Mack Herron
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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.What conditions the balls were filled under would not be a violation.
By the way I don't think it has anything to do with filling them but where they stored them.
Um, yes it would. If you filled it with hotter air, then the temperature differential between that air and the outside air is higher, and therefore the pressure drop is higher.
Why don't they fill the footballs with nitrogen, I believe nitrogen isn't affected by temp
The media and NFL is the cause of this storm.
You really listen to Goody the Jet?!? Stop that this instant.
If the Pats are fined or not, this will still be a great SB if they win.
I enjoy watching curling but I've never played a game.
in front of 80k fans and dozens of hd cameras***holes! I also want someone to demonstrate...how can you deflate a ball with a pin or a paperclip for exactly 2 psi on 11 balls. Show it to me..
My favorite was when one sports mediot (Mike Tanier I think?) said he heard the air in the Pats balls were 80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and questioned why (gee...you know, whats that mixture we call...oh, right AIR.). Thought it was suspicious.
Umm, Mr. Florio. . . . The NFL has already collected videos. Obviously they don't already have that video, which also suggests said video does not exist.
The ultra-competitive nature of the sport coupled with the uncanny ability of Belichick and those he employs to seize upon every opportunity to gain an edgesuggests that they discovered a way to produce footballs that passed the pregame inspection at the low end of the permitted PSI and that then dropped well below the minimum, furthering the stated preferences of the guy charged with the task of throwing the footballs.
oh sorry, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise but reading my reponse (to your query) written in jest, I realize I should have worded it better.
I know that the NFL could have at least dampened this storm (as none can control the media).
Mine was a tongue-in-cheek response to your query on why should the Pats be punished.
It is akin to the case of a kid who excels in both academics and sports, and is constantly pulled up by the teachers for explanation because the other jealous kids incessantly complain something or the other.
So though we did not cause this storm, we are in it because of a complaint filed against us + media out for blood because of the camera-gate cross we have to bear for a looong time.
Hence my thought that it was easy for the NFL to punish us IF the balls were indeed found to be under-inflated.
Given the negativity so far, I would have been glad to pay that fine as long as a group of us (Packers, Vikings, Panthers etc) were hit with the same nominal fine because they either admitted or where caught trying to alter the ball's conditions. Unfortunate that we get clubbed with those guys, but then we were stuck with under-inflated balls and so have to bear responsibility.
Or so I thought until I heard BB's PC this morning.
He was brilliant and gave enough information to suggest that it was natural causes and nothing else Period.
I don't need anything else and really don't care anymore for what the friggin NFL does.
as you suggested, I am going to enjoy the next seven days, watch a wonderful SB, and hopefully get drunk with joy watching BB and TB host the cup.
Maybe keep curling away for some more time.
GO PATS!!