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To: ThunderSleeps

“Would a QB even notice the difference due to pressure changes amid all the other influences?”

Oh, YES, we would notice. We can throw balls further which are under-inflated.


54 posted on 01/24/2019 6:49:27 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Oh, YES, we would notice. We can throw balls further which are under-inflated.


Really? In the majority of NFL football games, the footballs are underinflated, and no one notices. The footballs Mahome used were 2.6 PSI (+/- 0.1) lower on the field than they were in the locker room. I didn’t see any notice of him complaining or reporting.

Also, the few other experiments and simulations both that have been done show that the difference for 2.0 PSI (Far larger a difference than any actual 2014 AFCCG footballs) a 20 yard throw is in the opposite direction (shorter), and less than two inches. So, he’d need to explain that.

Here’s an example from Sports Science, which falls well within the other test results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSJNsGUSAJ8


77 posted on 01/24/2019 8:02:12 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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