N.F.L. Ignores Deflategate Science at Patriots’ Expense

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Wow... the ballboy did it...lol..... Not a smart move if they put it on his shoulders as he's not exactly hauling down Brady or HC money to do such a dirty deed.

Yes he could deflate them in 90 seconds but was this a private bathroom as he'd have to not be caught or seen.

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if any employee takes one for the team, I am sure said person would be well compensated under the table.
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Toppy Vann wrote:Wow... the ballboy did it...lol..... Not a smart move if they put it on his shoulders as he's not exactly hauling down Brady or HC money to do such a dirty deed.

Yes he could deflate them in 90 seconds but was this a private bathroom as he'd have to not be caught or seen.

It's like Downtown Abbey. It goes on and on.
Organizations and football teams take on the values of the leaders. Hmmmmm ...

Anything to win?

"Hey, I can win one for the team." Delusions of grandeur. Lowly ballboy gets ground into the dust. :dizzy:
KnowItAll wrote:if any employee takes one for the team, I am sure said person would be well compensated under the table.
Or as KIA suggests, but in a different respect, lowly ballboy, fired, goes on TV, writes a book, makes big money. Must be a reality show in there somewhere. LOL

Toppy provides the title: "The Ballboy Did It."

Super Bowl as Soap Opera.

DeflateGate is an idle amusement. Yup.
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Usually when things are done that are not kosher with the rules (if this doesn't offend any Jewish people) it's the culture of the organization but there are times when it's a one off just dumb move.

HOWEVER, knowing that Tom Brady likes a less than full ball to toss it is hard to imagine the ball boy pulling this off just out of a whim that day. But it is possible.

Also knowing his HC has done tricky things in defiance of league policy before it could make a ballboy think that he'd be a hero.

It's a tough one for the team. If they came out and said - we spoke to the ball boy and he took it on his own to deflate them after - then it'd be curtains for the ball boy's career and they'd be hanging him out to dry.

It's amazing they have the videos to see a 90 sec. gap but then again in a real conspiracy there could have been a video tape doctoring that made 3 or 4 minutes seem like a 90 second pee break.

I'd like to know what the average time for a pee is and make the ball boy undergo tests...lol... but then again he could drink a lot of water or claim he's choking as being timed. So many variables....

BUT at the end of the day the part of the game I saw had the Patriots playing like it was men against boys so no amount of inflated footballs was going to change that game's outcome.
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http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-foo ... -footballs
League has no record of PSI in Patriots' footballs

By Larry Hartstein | CBSSports.com

January 29, 2015 6:17 pm ET

When referee Walt Anderson checked the game balls for the AFC Championship Game, he did not log the PSI. He just approved them.

NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino was asked Thursday if the league has any proof beyond Anderson's word that the footballs were inflated to the required 12.5-13.5 pounds per square inch.

"We did review what happened pregame, and from everything that we reviewed and all the information we had, the balls were properly tested prior to the game,” Blandino responded, acknowledging there's no record of the exact PSI.

"And then there was an issue that was brought up during the first half,” Blandino said. “A football came into question, then the decision was made to test them at halftime. There's an investigation going on, I can't get into too many specifics but really that's the chain of events that occurred.”

The halftime check showed the Patriots' footballs were underinflated. The NFL is trying to determine whether it resulted from "deliberate action." The league has video of a Pats employee taking the Patriots' and Colts' game balls to the bathroom for 90 seconds, on his way to the field, per Pro Football Talk.

But now the league has admitted it won't be able to prove how much the footballs were deflated.

In this ongoing investigation, "a detailed log of the inflation levels of each football is a piece of evidence the NFL should have," PFT said.
No record of the tests? Ttt Tttt :wink:

Hey, I have an NFL football, "THE DUKE." Predates the ones with the Rozelle signature. Old and dusty. But beautiful. It says "INFLATE" "13 POUNDS" "Premium Grain Leather" ... No team names. Just Wilson. No garbage logos. I've had it since the early 1980s, and it must be from the 1960s.
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They look so innocent, just sitting there. Ha ha
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/sport ... .html?_r=0

The New York Times, no less.

