Pats

[hq2]

road games can change the football psi due to the difference in atmospheric pressure. If the Pats fill there balls at Gillette Statium to a set psi where the atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi and travel to Denver where the atmospheric pressure is 12 psi those footballs will have a lower psi then what was set at Gillette. The same analogy applies when scuba diving where if you fill and tie off a balloon underwater say 60 ft, the pressure will be high in the balloon and when allowed to float to the surface the balloon will get bigger with less pressure inside
just food for thought.

Did a simple ideal gas law calculation (PV=nRT). As shown by another guy up above, you need for the field temperature to be around
10 below zero to get pressures in the range of 1.5 psi lower, assuming the balls were inflated at room temperature. The game
temperature was around 45 degrees. At that temperature, there should have been less than .5 psi difference. Sorry, Bill, no way the
atmospheric temperature makes that kind of a difference.

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by hq2

Did a simple ideal gas law calculation (PV=nRT). As shown by another guy up above, you need for the field temperature to be around
10 below zero to get pressures in the range of 1.5 psi lower, assuming the balls were inflated at room temperature. The game
temperature was around 45 degrees. At that temperature, there should have been less than .5 psi difference. Sorry, Bill, no way the
atmospheric temperature makes that kind of a difference.

Apparently you were not paying attention to Bill's press conference completely.

The process of breaking in the balls for better tackiness actually artificially raised the PSI by 1 lb , is what they just discovered this week, follow along here, then he said they give the balls to the ref, he makes sure it is 12.5 let's say. Now a couple hours go by and the balls are brought out to the field, since they have had time to acclimate for 2 hours in that controlled enviroment for a while after the rub down or whatever, they have gone back to the 1 psi less by gametime. They play the game in 45 degree weather wet and cold and lose another .5 psi. He said that, I heard him say a total of 1-1/2 lb . That is what they could come up with to explain a loss of pressure. Nobody let any air out.

That brings to question, after the refs made sure the balls were 12.5 psi minimum 2 hours before the game, why did they not check them right before the game? That would have accounted for 1 lb of air missing, but they did not and they did not correct them. We are talking about footballs here. weather change accounts for the other half pound.

I believe every word Bill said.

he even had to once again defend his stance of the spygate bull chit
The signals they recorded were being filmed in front of 80,000 people, they all saw it, the Pats were not trying to hide anything, they were wrong about the rule, paid the price, MOVE ON PEOPLE.


Mike, thanks for the NFL report


the NFL can spend whatever they want to on their witch hunt, they can also stuff it up their corn holes