7th grader uses science project to vindicate Brady in Deflategate

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Twelve-year-old Ben Goodell, a student at St. Pius V School in Lynn, makes sure to be clear he’s not related to Roger. That’s because Ben is no fan of the commissioner who suspended Patriots quarterback Tom Brady four games, fined the team $1 million and took away two of New England’s draft picks.

“I was kind of upset because I didn’t think it was fair for them to say that Tom Brady was going to be suspended for 4 games,” Ben told WBZ-TV.

So Ben used his school science project to right that wrong.

He got an official NFL ball, inflated it to legal size and subjected it to various conditions for two hours.

“I put it in humidity, cold, snow, wind chill and the same temperature that occurred during DeflateGate,” he explained.
A science project that claims to show weather conditions would indeed impact PSI on footballs. (WBZ-TV)

Then he took pressure readings. And guess what?

“Every single time I did this test the PSI dropped at least 2 PSI. That means it was scientifically proven that Tom Brady didn’t deflate the footballs, and it was just the weather conditions,” he says.

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