Seahawks lead league in PED suspensions under Pete Carroll

ESPN ^ | 1/24/14 | espn

[edzo4]

The Seattle Seahawks lead the NFL in suspensions for performance-enhancing drugs since Pete Carroll became coach in 2010, research by ESPN Stats & Information shows.

[edzo4]

I guess overinflated players aren't as big a scandal as an under inflated ball.

[over3Owithabrain]

I guess overinflated players aren't as big a scandal as an under inflated ball.

Well apparently they are since suspensions were given.

Nice try with moral equivalence though.

Patriots are cheaters regardless of what anyone else does. Have been for years.

[edzo4]

No proof they cheated anyone with a fourth grade education knows that the psi will decrease in cold weather. If the balls were properly inflated and measured per the rules of the NFL and then decreased in pressure from the weather that is not cheating.

[SaintDismas]

The games are fixed. Perhaps not in WWF sense but close

[over3Owithabrain]

No proof they cheated anyone with a fourth grade education knows that the psi will decrease in cold weather. If the balls were properly inflated and measured per the rules of the NFL and then decreased in pressure from the weather that is not cheating.

LOL My fourth grade teacher just told me NONE of the Colts balls deflated in the bonechilling 45 degree weather. But 11 of the 12 Patriots balls did? And when the Patriots balls were inflated to legal levels at halftime they did not magically deflate again in the bonechilling 40 degree cold of the second half.

[SamAdams76]

You write pretty well for a fourth grader!

[Baynative]

Absolutely bizarre conversation:

The other day I happened to be driving during the afternoon and heard some of the Hannity radio show which I seldom do because of work.

The segment I caught was about the football flap and his guests were a sports guy and that liberal lip flapper Tamara Holder, who was going on and on about the severe penalties that should be thrown at the Pats.

She spoke emphatically about integrity, rules and the moral need for observing them to make things fair. The irony of hearing an Obama spinner go on and on like that defies words.

I only heard about 15 minutes and wonder if Hannity every commented on her hypocrisy.

[over3Owithabrain]

haha but I’m not smarter than a 5th grader...

[nascarnation]

I think the explanation is most of the players in the NFL couldn't make 20% of their NFL salary in any other job. So the pressure to perform is tremendous. Other than the core of superstars, teams are always looking to replace their current players.

This book is very informative because it's written by a guy who was a "marginal" player for many years in the league bouncing from team to team.

[edzo4]

And in what story was it reported what the starting and ending psi of the colts balls were colts balls could have started and 13.5 psi and ended at 12.5. All these patriots haters are starting to sound like the Ferguson looters you know they guilty why wait for the facts.

[airborne]

I guess we will have to wait until after the Souper Bowel to find out what punishment will be handed down By the Commish.

With retired players coming out and telling stories of past cheating and it being clear to all now that the NFL is moving closer and closer to the WWE, I've lost interest in football.

I wonder if it wasn't for Fantasy Football Leagues if football viewing would be on the down-slide. Probably not.

But it's pretty obvious it isn't. In fact, fans don't care what rules players, teams or the NFL Commissioner himself breaks. As long as it's the other guy's team getting roasted, all the more exciting!.

They park their ever growing lard butts in front of the boob tube RELIGOUSLY every Sunday (or Thursday or Saturday).

On a brighter note - I do get out and do more on weekends now that it's not wasted on staring at the brain-drain box!

[Berlin_Freeper]

If this were the New England Patriots, you would have fanatical crazy people denying it

[over3Owithabrain]

I think in sports people lose objectivity to a greater extent than politics or anything else.. For instance there were so many law-and-order conservatives who could never accept that Lance Armstrong was lying. I mean they would yell and scream at you despite the ever-growing evidence. Everyone else was lying about poor Lance. It was France's fault, etc etc.

When he finally admitted what was obvious after years of denial, not a peep from all the blind loyalists.

Sports is an escape where even grown men want to hang on the childish fantasies of the perfect role model.

[llevrok]

Obvious.

The lEast Coast biased sports media, with an old, old story, trying to protect their “home town” team by diverting the topic.

Go ‘Hawks !

[edzo4]

So if the under inflated ball is advantage how to you explain the even bigger ass whooping the colts got in the second half?

[Rebelbase]

I have the same problem when it’s cold out.

[over3Owithabrain]

And in what story was it reported what the starting and ending psi of the colts balls were colts balls could have started and 13.5 psi and ended at 12.5. All these patriots haters are starting to sound like the Ferguson looters you know they guilty why wait for the facts.

Bzzzt! Wrong again. The Patriots balls were 2 psi below the legal minimum. Even in your hopeful scenario if the Colts balls were at the highest allowed (13.5) and they dropped 2 psi in the bonechilling 45 degree arctic cold like the Patriots balls supposedly magically did, they would have tested illegal also at the half.

And really, a Ferguson looter reference? Wow. Just sad.

[SamAdams76]

Mark my words. Next week's Super Bowl will be the highest rated TV program in history.

All this "controversy" is fueling intense interest in the outcome of game from people the New England and Pacific Northwest.

There will probably be 150 million people in the United States watching this game and most of them will be hoping to see Bill Belichick and Tom Brady drawn and quartered.

Many pompous types are saying this is an embarrassment for the NFL but in reality the NFL execs in Manhattan are loving every minute of this and counting all the additional revenue dollars that are about to flow in. What was going to be a hum-drum Super Bowl game in two relatively minor markets is now going to be a national phenomenon.

[CityCenter]

Yup.

[jettester]

Confucius says: Too much “grow big juice” can cause deflated balls!