Point being, the difference is negligible.
Just because the difference in weight is negligible does not mean that the difference in the overall effect is negligible. Of course, you damn well know that your logic is bullshit.
That is not why the Pats win games. Perhaps this is some preference of Tom Brady's, but obviously it doesn't REALLY make a difference.
If it makes no difference, then why do it? The fact that it was done is itself evidence of the fact that it can effect the results.
The fact that it is a preference of Brady's is, in and of itself, a change that creates an advantage. Why not just use a smaller ball? Why not use larger footballs for teams that want to? Why not make the field 100 meters? This is a game that will award or rescind touchdowns and first downs based on half an inch. The league regulates footballs, and the Patriots willfully violated those rules with the intent of gaining an advantage.
Your entire position on this seems to be based on the batshit stupid idea that cheating doesn't matter if you win in the end. You're pathetic.
For the same reasons that Aaron Rodgers prefers an overinflated ball, because it probably really means nothing and is just some QB preference that does NOT affect the outcome of games. You are acting as if they committed a MURDER or something. Lighten up. It was AT MOST underinflated equal to the weight of a PIECE OF PAPER.
What's easier to catch, a nerf football or a properly inflated regulation NFL football? What do you think would be easier to carry without fumbling? Yes there is a vast difference between the two but it is used to illustrate the effect of a "softer" ball.
They have a rule for a reason.
Check it out, haters!
How serious is deflate-gate Yahoo Sports does its own ball-deflating test Shutdown Corner - Yahoo Sports
Weight: Negligible
A football weighs 14.5 ounces, discounting air. At 13 psi, the air inside the ball weighs about one-third of an ounce, or about the weight of two sheets of paper. At 11 psi, the air weighs about one-fourth of an ounce.
Verdict: If you can tell the difference between one-third and one-fourth of an ounce of air inside a one-pound football, you are lying.
Appearance: Also negligible
It's a football. It looks exactly the same at 13 or 11 psi. Take two pounds out of a regulation-inflated ball and it doesn't suddenly become a Salvador Dali-esque melting chunk of leather.
What happens to a football when you let the air out? It becomes non-regulation NFL football that's what.
I have a solution, fine Brady, Billycheck (sp) and the Partiots then change the rule to allow the team any pressure they want.
Maybe a deflated ball also helped Blount hold onto it.
No, I don't think they should be able to do that either. However, I think this hoopla over 1 or 2 PSI is a bit over the top. This is more a "bending of rules" than cheating, IMO. Lol.
The rules are clear it isn't bending them it is breaking them. The ref checked the balls before the game and in between that and the start of the game they were deflated below NFL rules, that is not bending the rules it is breaking the rules. If the Pats are so damn good then why do they have to bend the rules and sometimes outright break them? There BS substitution game may have been a factor in beating the Ravens. In that case they were bending the rules.
"BS substitution game"? LOL Bottom line is that the Patriots coaching staff was smarter than the Raven's coaching staff. They threw a new wrinkle at the Ravens and the Raven's didn't respond well to it. Their players were covering Patriots players that were ineligible and leaving the eligible ones uncovered. They tried the same thing against the Colts and the Colts were ready for it and it didn't work. It's the same thing that took place when the Dolphins ran the Wildcat offense for the first time against the Patriots years ago and spanked an obviously better opponent. You're the kind of whiner who hates it when your team loses because they get out smarted on the football field...hence the whines about the Raven's game.
Actually, it did work against the Colts, they just applied it differently. It was pretty brilliant, actually. That's how they set up the Solder TD. Fleming reported as eligible all game but was never targeted, and they suddenly reported Solder as eligible and Fleming as ineligible. The Colts were conditioned to keep an eye on Fleming and weren't prepared for Solder.