Sounds like some bad tire valves on my car years ago. Could it be that the Pats balls had bad valves from the factory? I don't know and I more suspect that one of the ball boys was sticking air needles in, but a batch of balls with defective valves or bladders is a potential.
Spygate over Million Dollar fine that BELICHICK gladly wrote the NFL a check for a Million Dollars as the NFL conveniently lost the evidence to show the public.
Give me the Seahawks whose QB is another Tim Tebow who praises the Lord first thing after the game win or lose.
It can’t be bad valves if the balls maintained their pressure between halftime and the end of the game.
The simplest explanation is that one group of the Pats balls were simply warmer prior to the initial inspection than other groups. A change from 75F to 50F is more than enough to bring a ball from the maximum legal pressure to beyond the minimum.
This also suggests that if nothing funny was going on there, and that the Colts balls were checked at halftime as well and found to be within parameters, that the Colts balls were of a lower temperature when they were prepped to be submitted - like perhaps just off the bus, or from an outside practice.
I find it also interesting that people are claiming that this happened at the previous Colt game...where the ball attendants were supplied by the Colts.