This just keeps getting better and better. LOL
The Patriots have absorbed a beating in that larger contest, with many scientists concluding that only the surreptitious hiss of air being released from the balls could explain the difference. But now the Patriots have started to rally, and in a big way. Healy, who provided The New York Times with an advance copy of his technical paper on the experiments, concluded that most or all of the deflation could be explained by those environmental effects.
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IDEAL GAS LAW Max Tegmark, an M.I.T. professor of physics, wrote out the equation, above, which was used in initial calculations in the New England case. Credit Julia Robinson for The New York Times
“This analysis looks solid to me,” said Max Tegmark, a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who reviewed the paper at The Times’s request. “To me, their measurements mean that there’s no evidence of foul play.”

Other evidence is also turning the Patriots’ way. In a usually obscure profession that has received extraordinary attention during the controversy, some academic and research physicists now concede that they made a crucial error in their initial calculations, using an equation called the ideal gas law.

When that error is corrected, the amount of deflation predicted in moving from room temperature to a 50-degree field is roughly doubled. Healy, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, went further: He measured the pressure drop in 12 footballs when they were moved from a room at 75 degrees to one at 50 degrees (the approximate temperature on the field in the Colts game).

In the experiment, the deflation of the footballs was close to the larger, correctly calculated value. When Healy moistened the balls to mimic the effects of the rainy weather that day, the pressure dropped even further, close to the deflation of 2 pounds per square inch that the N.F.L. is believed to have found.
Here is the best part ...
Timothy Gay, an experimental physicist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who once wrote a book called “The Physics of Football,” with a foreword by Bill Belichick, the Patriots’ coach, said there was no doubt that a slightly deflated ball would be easier to grip. But he said his own calculations and Healy’s paper, a few details of which had previously leaked out, persuaded him that the weather could account for the pressure drop.
Hey, you could not make this stuff up. LOL

"The Physics of Football" ... Foreward by Bill Belichick.

I once did a paper on the geometry of various "sports," shooting pool, pass routes, et cetera, for a mathematics class. Of course some sneered, but it got a good grade. :wink:

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Instead of the normal 12 footballs, each team in the Super Bowl will have 54 footballs. The league will take control of all 108 balls on Friday and will have extra security in place on game day, presumably to ensure that nothng unexpected happens to them, according to Dean Blandino, the league's vice president of officiating.
"There will be some added security just because of the environment that we're in for this game," said Blandino, though he offered no specifics.

"Just some additional security measures from Friday when we take custody to when they deliver them on Sunday," he offered. "Not quite Stanley Cup (protection for the NHL's famous trophy), but there will be additional measures."
NFL lays out how Super Bowl footballs will be inspected, guarded

The NFL would still be better off to adopt the CFL practice of having league personnel keep control of each team's balls on the sidelines once they're approved and provide them directly to the officials before the snap on each play. That removes any suspicion of tampering.
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WestCoastJoe wrote:
Timothy Gay, an experimental physicist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who once wrote a book called “The Physics of Football,” with a foreword by Bill Belichick, the Patriots’ coach, said there was no doubt that a slightly deflated ball would be easier to grip. But he said his own calculations and Healy’s paper, a few details of which had previously leaked out, persuaded him that the weather could account for the pressure drop.
Hey, you could not make this stuff up. LOL

"The Physics of Football" ... Foreward by Bill Belichick.

I once did a paper on the geometry of various "sports," shooting pool, pass routes, et cetera, for a mathematics class. Of course some sneered, but it got a good grade. :wink:

Yeah, I've seen that book in the VPL catalogue. Been meaning to check it out for ages now. IIRC he has a website (haven't check in a while) with some videos demonstrating some of the book's concepts.
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sj-roc wrote:
WestCoastJoe wrote:
Timothy Gay, an experimental physicist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who once wrote a book called “The Physics of Football,” with a foreword by Bill Belichick, the Patriots’ coach, said there was no doubt that a slightly deflated ball would be easier to grip. But he said his own calculations and Healy’s paper, a few details of which had previously leaked out, persuaded him that the weather could account for the pressure drop.
Hey, you could not make this stuff up. LOL

"The Physics of Football" ... Foreward by Bill Belichick.

