Quote:It was freezing cold and the refs minds are on other things then thinking about whether a ball is inflated or not. I'm not sure what you are questioning there. They've confirmed 11 of the 12 balls where under inflated.


One thing we know about the NFL is they aren't very good about getting ahead of things. They would prefer it to go away. They've shown that throughout Goodell's era.

To be fair it wasn't freezing cold. It was 50 degrees out. Factoring in the temperature and the time the balls were out which was 90 minutes the balls should have only shrunk just under .8 psi. They were 2 pounds underweight so something else happened. It was noticeable enough for it to catch the attention of a player who doesn't handle footballs too often.


Who did it? We don't know that yet. But if it is determined that it was done by a member of the Pats I would expect a heavy punishment to follow considering this isn't their first time skirting around the rules of the NFL.

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