It's not rocket science.
Posted on 01/20/2015 8:41:28 AM PST by Kartographer
According to New York Newsday and WCVB in Boston, Jackson noticed the ball wasn't inflated as much as usual. He told a Colts equipment manager the ball felt under-inflated and gave it to him. The equipment man told Colts coach Chuck Pagano on the sideline. That message was relayed to Colts general manager Ryan Grigson in the press box, who told NFL director of football operations Mike Kensil, Newsday and WCVB said. Kensil told the on-field officials at halftime about the balls. Someone told Bob Kravitz of WTHR in Indianapolis, because he broke the story of the Patriots possibly deflating their game footballs – which would help them throw and catch it better in the rain – and now the NFL is looking into it.
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It's not rocket science.
First Class... that’s me all the way, BluWhiz. Gnaw on it.
Hey, dirtbag, you got it right ... you're first class all the way ... with a room temperature IQ. As in Barrow, Alaska.
I thought “Deflatriots” was funny, but the “balls” joke was the killer. :’)
Yes they were - yet at the time it was treated as if the Pats had done something that no other team had ever done.
Denver illegally skirts the salary cap.... not cheaters. Indy illegally pumps up the volume.... not cheaters. Other franchises do things and get caught and fined? Not cheaters.
“Spygate” was blown way out of proportion by the media, and was all about a rookie commissioner making a name for himself by going after Kraft and Belichik.
Now this crap? The “ball boys” would have to be in on this - and the sour grapes Dolts - may well have tampered with the ball themselves while it was in their possession.
Aaron Rogers was interviewed earlier this year - and talked about his preference for an over-inflated ball. He’s not cheating though - he’s Aaron Rogers - and it’s the Packers...
Being a Red Sox and a Pats fan - I can now understand what Yankees fans must feel like....
Sounds like a bunch of nothing to me. :shrug:
Seems to me that you can see the new moral mindset were in if you cheat it isn’t cheating if you play well and the otherside doesn’t.
But that is the mindset of cheaters even if they are almost certain that they will win they can help use the ‘edge’ that cheating gives them. Like a card shark in a game with some dumb yokel, he knows going in he is going to come out ahead, but he still uses a marked deck anyway so instead of fleecing the mark for $50.00 he ‘wins’ $200. He cheated with a marked deck yes, but what does it matter wasn’t he the better card player any way?
This has become standard thinking in almost every area of life business, sports, politics.....If you cheat as long as you are slick, inventive about it it’s OK in fact many will defend and admirer you for it.
Now that Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers has admitted that he tampers with his footballs (outside of NFL spec, by his own admission), and now that Brad Johnson (QB for the Tampa Bay Bucs) has admitted to bribing NFL personnel $7,500 to fix all 100 Super Bowl game balls to his specifications (yes, Tampa won that tainted Super Bowl...) it's pretty clear that this "ball customizing" by QB's is Standard Operational Procedure.
The NFL's biggest screw-up here is having let their hatred for the Patriots cause them to open this Pandora's Box on the entire League 2 weeks before the Super Bowl.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAAAAAAAH! The douchebags. Now they can writhe in the bed they made while Bill and Tom's Exceptional Adventure reels in yet another Lombardi Trophy.
No.
This "It's only cheating if the Pat's do it" is pretty sick, and pretty obvious SOUR GRAPES BEYOTCH WHINING by a bunch of snivellers whose teams just can't stay on the field with Belicheck and Brady.
Just wait 'til you see what they do to arrogant, insulting, no-class-having, bad winner Seattle Sand Chickens.
When checked, 11 of 12 were under inflated, by the same amount.
I don’t know why everyone thinks the “sand chix” are gonna cakewalk...
Revis effectively takes away 1 receiver and the Pats secondary is certainly as good as the “legion of spume”. The chix are good at shutting down the LONG game - not the short game that Brady likes.
No blow out here - but the Pats have the advantage and win this.
Patriots.......= 37
Sand Chix..= 14
It's in writing now.
8^)
They are all inspected and signed (or marked) two hours prior. Kicking balls too.
The kicking balls are supplied by the home team for both teams.
The balls are released back to the equipment manager for each team. It means there would be plenty of time to deflate the balls.
I’ll bet they are looking at the Colt’s footballs and figuring out they were proper.
Anyone that’s played football in a cold weather venue will attest to the fact that the ball can be a rock in cold weather. This matters. A fully inflated ball is easier to fumble in cold weather. It even matters during running plays.
I believe the phrase is "if you're not cheating, you're not trying."
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