Subjective opinions aside, the rules were violated, measured by two objective pressure gauges.
I was unaware of the Vikings heating the ball on a cold day, and don’t know the rules regarding that, if the rules were broken, the penalties should result.
As for the “no one can feel a difference” etc etc, why did they do it? For no reason? Unlikely.
Subjective opinions aside, the rules were violated, measured by two objective pressure gauges.
The referees, who are in control of the balls, and have full authority to change out substandard balls at will, for any reason, or for no reason at all, and who apparently for a few plays swapped the Patriots ball with a Colts one?
Physics, for allowing the footballs to act like other inflated objects and follow the principles of the ideal gas laws despite the NFL rules?