(Upon closer inspection, it does appear that these footballs probably could have used another puff or two of inflationary air in them before they tried to use them...)
So you say, two games with good behavior?
did you mean mea culpa, when you wrote auto de fe ?
From what I understand there is only an upper limit of how much the balls can be inflated not underinflated.
(Upon closer inspection, it does appear that these footballs probably could have used another puff or two of inflationary air in them before they tried to use them...)
How bout Aaron Rogers claiming on radio last October that he has his footballs intentionally inflated to 16 psi, 2.5 over the limit the NFL allows and submits them that way and that refs let them through?
What should his suspension be for publicly stating that he cheats?
Goodell and Kensil were employees of the Jets and look to hose the Patriots, see the ‘penalty’ when Woody Johnson tampered with Darrell Revis on national TV.
The ball has a regulation pressure because sometime prior to 1940 Wilson, the manufacturer, recommended the football be kept at that pressure, and no one bothered to look at it again. Any game played below the mid 50s or above the mid 90s uses out of spec balls if they started in spec.
The report concluded that temperature change alone would account for approximately 1.2PSI change...as many people calculated from the gas laws.
The report made contradictory statements on the effect of the balls getting an undefined amount of wet...up to another .3PSI, depending on which experimental result you pick,
plus a variance between gauges used of about .2 to .4,
plus an individual gauge variance of about .15 PSI,
plus a loss of about .03 PSI from the three measurements.
Plus the effects of the Pats balls being checked first, and the Colts balls just before they ran out for the second half, and the experimentally derived warming curves over time - that last also meaning that the Patriots tests of the effects of rubbing were likely about .7PSI, but not likely relevant at measurement time because of the fairly rapid cool down time.
The report discussed how strongly the gauges changed accuracy based on temperature difference, but I didn’t see where they checked warming from being held for a prolonged period. They only calculated the difference in the ambient temperature of the room, and dismissed that as trivial.
The Colts played with balls that were out of spec as well, according to data from the report.
The officials pumped up the balls at half-time, including pumping up at least one ball for play above the maximum limit, and all of them above what the Colts balls were reported as starting at, and fairly inconsistently.
The report actually concedes that with the information available to them it is possible for the pressure changes to be natural, but describes the scenario as unlikely. It also does some good stuff and some funny stuff with statistics and the limitations of significance with only having 4 Colts balls measured.
Aaron Rodgers recently said he likes his balls at 16 psi. Said he always has a few of the balls real hard and just hopes the refs don’t pick those to be “inspected”. So when will Rodgers be getting his suspension.