(I typically cringe when I hear that 'teachable moment' cliché, but it seems like it might be apt here.)

As a Patriots fan of long standing--since long before they won anything--the experience of recent days has been what you might call 'morale-deflating;' and it's awkward having to agree that what they've been saying just isn't that credible. At least in the context of what's been reported. If it turns out to be confirmed, for example, that 11 out of 12 of their footballs were deflated by about the same amount, while the Colts balls were unchanged from what they were at the start of the game (which is what's basically implied in reports I've heard--though it might simply be that they had changed some, but still met specifications), then the 'atmospheric conditions' line of reasoning becomes ludicrous. Not to mention that, temperature-wise, there have been much more severe game-time conditions...and were there a number of balls found to be underinflated in those situations? Is the phenomenon alleged by Belichick known to have occurred anywhere before, during bad-weather (or cold weather) football games? None that I'm aware of.

But might such basic questioning also apply to something of a truly serious nature? Something that resulted in upheavals in foreign and domestic policy, for example (if you see where I'm going)? Might not the contrast between the Patriots' footballs and those of their opponents (as well as those of other teams playing in similar or worse weather conditions) have a parallel in that between towers 1, 2, and 7 and all the other steel-framed skyscrapers that endured much worse fires? Does not this contrast--together with the speed and symmetry of the buildings' descents (as with the alleged uniformity in the drop in air-pressure in the Pats' footballs)--suggest some prior, conscious, deliberate 'tampering' with the buildings, just as such tampering appears to be the most sensible explanation in the case of 'deflate-gate'?

(And maybe the 'tampering' analogy could be applied to other, non-physical aspects of 9/11 as well--pretty much anything where 'coincidence theory' or 'incompetence theory' doesn't hold water. e.g., pre-9/11 terror investigations, air defenses on 9/11, etc.)

People capable of seeing the problems in the one case should also be capable of seeing them with respect to the other--if only they could be brought to shift their attention to it. If I had any experience in editing video, I'd like to do a 'mash-up' showing the attempted explanations at the Patriots' recent press conferences together with footage of officials (e.g., NIST) pushing similarly plausibility-stretching explanations for what happened on 9/11 (or of Bush stammering out a response to a 9/11 question, bad body language and all, at a press conference). Might someone with such experience be up to it? Just an idea.