Posted on 01/23/2015 12:52:58 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
For more than a decade, Tom Brady has established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time, one of the sport’s most popular and respected players. On Wednesday, Brady may have jeopardized his credibility for good.
Like Patriots coach Bill Belichick, Brady denied having anything to do with footballs being deflated in the AFC Championship Game and denied knowing it had occurred until the next day, but to the quarterback’s former peers, the NFL’s golden boy lost some of the luster he had earned in his 15-year career.
“I did not believe what Tom had to say,” former quarterback and ESPN analyst Mark Brunell said.
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Has Coach Payton, NO, made a statement about fairness and equal treatment?
The Patriots led the Colts 17-7 at halftime, but outscored Indianapolis 28-0 in the second half to secure their sixth Super Bowl appearance since 2001.
Bwahhh!
As such, I put most of the blame on Tom Brady himself. And one more salient fact: Brady admitted in a news article published in 2013 that he likes footballs to be slightly underinflated. How does a US$100,000 fine and a two-game suspension the start of next season feel, Mr. Brady?
If the NFL does not suspend either Belecheck or Brady, and New England wins, the Super Bowl will be seen as illegitimate by every football fan outside of the New England States.
Brady didn’t know about this like Obama didn’t know about the IRS scandals.
LMAO ....good one.
I ref volleyball and the psi range is 4.3 -4.6. I can tell by feel if it is 4.3 or 4.5.
OK, OK, you win. Nobody cheated, the balls spontaneously deflated.
Bad luck it happened to NE, who have earned a tarnished reputation because of prior bad acts.
Tom Bady. Snapping necks and banging 10s for 15 years. Jealous eh?
Nobody is getting suspended for this. I don’t think anybody has even been punished for breaking this rule before. And 99% of football fans think this whole “controversy” is basically comedy and will not see the SB as illegitimate.
My improved calculation: A football with a gauge pressure of 12.5 psi at 72 F should have a gauge pressure of 11.4 psi at 49 F.
This calculation assumes that the air is behaving as an ideal gas, and the ball is at sea level. Neither is true of course, but won't affect the results very much. What might affect the results more are other factors, like the non-rigid behavior of the ball, as lepton has pointed out.
pv = nRT
Assuming v, n, R are constant:
P/Po = T/To
p= T/To/Po
P = (49+273) / (72+273)*(14.7+12.5)= 25.4 psia
PSIG = (25.4-14.7) = 10.7
“I ref volleyball and the psi range is 4.3 -4.6. I can tell by feel if it is 4.3 or 4.5.”
LOL. The ball can vary more than over a psi just to temperature at playing conditions alone!
Fixed. All other football fans will think the Patriots are cheaters and will a view a Super Bowl XLIX victory as fundamentally tainted.
No, football fans across the board. I’m a Steelers fan and I think it’s silly. My Packers fan co-worker also find it hilarious. My Colts fan boss find it dumb. People don’t care. There’s nothing new about ball manipulation. And also nothing new about nobody getting punished for it:
http://espn.go.com/blog/minnesota-vikings/post/_/id/11218/nfl-aware-of-game-ball-incident-during-panthers-vikings
As both teams dealt with the freezing temperatures, Fox cameras showed sideline attendants using heaters to warm up game balls, which is against league rules.
Zimmer said he hadn’t heard anything from the league about it on Monday, adding, “Somebody told me (Carolina’s) ball boys were doing it.”
The only people who will find it tainted are whiny drama queens who make every HUGH and SERIES. Out here in reality it’s a dumb story to pass the most boring week on the NFL calendar.
I believe you made the same temperature conversion error in your post #192 that I made in my post #60 (I corrected it in my post #191).
K = (F + 460) * 5/9
Not K = F + 273
Teams should no longer possess footballs on the sidelines. The NFL should be solely in charge of football maintenance.
I think the league realized at some point that their rule is kind of silly (really why 12.5 to 13.5 PSI, what the great tragedy of 12 or 14 or even 10.5) so they’ve kind of taken to ignoring it. The league used to be solely in charge of that, but nobody liked it, and it didn’t work either:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/reminder—brad-johnson-paid-for-super-bowl-footballs-to-be-doctored-142642094.html
As the MLB has learned repeatedly over the years, the players have a way they like the football and they’ll do what it takes to make it the way they like. The more this thing has banged around the more I’m with Aaron Rodgers (from before this whole “controversy”), it shouldn’t even be a rule, let the QB setup the balls how he likes, as long as it’s not completely retarded (like stickum) who cares.
one ball was left inflated just in case they were caught...
that’s how you know they were cheating.
Thank you. My first calc yesterday used an on-line calculator. Today I got sloppy.
273.16 K corresponds to exactly 0.01 °C .018 °F.
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