[Pearls Before Swine]

Belicheck benches players for weeks when they fumble. Maybe there’s some motivational aspect.

[razorback-bert]

I posted this finding a few days ago on a deflate thread and nobody noticed.

[Jim Noble]

Maybe Eli Manning got one of the Pats deflated balls by accident, so when Tyree pushed it against his helmet...

[RetSignman]

A lot of Magnesium carbonate is great for holding on to a football.

[danamco]

Would you like to see the football in soccer decided by the home team, LOL!!!

[Dr. Thorne]

It’s gonna be tough for Bunco Bill or Tricky Tom to defraud the NFL officials this weekend.

[2harddrive]

DUH: It is EASIER to hold onto a softer football.

[bunkerhill7]

Deflategate Mystery solved:

It`s done with MAGNETS:

Neodymium-Nickel Super-Magnets inside the Patriots` gloves and flexible leather-looking Neodymium-Nickel Super-Magnetic refrigerator magnets glued to the outside of the football.

[lepton]

His statistics are atrocious. Worse than Michael Mann.

much more obvious mess than it is worth the time to write out, but here are some analysis that hit the high points.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/your-guide-to-deflate-gateballghazi-related-statistical-analyses/

http://regressing.deadspin.com/why-those-statistics-about-the-patriots-fumbles-are-mos-1681805710/+kylenw

And

http://tomhayden3.com/2015/01/24/patriots/

There are more detailed ones available as well.