Slate gives a shout-out to "one seemingly well-informed contributor

That's awesome, and congrats to whomever in the thread the author was referencing. A couple people mentioned 85 degrees, so shout-outs to both gbdub and zebbielm12.

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AnklePick

January 21st, 2015 at 8:51 PM ^

The banner

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DCGrad

January 21st, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^

The interwebs!

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Commie_High96

January 21st, 2015 at 10:19 PM ^

I think that guy went to UM, so he is perhaps a bit more likely to cite Mgoblog than many other reporters. This is not the first, second or third time Slate has linked to mgoblog.

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jmstranger

January 21st, 2015 at 8:54 PM ^

So the underinfated balls were re-inflated at halftime just before the Patriots went on a 28-0 run? Talk about fury signifying nothing!!

Also, props to those really smart guys in that other thread!

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BiSB

January 21st, 2015 at 8:56 PM ^

Is a Michigan fan. And an alumnus of my high school, if I'm not mistaken.

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Lutha

January 21st, 2015 at 8:58 PM ^

because we're everywhere

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morepete

January 21st, 2015 at 10:46 PM ^

I did, too! Ben and I used to work on the Focus (school paper) together.

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Brian

January 21st, 2015 at 8:58 PM ^

Ben is one of us, FWIW. Met him a few times in NYC.

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GotBlueOnMyMind

January 21st, 2015 at 9:34 PM ^

One of us...one of us

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xxxxNateDaGreat

January 21st, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^

Gooble gobble, gooble gobble!

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Terrible Ted

January 22nd, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^

Makes it sound like we're a bunch of Freaks. Congrats to the blog, though. This place often epitomizes The Michigan Difference.

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Commie_High96

January 21st, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^

At the height of the Tressel years, Slate was also the site that linked the invention of the Sweater Vest to the late 1890 UM football team.

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White-Pants

January 21st, 2015 at 10:54 PM ^

Congratulations Brian for creating this blog which is contributing to the cutting edge of sport science along with other things related to UM sports.

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BlueCube

January 21st, 2015 at 9:02 PM ^

Congrats to those who contributed to the thread.

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Sven_Da_M

January 21st, 2015 at 9:23 PM ^

... and I think we can all figure out the real culprit in Tom Brady's deflated balls.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 21st, 2015 at 9:47 PM ^

The string of excellent publicity for the blog gets better and better every day. We are really one of the few sports blogs where the discussion on "DeflateGate" could turn into a discussion of physics really, and it is a great asset to this place.

Once again, well done, MGoBlog.

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lmgoblue1

January 21st, 2015 at 10:14 PM ^

Sorry I was a marketing major and all but how much does air weigh? Wouldn't the ball weigh the same even if it was fricking uninflated? I mean, hello. Who would say this shit let alone write it? Helium maybe but air come on. Maybe they mean to say it feels less firm but that's not what the story said.

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gbdub

January 21st, 2015 at 10:33 PM ^

You're ruining our nerd cred! Air has mass - all else being equal, a ball at higher pressure gets that way by cramming more air into the same volume, hence more mass.

That said, if the pressure changes due to temperature change without adding or removing air, then yes, there would be no change in mass.

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