[Colofornian]

Not only that, but the effect of under inflating the ball is to make it a little less accurate, and a little less likely to go as far....like .003 seconds slower to go 20 yards.

Ya know, we could review LOTS of TV clips of "would have been" certain TDs had the ball hung up a little more for the open receiver to run under it.

An underinflated ball is also more likely to "hang up" -- allowing a receiver on a deeper pass to run under it.

An underinflated ball is also going to allow receivers to hang on to a ball easier in wetter conditions. (Indy had no such luxury for an entire half)

[kjam22]

I’ll ask you again.... have you ever thrown a football in your life?

[lepton]

1) Do you have any idea how little 3 milliseconds is?

2), it doesn’t make it hang up any more, it simply makes it infitesimally weaker of a throw...which doesn’t go downfield or reach quite as much altitude to hang as well - which is the OPPOSITE of your argument - by a trivial margin.

The effect is it’ll let a defender get a little bit closer - again, trivially - than the more fully inflated ball.

[lepton]

1) Do you have any idea how little 3 milliseconds is?

2), it doesn’t make it hang up any more, it simply makes it infitesimally weaker of a throw...which doesn’t go downfield or reach quite as much altitude to hang as well - which is the OPPOSITE of your argument - by a trivial margin.

The effect is it’ll let a defender get a little bit closer - again, trivially - than the more fully inflated ball.

[lepton]

1) Do you have any idea how little 3 milliseconds is?

2), it doesn’t make it hang up any more, it simply makes it infitesimally weaker of a throw...which doesn’t go downfield or reach quite as much altitude to hang as well - which is the OPPOSITE of your argument - by a trivial margin.

The effect is it’ll let a defender get a little bit closer - again, trivially - than the more fully inflated ball.