I have a hard time getting excited over so-called Inflategate. Football is after all just another war game. It seems to me that the whole furor about Inflategate is a canard because both sides played with the same footballs didn't they? But wait wait, NO, it turns out that the offenses of the Patriots and their opponents PLAYED WITH DIFFERENT FOOTBALLS! Incredible. a system made for corruption. On the other hand, the Patriots played with properly inflated footballs in the second half and scored 35 points. Throw out the first half if you want, the Patriots still won by a good margin. After all, the Patriots even scored more points on rushing than the total score of the Colts, including three in the first half when the Colts could manage only one touchdown.
Of course it is legal for the two sides to roughen the new footballs their offense is going to play with. I don't know how much difference it may make, but the two quarterbacks might like the ball roughened in different ways and that is legal. Perhaps that is the reason for the two offenses playing with different footballs?
Can anyone really get excited over Inflategate? Lets go on to more important things, for Heaven's Sake.
About Me
- Everett Estes Ford
- Sandhills Area, NC, United States
- Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, the author is a published poet and author of the monograph "Lead Isotopes." He received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1960 and a D.Sci. (Honorus causa) from the University of Missouri in 1989. As a scientist, he published more than 100 technical papers in the areas of isotope geology, mineral resources, and environmental concerns. He was involved in the Apollo Program and post Apollo Program in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the National Acid Precipitation Program with the National Park Service in the 1980s. He was the first Western scientist to give the Vernadsky Memorial Lecture in Moscow during detente in 1976. He worked for 34 years for the U.S. Geological Survey in a variety of research and administrative positions, including tours as Chief of the Branch of Isotope Geology and as the Assistant Director of Research. He was president of the Geochemical Society, and, as an amateur tennis player, he served as President of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Golden Racquets Tennis Club for two years.
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