Quote: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.

 

I think I'm pretty objective in terms of me not really caring all that much, other than I pretty much think I'm correct, and I haven't really heard a very good explanation for why clot balls remained within the NFL psi range and the pats balls didn't...

 

I hate both teams.  I can't stand either QB.  So I think I'm pretty impartial about it.

 

But facts are facts.  You are correct, this was not a perfect experiment.  There are some unknowns...  But a rational person who looks at this specific senario would see that something is amiss with the patriots side of this story.

 

Here's the facts.  Both clots and pats balls were checked at halftime.  The pats balls were under regulation by 2 psi, meaning that they were at least a 10.5 psi.  (the league  minimum is 12.5 psi, and our prima dona cheater Brady likes an under-inflated football).  The clots balls were within regulation.  

 

So that means that the pats balls at bare minimum deflated by 2 psi, but apparently the clots balls didn't.  The range to be in regulation is 12.5 to 13.5 psi.  

 

I'm assuming that the balls are checked in the same room for both teams.  The referee's office or whatever.  Would  that not be a logical assumption?  So if the balls are checked in the same room, that is controlled.  So the balls would be weighed in the same ambient temperature.  The clots balls maintained regulation status, the pats ball didn't.

 

Dude, it's science.  You are right that we cannot claim that this is a perfect science experiment and that all controls have been met and we've zeroed out all variables down to 1.  But I think we're close enough to begin extrapolating.

 

And my extrapolation shows Belicheat to be the greatest cheater in NFL history.  

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