[Delta Dawn]

You are correct about the ppsi. If the cold was to the point of being dangerous to the players, then yes, they would have been used. It was my understanding that the game was played in the 50’s, so probably not. Again, non-tampered footballs all remained within the legal tolerances as required by the rule book, so cold weather is just a ruse...

[TexasGator]

“Again, non-tampered footballs all remained within the legal tolerances as required by the rule book, so cold weather is just a ruse...”

Considering that a football under these conditions could lose over a pound of pressure due to the temperature change, they will NOT remain within the 12.5 to 13.5 psig band.

[lepton]

Again, non-tampered footballs all remained within the legal tolerances as required by the rule book, so cold weather is just a ruse...

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The problem there, is that if the Colts balls began at a temperature of 75, to reach 50 degrees they have had to have lost more pressure than the entire range of allowable pressures. To stay within that range would either require something hinky going on...or they were never warm to begin with.

If one set was warm and another wasn’t, then that throws all of your assumptions about how they should act relative to one another out the window, down the street, and off the cliff.