Tony Cahncuhd
Practice Squad Player
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
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I think these calculations are all correct. However, I haven't seen any information that tells the specifics of the initial and halftime measurements. Do we know for sure that the initial measurements were indoor and the halftime ones were outdoors? Also I can't believe they pumped up the deflated balls and used them in the second half--why destroy the evidence? The nfl will look pretty stupid if this turns out that the initial measurements were indoors while the subsequent ones were outside.
Yup. The location/temperature of the inflation/re-inflation of both sets of balls is key to interpreting out what actually happened, as well as whether the colts knew in advance that balls would be checked.
The psi rule is screwed up because it totally ignores the effect of weather on pressure by not specifying the temperatures at which that 12.5-13.5 psi is supposed to be met.
I think negligence by both the game refs and the patriots is the most likely explanation.
The NFL already looks pretty stupid, but I'm sure they can manage to look even more dumb. Not sure about the mediots, though. They're already scraping the bottom of the barrel.