Ideal Gas Law at Play, or?

Sneakylong

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/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/the-nfls-damning-silence-on-a-new-case-of-underinflated-footballs/2016/12/12/6698cae6-c097-11e6-afd9-f038f753dc29_story.html?utm_term=.36b6af63b760

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)................

ode

Lol

rsvman

This again? Really?

I thought the issue with the original complaint was that although all the balls were subjected to the same atmospheric temperature conditions, only the Patriots balls were under inflated. Still waiting for the scientific rationale for that.

Sneakylong

rsvman

Misinformed. Not true. You're not the only one though. Matter of fact you'd most likely be in the majority IMO.

"Here's the other story uncovered in the Wells Report you've NOT been told: 3 of 4 Colts footballs checked at halftime weighed in under 12.5 PSI by one of the two officials measuring them. Then, they suddenly stopped checking. The other 8 Colts footballs simply, and conveniently, went unchecked."

As far as this again? Nothing will come of this (Pittsburg deflategate) because the NFL (now) knows how stupid they looked in the first witch hunt.

Pat's fans can't help but show everyone how incompetent and dumb Goodell and company are though. Much bigger story in New England as you can imagine.

rsvman

Sneakylong Well, if that's the case, then I withdraw my original complaint, and agree with you that WAY too much has been made of deflated footballs.

PA-PLAYA

Here we go again. LOL...

But I will say - I thought of you, Sneak, when I saw this news item a few days ago!

sdandrea1

Just when we thought it was safe to have an NFL discussion without deflategate..............

Typhoon

Pittsburgh Stealers

brsmith

Stealairs

Provisional

All I know is it got down into the 30s at night last week and my mowers tires went low so I could not cut the grass today
Maybe Brady sneaked into my back yard and let the air out?
You think ?

johnnydoom

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I don't care about the argument anymore, but I finally had to look it up myself.

Sneakylong

johnnydoom

I guess the Ideal Gas Law only applied to the 3 out of 4 Colts footballs that were under inflated. IMO you won't see another ridiculous witch hunt into air pressure in footballs again. Time to move on to more serious issues like too much celebration, personalizing shoes or deciding what is or is not a catch etc..

After all we now know that equipment violations take precedent over things like domestic violence, safety for the players (years of covering up concussions) and other life and death issues. Priorities........

brsmith

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