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Someone cheated. Of course the NFL doesn't want to admit that physics actually exists because if they did they'd have egg on their face. So they seem to be saying, nothing to see here. BTW Mr. Brady is having another great year despite his NFL imposed vacation at the start of the year.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/12/11/giants-measured-steelers-footballs-at-11-4-11-8-psi/
From Sally Jenkins article.
"Now, there are two things to take from this. The first is obvious. You don’t need a legion of scientists and lawyers to know what anyone with a car knows: Cold weather causes air pressure to drop in footballs, the same as it does in your tires. The only people who don’t know that are hermetically sealed in Park Avenue offices and only travel by soft shoe and NFL limo. If Steelers footballs were underinflated, the most likely explanation is not that someone deflated them by hand but that the game was played in temperatures in the low 40s, with a wind chill of 28. Just as natural deflation is the most likely explanation for what happened in the AFC title game, when the Patriots’ balls measured an average of 11.3 in wet, even colder weather."
Wow...... Imagine that (sarcasm intended)................