If you’re upset that the NFL suddenly cares about the PSI of footballs, then you can at least take solace in the fact that it’ll be sharing the data it collects this season.
The league will randomly measure football PSI levels during pregame and halftime, but NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Friday that “A determination on how (the data) will be shared has not been made yet,” per CSNNE’s Tom Curran. However, the fact that the NFL plans to release information at all is a plus.
As Curran noted, collecting PSI data could greatly benefit the New England Patriots, as the NFL investigated Deflategate without having any previous information on football inflation and how PSI changes during a game.
And, if the league measures the footballs during cold-weather games and finds the footballs the Patriots used in the 2014 AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts could have deflated due to weather, it will have a lot of people wondering why the league spent millions to investigate.
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