Is It Possible The Weather Or Temp At The Game Had Something To Do With The Inflation Of The Balls?.

[global1]

Like automobile tires - in cold weather they under inflate and in warm weather they over inflate. Is it possible the same thing happened to the footballs.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. It was around 45 degrees,

so I'd doubt it.

What happens when it's below zero in Green Bay? Do the balls flatten like pancakes?

[WinkyDink]

2. Physics would demand consistency, no?

[on point]

3. So weather conditions were different on the other side of the field???

[WinkyDink]

13. I'm responding to the OP's query about weather. What is your point---that each side had

different weather, or that I'm arguing such (which I clearly am not)?

[global1]

7. Look - I Learned Something Today - That Each Team Plays With Their Own Footballs...

I'm thinking that there is something flawed with that. It seems to me that the NFL (the league) should be in charge of the footballs and one set of footballs should be used for the game. Both teams playing off of this same set of footballs seems to (no pun intended) even the playing field. No advantage to either team. You play with the ball that is on the field at the time and that's that.

How it came to be that the teams can use their own footballs and condition them before the game - seems flawed to me.

Current conditions provide a loophole for teams to take advantage of. It was an accident waiting to happen.

[WinkyDink]

14. I know that. I'm pointing out that the weather didn't do it.

[Whiskeytide]

18. The home team use to...

...provide all the balls. In the mid 2000s a coalition of NFL QBs petitioned the league to let each team supply their own. It was passed. That coalition was supposedly led by Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.

[Major Nikon]

12. Each team could have inflated their own at different temps

But I'm not sure reasonable temperatures would have affected them at the observed pressures.

[WinkyDink]

15. I'm responding to the OP's query about the weather, a natural phenomenon.

[MohRokTah]

4. 11 of 12 balls on the Patriots side were at 10.5 PSI

12 of 12 balls on the Colts side were at 13 PSI.

If weather was a factor, all balls should have been affected.

And then there's the fact that the NFL ruled out weather as a factor very early on.

[VScott]

5. Yeah... science

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[onecaliberal]

6. If so why weren't the Colts footballs affected?

[deaniac21]

8. Colts QB throws the ball

with fewer revolutions on the spiral than Brady.

[onecaliberal]

10. That has zero to do with the cold affecting the ball pressure.

[deaniac21]

24. More revolutions heats the air inside the ball

and I can't believe anyone would think my post was serious.

[moondust]

9. Are all the balls made of the exact same materials?

Some materials could conceivably hold air better than other materials in changing temps.

I personally think the NFL is just asking for mischief by not supplying all the game balls and a couple of guys to maintain the balls under supervision of the refs.

[Takket]

11. The temp could cause about 1/2 psi drop

Not enough to explain the actual readings.

[chemenger]

19. A quick calculation using the Ideal Gas Law ...

assuming the football's volume is constant and that it is filled to a pressure of 12.5 psi at room temperature (70 degrees F) shows that the ball's pressure drops to 10.5 psi (it loses about 2 psi) when the outdoor temperature drops to about 31 degrees F.

[Orrex]

16. In similar news, I heard that the Bruins are suspected of deflating their pucks.

[madokie]

17. Friday morning

I went out and checked the air pressure in the left front tire on my pick'mup truck. It was 30 degrees out and the pressure was 33.75 PSI, later that day around 5 pm I checked the same tire with the same gauge and the pressure was 38.25 PSI. the temperature out was 58 degrees but had gotten up to 60 earlier. Mind you this is a much larger volume than a football has but nevertheless there was a 4 plus PSI difference between the pressure at the low temperature of the morning to the high temperature of the afternoon. I haven't done any research or experiments to see if volume has anything to do with this, I'm just putting this out there of what I found.

[sorefeet]

20. Maybe the fucking gauge was

faulty????? Do they calibrate them before every game???? Maybe one gauge for both teams would be an insurance policy. I don't really give a shit, I can't stand football.

[randome]

21. Nope. It was this guy.

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[Glassunion]

22. Why don't they make it a rule to inflate them with nitrogen?

The temps would have far less of an impact on the expansion or contraction of the balls.

[bemildred]

23. Quite.

There is a rather simple formula for it, the gas law:

Pressure == volume / temperature