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#DeflateGate Challenge Tests If People Can Tell Which Football Weighs More

Here, weigh these balls.

Sorry, Super Bowl XLIX fans, "Deflate-Gate" isn’t going anywhere.

With exactly a week to go before the National Football League’s biggest game of the year between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, the scandal about Tom Brady’s balls just continues to gain steam.

So what’s all the fuss about?

To find out, Fatawesome inflated two footballs with different air pressure levels—one with 10.5 and the other with 12.5—to see if people on the street could tell the difference.

The results, of course, are just as funny as you’d expect.

“I don’t feel any difference,” said one guy, before getting the “X” buzzer to denote he’s wrong.

Surprisingly, there were more people that said there was no difference in the balls than those that picked up on it.

Does this prove that head coach Bill Belichick’s “scientific” explanation that the balls during the AFC Championship Game were under-inflated because of “atmospheric conditions” was correct?

Well, no.

For the real answer, consider that Bill Nye “The Science Guy” thinks the team’s rationalization that it acted in accordance with the NFL’s guidelines falls flat.

“What he said didn’t make any sense,” Nye told “Good Morning America.” “Rubbing the football I don’t think you can change the pressure. To really change the pressure, you need the inflation needle.”

For what it’s worth, though, it should be noted that Nye's objectivity may be called into question by Patriots fans because he's a Seahawks fan.

“Go Seahawks!” he said.

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