On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:46:06 -0500, micky
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:45:34 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 1/24/2015 6:56 PM, bob haller wrote:


the NFL really needs to take a stand and vacate the win...

since the patriots have now cheated twice ....


They should take a stand, but first, they have to prove it was done
intentionally and who did it


don't both teams use the same ball?

Apparently not, except when there is an interception or a fumble
recoverd by the other side.

And that's how this escapade got started. Someone from another team
intercepted a pass and thought the ball was softer than it should be and
reported it. And I think I heard that that had happened wrt the
Patriots a couple weeks earlier too.

OTOH, the suggestion today that cold weather made the pressure go down
certainly makes sense.

OT3H, how come the same guy(s) who intercepted passes and thought the
pressure was low didn't feel that way when they handled their own team
balls the same day or in weather just as cold. OT4H were these
interceptions by guys who never hold the ball on offense, and if that
were the case, how can they judge how firm they are?

OT3H2, if the cold weather makes the pressure go down enough to matter,
surely they noticed this the first year they had a standard pressure for
football games -- 50 years ago -- and either did the inflation checking
outside, or inflated to a higher pressure to give it room to go down.
And by now there would be loads written about what pressure at what
temp, every team would have rules, and it woudn't have taken the
Patriots several days to think of this as a reason.

I was amazed to hear that this week.


If one team had an advantage, would
not the other team have the same advantage?