Only 3 of colts balls were tested while 11 or 12 of pats balls were and by two different methods..... All failed. Brady and Oats are guilty as sin. NO ONE pays a million bucks and gives up draft picks in the NFL if they’re innocent and no QB suddenly becomes best buds with equip mgrs they haven’t spoken too in yrs, not to mention having film and audio all but sealing their guilt.
You Brady worshippers will never admit wrongdoing but the club is always enmeshed in one controversy or another. They are the Black Sox of the NFL.
Besides they haven’t won the big game in over 10 yrs and last yr was a fluke since Seattle handed pats the victory on the worst play call in NFL history.
*All* the balls should have “failed” if they’d done the measurements properly. Anyone who remembers jr high science should remember that, though I concede most people may not have been really paying attention in class. Even Exponent fully agrees with that, though they didn’t analyze it.
The problem is that it takes about 15 minutes to reach 95% of equilibrium, and they completed measuring the Pats balls at the beginning of that and didn’t measure the colts balls until the end of that. The Colts balls were generally almost a full PSI OVER what they should have been if they’d have been measured in a timely fashion.
The post-game measurements, inadequate as they were, suggest that by the time the Pats balls were completed being measured and air added by league officials, at least one was still 18 degrees below equilibrium.
Four of the Colts balls were tested at half time, three failed. Four of the Colts balls were tested again at the end of the game, three failed.
One of many links: http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/content/wells-report-more-probable-than-not-colts-played-with-under-inflated-footballs/33495/