NFL Finds Patriots Used Deflated Balls In First Half, Then Reinflated Them

[Little Star]

The National Football League on Friday said that a preliminary investigation found that the New England Patriots used under-inflated footballs during the first half of their AFC Championship victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.

“While the evidence thus far supports the conclusion that footballs that were under-inflated were used by the Patriots in the first half, the footballs were properly inflated for the second half and confirmed at the conclusion of the game to have remained properly inflated,” the league said in a news release, its first on deflate-gate.

The NFL also said the investigation is being led by NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Pash and attorney Ted Wells of the law firm of Paul Weiss. Wells was brought on to offer an independent perspective, according to the release.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/nfl-finds-patriots-used-deflated-balls-in-first-half-then-re#.gsNABX0G2

[global1]

1. Somebody On The Pats Knows What Happened Here....

and how can the NFL know that the first half they were under-inflated without correcting that when if was discovered?

Something is not making sense here. How could the NFL know undrer-inflated in the first half and properly inflated in the second?

Did they test them both halfs?

[Little Star]

2. Good question.

[louis-t]

3. And if they tested after the first half

and informed the team, why are they surprised that they were inflated properly in the second half. Or did they not inform the team that the balls were under-inflated?

[underpants]

4. The officials oversaw the reinflation at halftime

[global1]

5. Did The Pats Coach & Brady Both Say They Didn't Know Anything About The Deflation Issue....

in their press conferences? Didn't Brady say he was surprised about the issue when he appeared on some radio show on Monday following the game and that is why he made light of it?

If the officials oversaw this re-inflation - wouldn't they have informed both teams of this when it was going on? Why the surprise?

Something is very fishy here.

[underpants]

6. Correction - this thread says that both teams were playing with the Colts balls in the second half

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=996281