I once did a paper on the geometry of various "sports," shooting pool, pass routes, et cetera, for a mathematics class. Of course some sneered, but it got a good grade. :wink:

Yeah, I've seen that book in the VPL catalogue. Been meaning to check it out for ages now. IIRC he has a website (haven't check in a while) with some videos demonstrating some of the book's concepts.
There is one thing with the "weather deflated the balls" vs the theory "the ball boy did it." How would it explain that the balls used by the Patriots deflated and the Colts who couldn't have won on the day if they played another 4 quarters stayed fully inflated???

How's the physics deal with one...haha.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/sport ... .html?_r=0
Patriots Probably Deflated Footballs on Purpose, Report Says
By KEN BELSONMAY May 6, 2015

The report said Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was probably aware of the deflated footballs. Credit Jim Rogash/Getty Images

The results of an investigation released Wednesday stated that “it is more probable than not” that New England Patriots personnel intentionally deflated footballs to gain an advantage in the A.F.C. championship game last season, and that Tom Brady, the Super Bowl’s most valuable player, was probably aware of it.

No penalties have been announced by the N.F.L.

The investigation into so-called deflategate, which was conducted by Theodore V. Wells Jr. and the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, concluded that it was probable that Patriots personnel were “involved in a deliberate effort to circumvent the rules.”

The report said that Jim McNally, a locker-room attendant, and John Jastremski, an equipment assistant, were involved in releasing air from the footballs. It said that besides those two and Brady, no other Patriots personnel, including Coach Bill Belichick, were aware of any wrongdoing. The report separately determined that the Patriots had not deliberately tried to introduce an improper football for kicking and cleared kicker Stephen Gostkowski of any wrongdoing.

In the A.F.C. championship game in January, the visiting Indianapolis Colts suggested that game balls were underinflated. This was found to be true, leading to the investigation into whether anyone affiliated with the Patriots had been involved.

The Patriots won, 45-7, but in the first half, a member of the Colts gave the officials a ball that appeared to be underinflated. The officials checked all 12 of the Patriots game balls and determined that all but one were below the mandated amount of air pressure.

In a statement, Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the N.F.L., said: “Troy Vincent and his team will consider what steps to take in light of the report, both with respect to possible disciplinary action and to any changes in protocols that are necessary to avoid future incidents of this type.”

It is not the first time that the N.F.L. has concluded that the Patriots broke rules to gain an advantage. In 2007, the league fined the Patriots and Belichick and ordered the team to forfeit a first-round draft pick after a Patriots staff member was discovered videotaping signals by Jets coaches during a game at the Meadowlands.

Belichick was fined $500,000 and the team was ordered to pay $250,000. Belichick accepted full responsibility for the incident, which Goodell called “a calculated and deliberate attempt to avoid longstanding rules designed to encourage fair play and promote honest competition on the playing field.”
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Belichick is a great coach. But this is far from the first time his team/organization has been accused of cheating.

Brady is a great quarterback. Too bad if this is true.

IMO slightly deflated footballs would have virtually no effect on the outcome of the game. But it is cheating, nonetheless. (Like doctoring a baseball, or messing around with the basepaths, or any of a number of other tricks the home team might come up with in various sports.)

Tarnish hardly matters to Belichick, it seems to me. His reputation is near bottom anyway.

But for the All-American boy, Brady, it might matter more. His legacy was headed for the absolute top level. Now it somewhat tarnished.

I like the way the Patriots play football. Cheating? Not so much ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/sport ... ticed.html
Part-Timer in Patriots’ Deflation Case Hung Around Till He Was Noticed
By DAN BARRYMAY 7, 2015

Imagine this Massachusetts moment. Kickoff for the A.F.C. championship game between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts is minutes away. Gillette Stadium is packed, while another 40 million fans are waiting by their televisions. The winner goes to the Super Bowl.

And just as four referees are leaving the locker room for the field, they notice that items vital to their endeavor are missing: the footballs.

