Nope.
The Colts’ footballs would have been affected exactly the same amount. But if the loss of pressure was 1 psi, the Patriots’ footballs starting at 12.5 would have been under-inflated by 1 psi and the Colts’ footballs starting at 13.5 psi would have met the NFL standards. But since we don’t know what the original Colts’ inflation pressure was and the NFL either doesn’t know or isn’t saying, we can only guess. I am only trying to define the range of possibilities.
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I posted earlier today a conspiracy theory that the Colts did this on purpose knowing that the Pats balls would be low. The plan was to ‘complain’ about the Pats balls during the game. Of course, this is just a conspiracy theory ...