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Bill Nye Patriots balls, It looks like "Bill Nye the Science Guy" isn't buying Bill Belichick's theory of what caused the Patriot's balls to deflate during the AFC Championship game last week. "What he said didn't make sense," said Nye while he was being interviewed on Sunday morning, according to The Blaze on Jan. 25.

Belichick gave a rather lengthy explanation on Saturday as to the probable cause of the deflated balls discovered after the championship game last weekend. He defended the way his team preps the balls before they enter the field.

Belichick also shared that he has expanded his knowledge on air pressure much more over the past few days than he has in his entire lifetime while being around the inflated balls. The investigation continues into what has been dubbed "Deflategate" by the media.

After a complaint was made by a Raven's player, who thought the ball was rather soft, the preliminary investigation found that 11 of the 12 balls used by the Patriots were under-inflated, in accordance to the NFL ball regulations.

"Bill Nye the Science Guy" was on "Good Morning America" on Sunday morning and he refuted what Belichick had to say about the science behind the deflated footballs. On Saturday Belichick discussed the results of an internal study, which looked at how the footballs are prepared to the liking of Pat's quarterback, Tom Brady.

According to WTNH, New Haven News, Belichick described how the balls were made "tackier" for a better grip. During this process, which entails the rubbing of the ball, it could cause a change in air pressure inside the balls, said the Patriots' coach. Belichick's attempt at explaining this science had him dubbed "Bill Belichick the Science Guy" in the media.

This prompted "Good Morning America" to get the real "Bill Nye the Science Guy" for an interview and get his view on Belichick's scientific theory on deflated balls. Basically Nye said that rubbing the ball, which is what is done to make the balls "tackier" for "Brady's liking," would not cause the ball to lose pressure.

Nye said you would need to use an inflation needle to change the pressure inside the ball. The real "Science Guy" called out the Patriots in the video above. When it comes down to it, Belichick's rubbing the ball theory didn't hold water, or in this case...air!

Bill Nye Patriots balls, Bill Nye has the Patriots by the balls. When it comes to the whiteboard x’s and o’s, the wishbone formation, sweeps, bootlegs and slants, all hail The Hoodie. But Belichick looked completely out of his element when it came to offering an analytical diagnostic of atmospheric pressure on a pigskin.

Which by the way, is quite an accurate moniker for the modern-day football. Early balls were made of natural materials, like a (properly) inflated pig bladder stuffed inside of leather. Thus the nickname. Those were the glory days of the gridiron; warriors in leather helmets gathered to mash each other up, as long as someone remembered to bring the bladder of an even-toed ungulate. But we digress.

Writes the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 25: “New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick claimed Saturday that ‘climatic conditions’ were the likely culprit behind the reported underinflation of the team's footballs during last week's AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. Belichick said a simulation the team conducted last week found air pressure in the balls could have dropped as much as 1.5 pounds per square inch based on the cold, rainy conditions present at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 18.”

Bill Nye, the Science Guy, doesn’t buy it. The 59-year-old science teacher, mechanical engineer and television host debunked Bill’s explanation as BS. Nye said the Patriots coach’s reasoning as to why the footballs mysteriously depressurized, deflated, shrunk, whatever… made no sense.

“I’m not too worried about coach Belichick competing with me. What he said didn’t make any sense,” Nye said on “Good Morning America.”

In a press meeting today, Belichick showed he hit the Wikipedia pages hard, using words and terms like climatic conditions (or did he say climactic?) equilibrium, and pounds per square inch.

“We found that once the footballs were on the field over an extended period of time, in other words, they were adjusted to the climactic conditions…and the footballs reached an equilibrium, that they were down approximately 1.5 pounds per square inch,” Belichick explained. “When we brought the footballs back in after that process and retested them in a controlled environment we have here, then those measurements rose approximately 0.5 PSI. So the net 1.5 back down 0.5 is approximately one PSI.”

As if that wasn’t enough, Belichick explained that rubbing ones balls in a vigorous manner, umm, may cause them to alter their natural state.

“Now, we all know that air pressure is a function of the atmospheric conditions, it’s a function of that. So, if there’s activity in the ball relative to the rubbing process, I think that explains why when we gave them to the officials and the officials put it at 12.5 [PSI] if that’s in fact what they did, that once the ball reached its equilibrium state, it probably was closer to 11.5 [PSI],” the coach said.

Nye took the air out of Belichick with a balloon demo, and then pricked him with a tongue-in-cheek jab.

“Rubbing the football, I don’t think you can change the pressure. To really change the pressure you really need one of these,” Nye said, holding up a pump with pin. “The inflation needle.” And then he added for good measure: “I cannot help but say, ‘Go Seahawks!’”

Adds the Bleacher Report: “Of course, this is not the last we will hear about this story, since nothing changed as a result of the press conference. Belichick claimed innocence, which he and the Patriots have maintained all along.” So Belichick went from playing the dumb card to being the science genius. Which Bill are you siding with in this balls to the wall debate?