NFL Investigating Patriots
si.com reports NFL Investigation for Patriots cheating with football deflation in AFC Championship game. Report comes from Indianapolis, GO FIGURE.
http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/01/19/nfl-investigate-patriots-deflating-footballs-afc-championship-game
I call Bullshit on Indianapolis for being whiny! Brady is Awsome!
What do you think?
Edit: The entire point of this is that Brady has been hot this season. Patriots kicked ass in the game and now Indianapolis is calling foul play and that the Patriots used a deflated ball? It is an investigation and came from Indianapolis.
Does Tom Brady really need to use a deflated football to win the game? He is a Michigan QB and I will defend his play on the field just as I am rooting for the Patriots to win the SB.
Maize-N-Blue Rules. Michigans former QB is great!
Down vote me for the thread, it's not like it is not everywhere to be read. Since the excitement of Harbaugh it has been getting a little boring on the blog other then the recruit information. Fall can't get here soon enough.
GO BLUE!!!!!!
January 19th, 2015 at 8:05 AM ^
Who knew a deflated football was the reason for LeGarrette Blount shredding through the Colts' defense. I surely didn't.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:13 AM ^
January 19th, 2015 at 8:48 AM ^
More momentum yes, but obviously the decrease in inertia associated with the decreased mass of the football would mean that Colt defenders are even MORE pathetic in not being able to tackle the man!
HA SCIENCE! Wow... I really never thought I would be talking about inertia, momentum and PV=nRT on MGoBlog... even if it is all in jest ...
lol
January 19th, 2015 at 9:44 AM ^
The balls would most likely look deflated when the "warmer" air used to inflate the football condensed due to the colder ambient air. No mass would be lost in this case.
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January 19th, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
Right, but according to the article apparently they weighed different suggesting an actual difference in mass no?
January 19th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ^
I guess they found a really sensitve bathroom scale, no?
This allegation is simply crazy. If a ball were over-or under-inflated, you could feel it, but weighing balls to discern a smaller or greater mass of air?
January 19th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
SHE'S A WITCH!!!
January 19th, 2015 at 10:32 AM ^
BURN HER!
January 19th, 2015 at 9:32 PM ^
TOSS HER IN THE LAKE AND SEE IF SHE FLOATS FIRST
January 19th, 2015 at 11:02 AM ^
Lifting your feet is also a proven weight loss technic. Defeats sensitive bathroom scales.
January 19th, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
miraculous is how the level of air in the footballs absolutely prohibited the Colts from getting a finger on Brady the entire afternoon. I guess the center had more energy from snapping a deflated football? I guess.
January 19th, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
Anybody measured Blount's hands?
January 19th, 2015 at 12:22 PM ^
This is a little OT, but Revis and Blount must be really happy that Tampa Bay didn't think either of them was worth keeping.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:06 AM ^
not the Patriots.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:07 AM ^
If the ball were fully inflated this surely would have only been a 28 pt loss for Indy.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:08 AM ^
Or, they just don't know science - the cold will cause air to compress naturally.
I just can't imagine what benefits would come from deflating a ball? Most certainly it wasn't anything that would cause a downright offensive beating; nor would it prevent Indiana from scoring more than 7 points.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:10 AM ^
It wasn't that cold out there though. It was about 50 degrees at game time they said.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:12 AM ^
Well actually the science would dictate that the mass of the air in the ball would remain the same. Unless I'm thinking of PV=nRT wrong.
According to the article the mass changed more than the usual amount that teams configure their footballs for their punters, kickers and Qbs.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:17 AM ^
But honestly though, how much mass could a little bit of air one way or another really impact the performance of the football?
January 19th, 2015 at 8:24 AM ^
Yeah I'm on the same boat. It's kinda ridiculous...
January 19th, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
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January 19th, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
Ever throw an overinflated football compared to an underinflated one? Not sticking up for Indy, but mass is not the concern. You can grip the shit out of an underinflated ball.
January 19th, 2015 at 10:54 PM ^
January 19th, 2015 at 8:24 AM ^
you're looking around 298K to 283K which is a reduction of pressure of a little over .3%. That'd be significantly less than the variance seen from just pumping up the ball differently and measuring the pressure I assume.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:52 AM ^
Then a 15K change would be closer to a 5% change in P, no?
January 19th, 2015 at 8:57 AM ^
Who let the lawyer borrow his chemistry textbook?
January 19th, 2015 at 9:08 AM ^
Now now make sure you're converting Psi to Atm or the correct gas constant.
January 19th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
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January 19th, 2015 at 9:39 AM ^
Air is not an ideal gas so the ideal gas law (PV=nRT) does not always apply, though it is a very good approximation in this simple example at STP. If one wanted to be rigorous about it I'd go with the Peng-Robinson model of a non-ideal gas.
January 19th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^
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But the "gas questions" being discussed are only tangentially related to chemistry.
January 19th, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
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January 19th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^
Is that like stock manipulation?
/humanities major
January 19th, 2015 at 10:33 AM ^
January 19th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^
probably as you were responding. Regardless the resulting difference in calculations wouldn't be enough to tip the scales in this somewhat over(under?)-inflated controversy.
January 19th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^
thePSI measurement error is larger than the pressure change.
January 19th, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
allow for water vapor in their measurements ? I thought not. Maybe the dew point was reached and it all condensed, decreasing the volume ?
January 19th, 2015 at 9:28 AM ^
Deflate the football and the QB can grip the ball better and the RBs fumble less.
This isn't on the Patriots, it's on the officials.
Peyton Manning openly admits he deflates balls on purpose to see if the officials catch it. Some times they do, some times they don't.
January 19th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
Think of a nerf ball in the extreme.
I doubt that the mass has but a minor effect. (The elasticity of the pigskin would also play a role.)
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January 19th, 2015 at 8:12 AM ^
Perhaps they should be investigating the NFC refs in the playoff games.
January 19th, 2015 at 8:12 AM ^
I think this was the first day of the playoffs this year where there were no major refs fuck ups. Pretty much every other game there have been major, game-changing, fuck ups.
January 19th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
what pass interference is anymore.
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January 19th, 2015 at 8:13 AM ^
Brady and other offensive players might be able to grip the ball a bit better if they were a little deflated. Other benefits? Not that I can think of!
January 19th, 2015 at 8:15 AM ^
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