The controversy surrounding under inflated footballs is raising a series of pertinent questions both inside and outside of the sports world. What do under inflated footballs mean to the sport? Is adjusting the pressure within a football considered cheating and how does it give another team an advantage?
The headline in the sports world is that the NFL determined 11 of the 12 footballs the New England Patriots used during the AFC Championship game Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts were under inflated," says Ben Shields, a lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Shields spoke with Morning Edition host Bob Seay and says, "what we don't have is the additional context such as ... how and who in the Patriots organization knew about the deflated footballs?" These are the next set of questions the NFL is looking into as part of its ongoing investigation. Stay tuned.
