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Tom Brady has NOT thrown enough footballs in his career to sense a two psi difference in inflation pressure? Anybody believe that?
May be he's always used underinflated balls.Bystander said:Tom Brady has NOT thrown enough footballs in his career to sense a two psi difference in inflation pressure? Anybody believe that?
lisab said:Does anyone know if there's a standard they use to measure football pressure? How long does it take for the footballs to condition to constant temperature? Is pigskin really used to make them, and is there a way to determine the rate pigskin leaks air, especially while it's in use? Is there an actual pigskin standard? When the pressure was measured after the game, did they do that to all the balls? Is it routine to do so? My god, am I actually thinking this much about footballs?
How Officials Check Ball PressureOne week ago it would have counted as deep football nerdery. Now, though, the procedure by which officials confirm the air pressure inside game balls ...
That's the big question that crossed my mind: equipment manager inflates balls, and they're supposedly checked; stored on sideline through game, can moisture freeze in the "valves" and slowly leak down? And, there's no provision for checking?lisab said:is there a way to determine the rate pigskin leaks air,
Considering he specified in the press conference exactly what [legal] pressure he prefers (12.5 psi), no.Bystander said:Tom Brady has NOT thrown enough footballs in his career to sense a two psi difference in inflation pressure? Anybody believe that?
Rape and spousal abuse? Unimportant. Twitter and Youtube, on the other hand, are potentially catastrophic.Tobias Funke said:The league takes this stuff seriously. It's not some minor misstep like repeatedly beating or raping people
For the NFL to lose its tax-exempt status, now that would be a true catastrophe!russ_watters said:Rape and spousal abuse? Unimportant. Twitter and Youtube, on the other hand, are potentially catastrophic.
Not A chance.russ_watters said:any less than slightly longer than 2 weeks
WHAT? No. No. Uh-uh. No. Can't be. Is it?Dotini said:tax-exempt status
lisab said:Does anyone know if there's a standard they use to measure football pressure? How long does it take for the footballs to condition to constant temperature? Is pigskin really used to make them, and is there a way to determine the rate pigskin leaks air, especially while it's in use? Is there an actual pigskin standard? When the pressure was measured after the game, did they do that to all the balls? Is it routine to do so? My god, am I actually thinking this much about footballs?
Maybe it was an honest mistake - like checking the pressure while they were in a 200 degree oven.Bystander said:Tom Brady has NOT thrown enough footballs in his career to sense a two psi difference in inflation pressure? Anybody believe that?
[PLAIN]http://espn.go.com/nfl/story...xempt-status-challenged-us-senator-tom-coburn[/PLAIN]Bystander said:WHAT? No. No. Uh-uh. No. Can't be. Is it?
SteamKing said:I think the more interesting question here is, if deflated balls supposedly are more beneficial to the team on offense, how did the Patriots make sure the balls were deflated when they had the ball, but when the ball was in the Colts' control, it was
1. magically re-inflated to proper pressure, or
2. the Colts offense was too inept to take advantage of a deflated ball to boost their offense like the Patriots allegedly did.
What did Dreamboat know and when did he know it? Is there any possibility that Gisele is behind this?
lisab said:Does anyone know if there's a standard they use to measure football pressure? How long does it take for the footballs to condition to constant temperature? Is pigskin really used to make them, and is there a way to determine the rate pigskin leaks air, especially while it's in use? Is there an actual pigskin standard? When the pressure was measured after the game, did they do that to all the balls? Is it routine to do so? My god, am I actually thinking this much about footballs?
gmax137 said:Each team uses its own set when they are playing offense.
Astronuc said:May be he's always used underinflated balls.
Sharp’s idea was to look at fumbles. That led him to a more refined topic: how well the Patriots held onto the ball both before and after the 2006 season, which happened to be the year Brady and Peyton Manning pushed for a rule change which allowed each team to provide their own footballs for games.
“Something significant changed from 2006 to 2007 that allowed them to retain the football,” Sharp said by phone Tuesday, “and that continues today.”
I used to play Magic the Gathering, which is a card game. You're allowed to have as many cards in your deck as you want, but the minimum is 60, and that's the amount me and my friends always played with. Strategically, you want as few cards as possible so the card combinations you have in the deck are most likely to come up.Bystander said:Tom Brady has NOT thrown enough footballs in his career to sense a two psi difference in inflation pressure? Anybody believe that?
Or the referee room where the air pressure is checked has low air pressure. That 12.5 to 13.5 psi is a relative air pressure. The air pressure in the ball is 12.5 to 13.5 psi greater than the external air pressure.Borg said:Maybe it was an honest mistake - like checking the pressure while they were in a 200 degree oven.
gmax137 said:Each team uses its own set when they are playing offense.
This rule changed in 2006 to allow each team to use their own game balls when on offense. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, among other quarterbacks, lobbied pretty hard and successfully for this rule change.StatGuy2000 said:I am not an American football fan and thus do not really follow the game at all, but this statement above is astounding to me. Up until this point, I have always thought that the individual stadium or the NFL itself would provide standardized balls in all games, so that every team will use the same ball, as I believe is the case in every other sport where a ball is involved (e.g. soccer, lacrosse, basketball, baseball). However, correct me if I'm mistaken about this.
(May 9, 2015) – According to the New York Daily News, an announcement with details regarding Tom Brady’s suspension is expected next week.
The New York Daily News reports that it’s no longer a matter of “if” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will suspend Brady, but it’s a matter of “how long” he will suspend him.
A four-games suspension?Vanadium 50 said:Probably suspend him until the start of the season.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25177527/report-tom-brady-could-be-suspended-for-up-to-one-year"Everything is being studied. Everything is being considered," an NFL source told the Herald.
Now, that doesn't mean that Brady will be suspended for the year, but it does mean that the NFL is at least considering it. Brady's punishment could end up being a shorter suspension, but the source told the Herald not to dismiss the possibility of a year-long suspension.
The National Football League suspended New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for four regular season games without pay "for conduct detrimental to the integrity of the NFL," the league announced Monday afternoon.
The league also announced that the team—which won the Stupor Bowl earlier this year—would be fined $1 million and forced to forfeit its first-round pick in the 2016 draft and its fourth-round selection in the 2017 draft.
nsaspook said:http://www.cnbc.com/id/102650340
The thing I don't like is that regular two employees of the team were suspended without pay for doing something they never would have done without exact orders from the QB and if they didn't do as ordered might have been risking their jobs. Brady has plenty of funds to handle his wait but I'm pretty sure the equipment guys don't.
The Monday release said that Patriots owner Robert Kraft told NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell last week that two team employees had been indefinitely suspended without pay. The league said neither man could be reinstated without permission.