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A quarterback wants the footballs to be consistent. He would not want them quickly and haphazardly deflated in a bathroom for a few seconds each.

This, of course, assumes that his "deflator" agent didn't spend 8-9 seconds deflating every practice ball for practice. If he could spend a little time consistently doing that before every practice, what exactly would be inconsistent when it came to games?

The pressure of the footballs had absolutely no impact on the outcome of the game. The Patriots beat the Colts easily and outscored them more in the second half.

In the 2nd half, the Pats scored once on a short-drive TD set up by an interception; on that drive, Brady threw no passes.

Take away that defensive-set-up TD, the Pat offense scored on 3-of-5 drives in the 2nd half; in the first half, the Pat offense scored on 3-of-5 drives (so the same in terms of scoring drives)

Secondly, take away a 30-yard Brady pass to Vereen in the first half (if Vereen wasn't able to hold on to such a softened ball in pelting rain), and the Pats wouldn't have scored that drive.

No score that drive, puts the Pats up 10-7 at half instead of 17-7.

It was only when the Colts were down 17-7 that they essentially abandoned their ground game, which, up until then, was gaining 5 yards a pop.

In a pelting rain, the ground gain is essential.

'Twas the two-score lead that moved the Colts out of the ground game...dangerous to do in such weather.

Would the Colts still have lost? Perhaps. Would the game have been closer minus the softened balls? Probably.

Anybody who knows anything about football and/or is capable of understanding the Ideal Gas Law knows the charges against Tom Brady are fraudulent.

Deflategate report’s science holds up - http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/05/06/physics-professor-deflategate-report-science-holds/T2HqI3vFVivr9grXOD2VEI/story.html Yes...deflategate report correct on its science; Pats on the other hand grasping for straws:

A Freeper last year was citing the "Ideal Gas Law" angle last year...yet...

...University professor Martin Schmaltz....the discrepancies between drops in pressure between the Colts balls and the Patriots balls was likely too much to be chance, according to Schmaltz. “I see that the Colts’ balls pressure dropped about half a PSI and the Patriots balls seem to be more like 1.5, or maybe between one and 1.5,” says Schmaltz. “So it’s a little mysterious why the Patriots’ balls dropped more.”

(Well, not so "mysterious" when you have an equipment mgr who actually...truly...nicknamed himself "the deflator")

Continuing that link excerpt: According to the report, the Patriots’ balls began the game inflated to at least 12.5 PSI, while the Colts’ balls were around 13 PSI, give or take a tenth of a PSI. But it’s not the drop in PSI from that reference point that Schmaltz says looks bad for the Patriots, but the drops relative to each other. According to Schmaltz, the ideal gas law equation suggests a drop in temperature from 68 or 70 would produce a drop of less than 1 PSI in a ball inflated to 12.5 or 13 PSI. While the report found the Colts’ balls measured at or around the league-minimum 12.5 PSI at halftime, many of the Patriots balls were a PSI or more below that threshold, a drop so large its unlikely to have been caused by atmospheric conditions. While a 12.5 PSI ball could drop to 11.6 PSI, by his calculations, with a temperature drop from 68 or 70 degrees to 51, given both sets being subject to the same conditions, it’s suspicious the Patriots’ balls would drop so much further.

And here we had all these FREEPERcheaterapologists in January & February of last year providing defenses for cheating by citing "science"...yet never could address why the 51-degree weather failed to similarly impact the Colts' footballs...

I think these FREEPERs would make good cheater apologists explaining why it tends to be dead DEMOCRATS who vote...or why it's living DEMOCRATS who seem to vote early & vote often...

They both played with the same balls.

The Patriots - who I hate - won the game with soft balls or hard balls. This is a non-issue.

The Patriot footballs were measured right after they came in from outside. They were still cold. Only 4 of the Colt footballs were measured after they had been inside for 30 minutes or more and had warmed up.

There were two separate gauges with different results.

There is a margin of error in the measurements.

The results were within the range that would be expected based on the Ideal Gas Laws. There was no deflating of footballs.