Intro:

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick spoke an impromptu press conference on Saturday to address the football deflation allegations against his team.

Script:

SOUNDBITE (English): Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach:

"I spent a significant amount of time this past week learning as much as I could learn, more than I could ever imagine to tell you the truth, about bladders, gauges, stitching, pressure, game-day ball preparation, rub downs and so forth."

SOUNDBITE (English): Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach:

"I believe now 100 percent that I have personally and we as an organisation have absolutely followed every rule to the letter. Now it is a feeling on behalf of everyone in the organisation, everyone that is involved in this organisation, that we need to say something."

SOUNDBITE (English): Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach:

"I've handled dozens of footballs over the past week. The texture of the footballs is very easy to identify. The pressure of the footballs is a whole different story."

SOUNDBITE (English): Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach:

"We have no way of touching the footballs other than once the officials have them, we don't touch them except for when we play with them in the game. But, it's similar to the concept of when you get into your car and the light comes on and it says low tire pressure because the car has been sitting in the driveway outside overnight and you start it up and you start driving it and the light goes off -- it's a similar concept to that. So the atmospheric conditions as well as the true equilibrium of the football is critical to the measurement."

SOUNDBITE (English): Bill Belichick, New England Patriots Head Coach:

"We had our quarterbacks look at a number of footballs and they were unable to differentiate a one-pound-per-square-inch difference in those footballs. They were unable to do it. On a two-pound differential there was some degree of differentiation, but certainly not a consistent one. Couple ones they could pick out, but they were also wrong on some of the other ones that they had. So you're welcome to do that yourself. I can tell you from all the footballs that I've handled over the last week, you can't tell the difference if there is a one pound difference or a 0.5 pound difference in any of the footballs."