[mmichaels1970]

Sorry. It was the chair of physics at Boston College. The original link pointed to this. That same link now points to MIT.

“The pressure loss due to the temperature alone cannot be the issue in my mind,” said BC physics professor Michael J. Naughton, after plugging temperature data into a formula that calculates pressure loss. “If the footballs were notably lower pressure, then the only way it could have happened was if someone went in and stuck a needle in the ball and let two-thirds of the gas out, which means it is now up to the NFL to follow the chain of command — but no logical physics can explain the kind of pressure loss they’re talking about."

[TexasGator]

“Sorry. It was the chair of physics at Boston College.”

Sorry. You are the victim of another’s lies. I found where your Naughton statement is printed:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/21/how-and-when-did-the-new-england-patriots-game-balls-get-deflated/

If you click on his embedded link you actually find that Naughton supports the weather theory:

“The chair of Boston College’s physics department is backing up claims that cold weather could be the reason that some of the footballs used on the field Sunday evening during the New England Patriots’ 45-7 drubbing of the Indianapolis Colts may have been deflated.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/01/physicist_cold_weather_could_have_deflated_patriots_footballs

[lepton]

If the footballs were notably lower pressure, then the only way it could have happened was if someone went in and stuck a needle in the ball and let two-thirds of the gas out,

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If taken as a literal statement, the numbers there are completely wrong...like not even in the ball-park, wrong. Being that it has been filtered through journalists, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt though.

If they let 2/3 of the gas out, that much gas wouldn’t leave and the ball would be trying to implode.