A moment of rebuttal for a well-presented view on DeFlateGate

Here's a view that I had considered at first - I'm aware of the laws of gas pressure, and that volume OR pressure decrease with temperature (or a combination of the two), and that probably does happen to some extent in all cold-weather games.

Here's the rebuttal:

Why were the twelve balls for the Colts ALL perfect if they had the same circumstances as the twelve deflated Patriots balls?

Why has this NEVER come up in any of the previous cold weather games, including the ones during this very playoff season in Green Bay, for example, or any of the miserable ones in December?

Why is the other circumstantial evidence so compelling?

(And here's the question I really want answered someday, if indeed it is Tom Brady behind this, as I'm about 2/3 sure of at this point...WHY? You won this game 45-7, and you actually beat them WORSE when you had the regular balls in the second half. Besides, the plan was ALWAYS going to be run it down the Colts' throats because your line is tougher than theirs anyway - your passing wasn't going to be the difference in the game. Why would a GREAT quarterback like you DO this? I've never understood why Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez, two certain Hall of Famers WITHOUT steroids and HGH, went to the cheating route when they were so good without cheating. Insecurity is always the answer I hear, and I have to believe it. I'm an extremely insecure person, and yet I've never done anything like that, and neither has 99% of folks, I think. [Maybe that's high.] I pray we're wrong about this. I fear we're not.)

Here's Peter King in today's MMQB, finishing the argument for me...

The condition of the footballs on Sunday is coming into clarity.

This is significant, because it takes weather-as-a-factor out of the possible reasons why New England’s footballs could have lost air while the balls on Indianapolis’ sidelines would have stayed fully inflated. I am told reliably that:

• The 12 footballs used in the first half for New England, and the 12 footballs used by the Colts, all left the officials’ locker room before the game at the prescribed pressure level of between 12.5 pounds per square inch and 13.5 psi.

• All 24 footballs were checked by pressure gauge at halftime. I am told either 11 or 12 of New England’s footballs (ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported it was 11, and I hear it could have been all 12) had at least two pounds less pressure in them. All 12 Indianapolis footballs were at the prescribed level.

• All 24 footballs were checked by pressure gauge after the game. All 24 checked at the correct pressure—which is one of the last pieces of the puzzle the league needed to determine with certainty that something fishy happened with the Patriots footballs, because the Colts’ balls stayed correctly inflated for the nearly four hours. There had been reports quoting atmospheric experts that cold weather could deflate footballs. But if the Patriots’ balls were all low, and the Colts’ balls all legit, that quashes that theory.

The conclusion: There is little doubt the New England footballs were tampered with by a human.