Spoiler alert: You can deflate a football without cutting it open.
The New York Daily News conducted an experiment to see if it was possible to deflate a dozen footballs in less than 90 seconds, and the results were astounding.
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The Daily News brought in an expert named Gersh Kuntzman on handling footballs and gave him a bag of 12 footballs and timed how quickly he could deflate them in a bathroom.
That’s right, it only took 40 seconds for a trained hand to reduce the air pressure of a dozen footballs – just enough time for the 90-second timeline to make sense if, in fact, the alleged employee was deflating the footballs when he took them to the Patriots bathroom.
This issue won’t be settled for a while, but for now it looks like there is more than enough science to suggest that some form of foul play with the handling of the footballs could have been involved.
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