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Originally Posted by DrHenley

I think this is a media created tempest in a teapot. Do y'all really believe everything you hear on TV?

A few facts...

1. Brady said that he likes the balls inflated to the minimum pressure, 12.5 PSI
2. In tests, balls that were inflated to 12.5 PSI initially, tested 11 PSI after exposure to cold weather. (underpressure)
3. There are reports that the Colts balls were also tested and found to be still within limits, but there have been no official statements by the League to that effect.
4. Despite what you have read and heard, D'Qwell Jackson DID NOT suspect that the ball he intercepted and kept was underpressure - In his own words:
   • "I wanted that ball as a souvenir!"
   • "I wouldn't know how that could even be an advantage or a disadvantage."
   • "I definitely wouldn't be able to tell if one ball had less pressure than another."
   • "It wouldn't have changed the outcome of the game. They outplayed us. We didn't match their intensity. I don't feel slighted at all personally. They created turnovers, they ran the ball on us. They won that game because of their intensity -- not the pressure of a football."
   • Jackson also said that late in the first half, he noticed that the Patriots were actually using the Colts' footballs because they couldn't find a "usable ball."

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300...-less-pressure

Thanks DrHenley!