Quote:Sorry, but the clots balls were inflated to the proper psi and maintained that psi.  They are the control group...

 

Illegal, on the other hand is a very good word choice...  The patriot way is to go right up to the line of what constitutes legality.  Face it, the control group was there.  The clots balls maintained the psi...  The pat balls didn't.  Clearly something was done to change the results in the "variable".  That something was done by the patriot organization.

 

It's actually very simple.  

 

1 set of balls maintained psi.  1 set deflated.  The balls were not defective...  Therefore, someone within the organization tampered with the balls.  

 

Case closed.

 

Yeah but in an experiment containing a control group, you're usually only testing one variable per group right?  If each team's game balls were inflated and stored on different sides of the stadium, took different paths through the stadium to get where they were going, were rubbed or prepared differently by each team's QB or whoever else handles them, etc...     Bottom line is there are a multitude of different things that happened to each group of game balls.  There was no true experiment being run here.  Calling the clot balls the "control group" is convenient for your position, but it's not a stance that someone who hopes to remain objective would take.

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