The footballs!

Walt Anderson, the meticulous crew chief of this unit, is known for being calm before games, but now he is not; nothing like this has happened in his 19 years in the league. As the frantic hunt for the bags of game-ready balls continues, he lets loose with an uncharacteristic expletive before stating what is foremost in everybody’s minds:

“We have to find the footballs.”

The report said Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was probably aware of the deflated footballs he used against the Indianapolis Colts in the A.F.C. championship game.Tom Brady Probably Knew Footballs Were Doctored, N.F.L. FindsMAY 6, 2015

And who had the footballs at this crucial moment? A part-time employee named Jim McNally, who, at 48 years of age, had been a glorified gofer for the Patriots for two-thirds of his life; a hanger-on who trafficked in “kicks” — sneakers, not fun — and athletic swag.

Investigative Report on A.F.C. Championship Game Footballs
The investigative report into accusations that the New England Patriots improperly deflated game balls in last January’s A.F.C. championship game.

McNally’s title for the last several years has been officials’ locker room attendant, which is not as grand as it sounds. His central duties were to ensure that the referees had things like towels and toiletries, as well as access to an air pump and pressure gauge for the pregame examination of the footballs.

Which, at the moment, are absent. Along with McNally.

The scene is captured in an N.F.L.-commissioned document, released Wednesday, with the curious title of “Investigative Report Concerning Footballs Used During the A.F.C. Championship Game on January 18, 2015.” In laying out its case that McNally and a Patriots colleague had probably conspired to deflate footballs to the advantage of quarterback Tom Brady — who, it says, was quite likely aware of the effort — the report touches on a familiar sports figure: The hanger-on who hangs on just long enough to get in trouble.

Who can forget Kirk Radomski? He started as a teenage batboy for the New York Mets, became a muscle-bound clubhouse aide, and wound up pleading guilty to providing steroids and other drugs to ballplayers.

Or Charlie Samuels? He was the longtime clubhouse manager for the Mets who, in 2012, was charged with confusing the clubhouse for his pied-à-terre and taking off with hundreds of items from the team: jerseys, bats, balls, helmets, pretty much everything but the players themselves. He eventually pleaded guilty to criminal possession of stolen property.

Or Brian McNamee? A former police officer who became a strength-and-conditioning guru, he later told investigators that he had provided performance-enhancing drugs to a few players for the Yankees, and had even injected pitcher Roger Clemens with steroids. Although denied by Clemens, the claim has stood in the way of his induction into baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Or Sean Allen? He was the part-time employee in the University of Miami football team’s equipment room who became the middleman for the corrupt booster Nevin Shapiro, providing money, strip-club outings and other improper gifts to Hurricanes players.

Now add to the list Jim McNally, whose mischief amounts to nothing unlawful and, perhaps, nothing more than a misdemeanor in Roger Goodell’s forgiving court. A seasonal Patriots employee who worked only on home-game days during the 2014-15 season, McNally still developed an air of Patriot entitlement, judging by the “Concerning Footballs” report. In a world where multimillion-dollar athletes come and go, he was a constant at Gillette Stadium, ever-present as a goal post.

McNally and a longtime friend, a Patriots equipment “assistant” named John Jastremski, felt comfortable enough to exchange candid texts about deflating footballs (he even refers to himself as “the deflator”), collecting Patriots memorabilia, and trash-talking about Brady.

“Tom sucks,” McNally writes about the superstar quarterback.

The report explores the almost fetishistic preparation of game balls in professional football — which is understandable, given how much hinges on a quarterback’s comfort with the balls he is throwing.

Jastremski would prepare 20 to 35 footballs for each game, spending an hour trying to break in each ball — with wet towels, dirt, brushes — to the level desired by Brady. This would take up a good part of his week, and also require touch-ups on game day.

There was also the matter of inflation. Brady liked the ball at the lower end of the permissible range — closer to 12.5 pounds of pressure per square inch. But after a game against the Jets in October, Brady angrily complained that the balls felt like “bricks.”

