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On January 26 2015 05:27 usedtocare wrote:


Anything said above went right over your head. Must be a blissful life you are living lol

On January 26 2015 06:10 farvacola wrote:
I'm gonna go with Bill Nye on this one.

On January 26 2015 06:41 farvacola wrote:
Josh Gordon failed another drug test and is gone a year lol. What a noob.

On January 26 2015 06:18 GreenHorizons wrote:


Yeah I agree with Nye too, he isn't exactly unbiased though as a known Hawks fan but I think the reality is pretty obvious.

On January 26 2015 07:35 qrs wrote:
I looked up what Nye said: "Rubbing the football, I don't think you can change the pressure". Considering that he hasn't experimented at all and is just giving an offhand opinion, this isn't really worth addressing, but in case you're wondering how rubbing a football could temporarily alter air pressure (which I wondered myself before seeing people offer an explanation): friction creates heat; heat expands the air inside the ball until it cools again. Also, roughing up the football could temporarily deform it slightly, altering the ball's shape and thus its volume.

On January 26 2015 08:04 vult wrote:
I just love how the Patriots can continue to do weird shit and survive as a team lol. Living in New England, it is funny to listen to people complain about how the Pats get into controversy and people blame them for cheating.

Should be an interesting Super Bowl Cheering for the Seahawks!

On January 26 2015 07:43 usedtocare wrote:


Yeah, it sounds like he didn't even undersrand the subject of that conversation. What will happen in the near future is multiple reports of similar experiments will appear, confirming the same findings that Belichik and Carnegie Mellon folks had. Belichik's estimates turned out to be more conservative btw.

What really is puzzling is Colts PSI. Not that we know what it was, but it is a fact that it had to decrease realistically by at least 1.5. If this can be scientifically verified we will have a case of Colts overinflating their footballs (possibly to Luck's liking)

On January 26 2015 08:38 red_ wrote:


So, the Pats overinflated their backup balls as well right? Because that makes more sense. /s

On January 26 2015 08:45 usedtocare wrote:


Next time you post go back and check the story.

Seriously, half of the arguing in this thread is due to ppl having issues with trying to comprehend stuff. Like no one should even need to explain Bill Nye's comment, since it's a blunder, but some still go through the effort.

On January 26 2015 09:03 GreenHorizons wrote:


Most of the arguing is because people are taking this wayyy too seriously. Also people are just being stubborn. Tom Brady had no complaints about the balls, they were how he liked them, it also happens that they were under-inflated.

Anyone who thinks that happened by coincidence is just being naive. There is no point in saying definitively whether they "cheated" to achieve it or not, short of having a video of someone clearly manipulating the ball pressure no one's minds are getting changed by science whether it's legitimate or in jest.

Hope Brady isn't counting on soft balls in the Superbowl though.

"Sorry Ref! We didn't realize we were resting our balls on top of the air-conditioner!?"

On January 26 2015 09:12 usedtocare wrote:


I can't agree with this attitude. You know what might happen? No fine, no warning. Maybe nothing happened, a non-story. No one ever measured PSI in the middle of a cold game. I can't wait for the outcome of this. Pats have talked and acted as if they are 100% clean, it's subjective but that's how I feel.