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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.You have a dangerous notion about footballs. You have assumed it is a lossless system. In that case, If I pump up a football, it should have the same pressure 10 years from now?I was thinking about it, and I know we hate to hear this, but the correct way to do this from a scientific standpoint is to let the footballs warm up at halftime and then measure the PSI level. That way if it's under the 12.5 limit, you know the footballs were tampered with. You negate any effect brought on by a temperature change. That's what they SHOULD have done last January.
The Patriots should still be conducting their own measurements and broadcasting them far and wide.
You have a dangerous notion about footballs. You have assumed it is a lossless system. In that case, If I pump up a football, it should have the same pressure 10 years from now?
Jenkins suggested “maybe in a year or two” the PSI would fluctuate after being introduced to different environments, which seems to fly in the face of the dozens upon dozens of amateur science experiments that took place throughout New England last week. He did, however, relent that the ball’s pressure may change if you put it in a freezer, then unfreeze it.
"Well it couldn't unless something happened to a bladder, but that really doesn't happen and there's no other real way,” Wilson’s director of experiential marketing Molly Wallace said.
You have a dangerous notion about footballs. You have assumed it is a lossless system. In that case, If I pump up a football, it should have the same pressure 10 years from now?
If our local media had any balls, they'd have been running these tests every week since the season started.
You have a dangerous notion about footballs. You have assumed it is a lossless system. In that case, If I pump up a football, it should have the same pressure 10 years from now?
Right, but the point of this (stupid) exercise, as stated by the NFL, isn't to determine the effect of weather on PSI levels. It is to make sure that no teams are tampering with footballs. The NFL absolutely doesn't want to find out what the effect of weather is on footballs, because they'd have to give us our draft picks back. There's no way they'll measure them outside in cold weather. That's why the Patriots should be doing this.
That is literally what a couple of employees of Wilson Footballs believe:
Just inflate a ball once and it will never lose air and the PSI will never change
I don't think we'll hear anything about it, if they even find anything, until they need to. Like the re-appeal. Ala "broken cell phone gate".I hope the Pats film their crew inflating the footballs to spec and have video proof of them handing them off to the refs without any other chance for alteration.
However, even if the numbers come out and aren't favorable (they may not be, since it's not a wet game), who gives a s***? The NYJFL already punished the Pats for it. What're they gonna do? Dock an extra pick after the fact just 'cause?
However, IMO I don't think we will ever hear the results.
You think kraft would allow the team to embarrass his hero goodell any further?a bit disappointed that the Pats didn't get out in front of this tactic from Week #1.
Instead of randomly testing footballs they announce what teams footballs they are going to analyze, do they really expect any chicanery???.. the absurdity of the NFL continues..
Instead of doing a year long study of climate and game conditions of the PSI of NFL Footballs they chose to announce what balls they are going to check and when they are going to do it, and then not record the results..... they do not want to know the results.
The first thing I checked this morning were any tweets from Mort..
I heard they weighed the same as a duck. We may be in trouble.
Not sure about the movie redirect but the appeal brief and the leak to the press that they spot checked the Pats footballs on Sunday was absolutely a coordinated PR effort.The more I think about it the more I get pissed, I really do think their hoping to take some of the attention away from the Concussion movie. They wait to file their papers until week of movie and they just happen to make this the week to check Patriots balls. Just to make sure everyone hasn't forgot about this major cheating scandal and hopefully talk more about that than the movie. I so hope this back fires on them.