According to the report, Brady’s criticism apparently bruised the feelings of McNally, suggesting that he was in charge of inflation and deflation.

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Charlie Samuels, left, with Mike Piazza, was charged with taking off with hundreds of items from the Mets when he was a clubhouse manager. Credit Kathy Willens/Associated Press
It also seems to explain why the self-proclaimed “deflator” texted foul comments about the franchise quarterback.

The report dryly notes that McNally’s official duties “did not involve the preparation, inflation or deflation of Patriots game balls.”

A few hours before a typical game, the report says, Brady would choose from among the balls prepared by Jastremski. The dozen or so game balls he picked would go in one bag, and another dozen backup balls would go in another bag.

McNally would deliver the bags to the officials’ locker room for pregame inspection. Then, shortly before kickoff, he would carry the game balls for both teams onto the field — though not without either receiving permission by game officials or being accompanied onto the field by game officials.

All this was done leading up to the night of the A.F.C. championship game. In the officials’ locker room, Anderson, the crew chief, tested the game balls for both teams with a pressure gauge. He then marked the footballs with a paint pen, writing “WA” above the words “THE DUKE,” which appears to the left of the N.F.L. logo.

At some point, McNally came in to say: Remember, Walt, Tom likes them at 12.5.

The balls were packed into bags and left in the locker room, which had so many people milling about that one official said it felt “like Grand Central Station.” Anderson had other pregame duties that took him out of the locker room, including a meeting with a broadcasting team and a walk-through of the field.

When it came time for Anderson and a few other officials to go onto the field to begin the game, they could not find the bags of balls. Panic and at least one expletive followed.

What Anderson and the other officials did not realize was that at about 6:30, about 20 minutes before kickoff, McNally had taken the two bags of balls, walked down a tunnel leading to the field, entered a single-toilet bathroom and locked the door — all while being recorded by security cameras.

Less than two minutes later, McNally and the bags of balls emerged from the bathroom. He continued onto the field with his precious, pressurized cargo, a longtime anonymous gofer, unaware of the notoriety that awaited him.
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The New Yorker had a couple of light-hearted takes today. This article:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz ... h-the-jets
N.F.L. Sentences Brady to a Year with the Jets
By Andy Borowitz

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (The Borowitz Report) – In what football insiders are calling an unexpectedly severe punishment, the National Football League has sentenced the New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady to a year with the New York Jets for his role in the so-called Deflategate scandal.

The punishment drew howls of protest from Patriots fans and management, with many calling it the harshest in league history, but N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell defended the decision as “a necessary deterrent.”

“We need to send the message that this league has zero tolerance for cheating,” Goodell said. “We believe that a year of playing quarterback for the Jets sends that message loud and clear.”

Brady was reportedly in a state of shock when he heard the news of his punishment. He later met with reporters in a hastily called press conference during which he frequently seemed on the verge of tears.

“I am going to fight this decision with every fibre of my being,” Brady said. “This is America. You can’t force a person to play for the Jets.”

At a sports bar in Manhattan, the reaction to the impending arrival of the Jets’ longtime nemesis was muted. One Jets fan observed, “Look, Brady’s a dick, but even he didn’t deserve this.”
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Toppy Vann wrote:
There is one thing with the "weather deflated the balls" vs the theory "the ball boy did it." How would it explain that the balls used by the Patriots deflated and the Colts who couldn't have won on the day if they played another 4 quarters stayed fully inflated???

How's the physics deal with one...haha.
I would think it depends on the conditions under which the ball was actually initially inflated. So for example, let's suppose that Brady does indeed like a softer ball. If they inflated the ball to the league specs using warmer air, contact with a colder environment say a football field could cause the ball pressure to drop. Let also suppose the other team inflated their ball at conditions closer to the actual condition on the field, their ball would likely experience less of a drop in pressure. There is a similar relationship to altitude. Inflate a ball in Seattle and then take to Denver, the pressure of the ball is going to drop. Agreed an unlikely set of circumstances but if you were trying to fiddle things a little, filling a ball with hot air to spec could see it soften a little as it cools down. Might pass the intial smell test as well.
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