The NFL is continuing their investigation of #DeflateGate and apparently have a break in the case. The first tangible evidence other than footballs being underinflated emerged Monday, when Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reported that a Patriots employee took a bag of footballs that had been inspected and approved by officials into a separate area. That individual has become, per Glazer’s report, a “serious person of interest” as to the question of how the footballs came to be underinflated.
via ProFootballTalk:
Now it’s confirmed that there’s video of the Patriots employee taking the bag of footballs into a bathroom for 90 seconds. So can 12 (or in this case 11) footballs be deflated in that amount of time? One league source with extensive knowledge and experience in the NFL believes that 90 seconds provides enough time to do it — especially if the type of bag allowed the valves to be accessed without individually removing them.
The source called it as “easy” thing to do. “Needle in each ball for a couple of seconds,” the source said.
If the employee had been doing this for quite some time and gained extensive experience then maybe yes he could do this very quickly.
Sidenote: I think we all predicted a lowly employee would take the fall for this. Either way if it’s concluded that he did do it, of course it wasn’t on his own accord, he was instructed to do so.
