Can you give me an example of the same phenomenon happening again? Surely the same weather conditions have occurred again somewhere on earth involving footballs. Some losing team would complain about the balls after all the trouble the Patriots got into.
NFL, CFL, NCAA.
Its going to be cold in KC today and I would surmise in GB too. Today could be the day the gas law rears kits ugly head unless they are storing the footballs in a freezer or something. Dry ice?
November 30, 2014. Roughly 6 weeks before NE-Ind in the AFCCG.
As the Vikings and Panthers dealt with freezing temperatures, Fox cameras showed sideline attendants using heaters to warm up game balls.
www.espn.com
"The
Minnesota Vikings played their coldest home game in 38 years on Sunday, when they beat the
Carolina Panthers in 12-degree temperatures at TCF Bank Stadium.
As both teams dealt with the freezing temperatures, Fox cameras showed sideline attendants using heaters to warm up game balls, which is against league rules. NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino said Monday morning on NFL Network that officials warned both the Vikings and Panthers not to heat up the balls during Sunday's game, and would remind teams this week not to heat game balls.
"You can't do anything with the footballs in terms of any artificial, whether you're heating them up, whether it's a regular game ball or kicking ball, you can't do anything to the football," Blandino said. "So that was noticed during the game, both teams were made aware of it during the game and we will certainly remind the clubs as we get into more cold weather games that you can't do anything with the football in terms of heating them up with those sideline heaters.""
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Why did Carolina's ball boys heat the footballs up? Because the air temperature screwed with the footballs and their QB didn't like them like that. So they illegally tampered with them to combat the cold weather. The NFL watched this happen in real time ON NETWORK TELEVISION.
And because they violated these sacred rules, threatening the "integrity of the game", the NFL was SOOOOOO angry that they....
Sent a memo gently reminding teams they can't do that.
Question: Do you actually think that cold weather does NOT lower air pressure in footballs? Or in car tires? Or when you store a basketball in a cold garage in winter?