The PSI Levels Of The Footballs For The Wildcard Game In Minnesota Is Going To Be Around 9 PSI - I Wonder If Mike Kensil Is Going To Steal Them All And Tell Everybody They Are in Big Trouble?

(Yahoo) — Ideal Gas Law causes the air pressure of a football to decrease in colder weather, a physics lesson the NFL inadvertently learned/taught last year when it punished the New England Patriots after the league claimed two staffers tampered with the game balls in the AFC championship game. The franchise countered that the deflation of the balls was an act of nature, not subterfuge. You were no doubt bored with the back-and-forth a long time ago. Forget deflate-gate, Seattle is visiting Minnesota on Sunday afternoon and the weather forecast calls for temperatures to hover around zero. If so, it could rank as one of the 10 coldest games in NFL history. The wind chill is expected to hit between minus-15 and minus-20. This could deliver the mother of all psi level drops. So how low should the air pressure go Sunday in the brutal chill of Minneapolis? Try about 9.0 psi. Maybe even into the 8s. “Ignoring the wind chill (meaning the following is a conservative estimate, meaning the wind chill could make the on-field ball pressure even lower), the on-field ball pressure will be about 9 psig (assuming it was pressurized to 12.5 psig at 70F and measured on-field at 0F),” Dr. Michael Naughton, the chair of the physics department at Boston College wrote to Yahoo Sports. That’s a low-pressure ball.

I have a serious question.  Do you think the NFL knows what the Ideal Gas Law is yet?  I honestly bet they don’t.  They still haven’t figured it out.  Ted Wells and Exponent is still telling Roger Goodell that the ideal gas law is voodoo science.  The only way that footballs can lose air pressure is by Tom Brady stealing them and sticking pins in them himself.   And if Mike Kensil is in Minnesota and steals the footballs again at halftime and finds them at 9 or 10 PSI then Tom Brady is to blame and nobody else.  And Chris Mortensen and Little Bobby Kravitz will run to twitter and tell the world the Patriots cheated in the Minnesota vs. Seattle Wildcard game.  Some people will laugh, some will think it’s a joke, but Roger Goodell will hire Ted Wells to prove it happened and give Roger the exact results he wants.   And when the entire free world says Goodell is a power hungry lunatic he’ll laugh and say he can do whatever he wants because he’s god and the players union agreed to it in the collective bargaining agreement.