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I think the league wants to fine us for PR reason to salvage this mess, but as they sought out actual scientists who might present them with a perfectly good explanation, they might be left with no choice.
I'll come back to what I've said in other posts -- IMHO the language in the NFL's statement back in January (when they announced Wells) made it pretty clear they view this as a "strict liability" thing -- if the ball is underpressure during the game -- for whatever reason -- it is a violation of Rule 2 Section 1. And someone in this thread made another good point -- the ball guy taking the balls into the bathroom is another place where Goodell could claim that something happened that wasn't supposed to happen (not that the guy tampered with the balls in there, but that he simply shouldn't have brought them in there).
So the door is wide open for Goodell to say "We were unable to find any evidence of tampering with the footballs. However, N footballs were measured at halftime and found to be less than 12.5 PSI. Therefore we will be fining NE $25,000 for a violation of Rule 2, Section 1."