Come on,this is BeliCHEAT in action. The whole team knew the footballs would be deflated and practiced with them. Heck, they’ve probably been using this trick for all home games for 5 or more years. When the NFL found out about their taping of hand signals, they punished them for doing it for SIX YEARS.
On reconsideration, they’ve probably used this cheat at away games too, not just home games.
Once someone starts to cheat and is caught(in this case repeatedly),who knows how much else they are doing? Consider what baseball has done...how about an ASTRERISKor two next to their 3 (or 4) SuperBowl titles.
Yeah, the Colts weren’t close but the Ravens lost a very close game the week before.
Just to point out, including the ball boy, the only people to handle the footballs from the time they are inspected and not in play, are officials. If he cheated, it was by buying NFL officials.