Angelus said:
I mean correct me if I'm wrong but the Colts' balls were fine weren't they? |
You're right, it's not consistent. Know why? Because it would actually create more pressure inside the ball, ergo, the pressure would've dropped further had it just been in the rain.
As far as the Colts balls, we've no numbers regarding them, other than the NFL backing it's refs (who also have no firm numbers pre-game for either the Patriots or the Colts, odd no, considering this was basically a sting to catch the Patriots in the act...and yet they didn't have the refs log the pressure in each ball, and didn't have video on the balls for the 2 hrs before the game?). Can only scientifically test what we know, not what we don't know. The Colts could've submitted over-pressurized balls, like Aaron Rodgers prefers to do. Which would explain why at half-time, their balls were within regulation.
That video, on it's own, shows that weather, barometric pressure and rain could quite easily have brought balls inflated to the league minimum 12.5psi, down to the half-time pressure (The video starts at 13.5psi, however, the drop in pressure is roughly 2lbs/psi by the end of the test). And here's another thing, we _know_ pressure changes w/ temperature. How exactly did the Colts balls, NOT change? Doesn't that go against what we know scientifically?
