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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.The thing was, Exponent’s experiments and analysis proved that no deflation happened. Exponent’s conclusion was that the balls were at most 0.3PSI too low.Don’t forget the deflation wasn't natural. Proven by the very same organization that proved second hand smoke and asbestos doesn’t cause cancer.
EDIT: Yeah - was should have been waasn't
It was a curious article, Im not sure what the motivation for it was, you make a good point though.It's pretty remarkable that an article like this was published by ESPN. In September of 2015, Mike Reiss wrote a reaction article to the Anonymous Source Brothers hit piece on the Patriots. In it, Reiss raised a point questioning one of the assertions of cheating in New England. ESPN removed that material from his article, claiming it needed a "tighter edit." We've gone from not being allowed to question any negative claims about the Patriots, no matter how absurd, to casting doubt on if a high profile "scandal" even happened.
In terms of motivation, I can't imagine ESPN management had a change of heart on the topic. If I had to guess, they see that Brady's career will end in the next few years and they want to show him the company isn't an enemy in case he's interested in TV work. Along those lines, maybe they've seen the reactions to Belichick on the NFL100 shows and want to present a friendlier, or more balanced face, in order to court him, as well.
I still think the Patriots should have done a public demonstration at halftime of a game on a cold day- take measurements at the start, half and end of game of footballs and show the results on the scoreboard for all to see.
Maybe Kraft didn’t want to embarrass his good buddy Roger.
Sentences like this make me confused. It’s like it’s this great mystery if the balls are under inflated. Why doesn’t a reporter just measure the PSI of a football he brings with him to a cold weather game?
It’s obviously years late, but at the time everyone was yelling at each other about whether the IGL could explain the Patriots PSI levels and nobody did an actual ****ing experiment except for the NFL (who never released the results the next year) and a handful of eighth graders who won their science fairs when they showed that the PSI levels were right where they should have been.
The damage is done. Think of how many political comments get wrongly reported and "corrected". They're never gone, and they continue to get used by those in opposition.
This is no different. Between those who are ignorant of the facts, and those who allow agenda to overcome truth, this will continue to be out there. Hell, we've still got people repeating the claim that the Patriots taped a Rams walk through ahead of the 2001 Super Bowl.
I wonder if he really is. It seems to me producers of these types of debate shows always have one guy play to the crowd and **** on the PatriotsYeah nobody is talking about those fumble stats from Sharp anymore since it was debunked the following year. Sharp is also a die hard Patriot hater so consider the source too on that one.
The Minnesota -Seattle playoff game in zero degree weather was the perfect game to check the results but the NFL didn't reveal the results..Wonder why??? Sometimes it takes time for the hype and hysteria to die down and things to get looked at in perspective.. This is one of those and three Super Bowls and 2 Lombardis later, anyone with a few functioning neurons knows that deflating balls .3 lbs wasn't the reason for their success.People at Carnegie-Mellon and MIT did do experiments. Showed exactly what you'd expect. But...nobody listened. I mean....these are two of the finest science institutions in the world.
And yes your point is well taken. A reporter should buy a standard NFL ball, pump it to 12.5, bring it to a cold game - say, a 20-degree game in Lambeau in December - and let it sit on the ground for the first two quarters. Then measure the psi. It is a 100% guarantee that, unless it's sitting by a heater or whatever, it will lose air pressure. Laws of physics and all.
Why no reporter did this is just beyond my capacity to understand. Or...they DID, and didn't want to share the results.
I wonder if he really is. It seems to me producers of these types of debate shows always have one guy play to the crowd and **** on the Patriots
It’s not that cold COULD have caused deflation it’s that cold HAS TO cause inflation. Like every time. Like it’s a RULE OF NATURE that pressures decreases when temperature decreases. It’s not a theory that must be tested, it’s a cold hard fact.Sentences like this make me confused. It’s like it’s this great mystery if the balls are under inflated. Why doesn’t a reporter just measure the PSI of a football he brings with him to a cold weather game?
It’s obviously years late, but at the time everyone was yelling at each other about whether the IGL could explain the Patriots PSI levels and nobody did an actual ****ing experiment except for the NFL (who never released the results the next year) and a handful of eighth graders who won their science fairs when they showed that the PSI levels were right where they should have been.
It’s not that cold COULD have caused deflation it’s that cold HAS TO cause inflation. Like every time. Like it’s a RULE OF NATURE that pressures decreases when temperature decreases. It’s not a theory that must be tested, it’s a cold hard fact.
People at Carnegie-Mellon and MIT did do experiments. Showed exactly what you'd expect. But...nobody listened. I mean....these are two of the finest science institutions in the world.
And yes your point is well taken. A reporter should buy a standard NFL ball, pump it to 12.5, bring it to a cold game - say, a 20-degree game in Lambeau in December - and let it sit on the ground for the first two quarters. Then measure the psi. It is a 100% guarantee that, unless it's sitting by a heater or whatever, it will lose air pressure. Laws of physics and all.
Why no reporter did this is just beyond my capacity to understand. Or...they DID, and didn't want to share the results.