Vincent Says NFL Didn’t Focus On PSI With ‘Spot Checks’

On Thursday in March of 2016, in Month 15 of an all-out war waged over allegedly underinflated footballs an NFL executive has claimed that the league didn’t even check for air pressure in footballs during the 2015 season.

There was no violation of game balls being in the officials locker room, being brought to the field, back to the locker rooms at halftime, and then the balls being brought back to the locker room post game.

Of course, every scientist who was not receiving a paycheck from the NFL has noted in the past 15 months that science dictates that footballs would lose air pressure when taken from a warm environment into a cold environment.

In fact, even the NFL seemed to acknowledge this when ESPN reported prior to a playoff game in frigid Minneapolis that the footballs would be switched at halftime to avoid playing with footballs with low air pressure.

And more than likely, when the NFL tested the PSI of footballs at “random” games throughout the year, the league found that gasp science actually exists.

Now, only violations of the pregame protocol were being checked in 2015, and unsurprisingly, no ball boys went gallivanting around stadiums this year after seeing World War III play out between the NFL and the Patriots.

And, just as has been the case all along, Vincent and the NFL made no note of the NFL actually violating protocol themselves.

You may remember that Scott Zolak reported that the officials for the Chiefs-Patriots playoff game forgot their air pressure gauges AND THE KICKING BALLS FOR THE GAME back in their hotel room in Boston.

Kessler ran mental laps around Vincent, getting the executive in charge of “integrity of the game” to admit that there was literally no basis of knowledge on which the NFL could have leaned to conclude that the Patriots had illicitly deflated footballs.