“Bill Nye the Science Guy is here to let you know that temperature change wasn’t responsible for any change in the inflation of a football during the AFC title game.”
It is amusing though that he pronounces the ball the same without measuring it after he completes his CO2/climate change rant (which he is also wrong about).
The balls lost pressure, and he can’t tell.
The temperature drop he describes would by itself bring any football startiing at 12.5 PSI to just under 11.0 PSI. Getting the weather wet for an hour or two has been experimentally shown to allow for a stretching of a new football that would drop the PSI further. There are hundreds of such posted as videos on the Internet for your review using a variety of methods...but again, you’re just trolling.
And the funniest thing about Bill Nye’s video that you linked to, is that he disbelieves the patriots claims not because he failed to measure the pressure drop, but because he can’t feel the difference in a 1.5 PSI drop.
Well, hey, statistics is a "science," too:
Deflate-gate triggers stat spat as analysts attempt to solve why Patriots don't fumble
Excerpt:
Maybe the smoking gun isn’t in a bathroom at Gillette Stadium. Maybe it’s in the laptop of a civil engineer in Washington, D.C. One of the strangest twists in the already strange saga of deflate-gate is the sudden star turn of a man who runs a gambling website when he’s not doing his day job. Warren Sharp is a 36-year-old dad who loves numbers and algorithms, and decided to apply some statistics to the Patriots when he heard about the football deflation investigation. What he found sent ripples through the sports world and got a few other statisticians pretty upset. It also may have implications beyond Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. 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>”
“Based upon the data we’ve collected and the probabilities, it definitely is extremely unlikely that their ability to hold onto the football would change so much and be as far away from the rest of the NFL,” Sharp said. “It’s extremely unlikely.”
So...2007 season is FIRST one teams supply own footballs, as lobbied for by Tom Brady.
Suddenly, their fumble rate which has been common to the rest of the league becomes...how shall I say it? Oh, deflated...
The Patriots' fumble rate improves almost 80%...
...And its kept there...
...Year in, year out...
...Doesn't matter which running backs and receivers they bring in...
...fumble rate doesn't roller-coaster...
...stays smooth as the Dead Sea on a windless day...
So...more "scientific research" needed...
Like...will the Patriots fumble more in SuperBowl now that they don't control the psi?
Since BOTH teams use the same pool of 8 footballs for punts, was the Patriot punt return and kickoff return levels 2007-2014 at around the same rate as the rest of the league? (Giving us another "happenstance hint"). Or, if the Pats were indeed so "talented" at holding onto the ball 2007-2014, that, of course, carried over to the special teams, right?
And if the NFL develops more oversight of footballs pre-game in 2015 season, will the Patriots return to 2006 fumble rates?
Of course, to Pats' fans, if that happens, that'll all just be a fluke, right...
A fluke of nature...
Except not to the Colts balls.