PHOENIX — The New England Patriots owner and Seattle Seahawks cornerback were trading insults while the NFL was reportedly reviewing video of a Patriots employee going into the bathroom with a bag of footballs. Just when you thought Super Bowl Media Day couldn’t get any more bizarre...Thanks to DeflateGate, though, there seems to be no limit to this theater of the absurd, which took yet another twist as the Patriots and Seahawks met a mass of reporters at the U.S. Airways Center on Tuesday. The backdrop was a report that the NFL had video of a Patriots locker room attendant carrying a bag of 24 balls into a bathroom, where he stayed for 90 seconds before the AFC Championship Game...
Only makes my NFL suggested motto more appropriate: “Our felons are better athletes than your felons.”
So, they are saying the guy adjusted his balls in the men’s room?
SO, here’s what sucks for Seattle and all the anti-Patriots folks:
You know the officials will be all over the footballs at the Superbowl like white on rice. If the Patriots still trounce the Seahawks... well... they beat you fair and square even after you made all that noise about them being cheaters. How stupid do you look now?
(For the record, I’m not really a football fan.)
I love Richard Sherman. Smart as Hell and knows how to get to people.
I will be glad when baseball season starts.
“I’m here so I don’t get fined”
Richard Sherman is actually a very bright guy, very well-spoken, a Stanford grad whose parents are both very hardworking family people (his father has driven a garbage truck for 30 years). There is a video on YouTube of Sherman taking apart Skip Bayless, very calmly and very directly. Bayless, who is happy to write books with little backup on things such as Troy Aikman being secretly gay (with no factual support for it) is basically speechless.
Kraft can deadpan all he wants, he didn’t deny the commish is still his BFF.
After his involvement on behalf of Goodell about the Ray Rice incident, people of course started questioning his definition of ‘integrity’.
At the end of the article, “.....(he did it) so patriots fans and I and my family can enjoy the game.” ...... What class! (sarcasm and speechless)
90 seconds to take 12 balls out of a bag, deflate them 2 PSI and put them back in the bag. SURE....
OK, I’m getting on in years, but it takes me at least 90 seconds to take a leak. I don’t think I could do 11 or 12 separate operations in that period of time, whatever they are. I suppose if I had a special device for inflating a given amount (not sure what that would be... maybe 3 seconds with a calibrated orifice on a needle), I could pull it off, but I’d have to hustle. Please allow time for unpacking and repacking the bag. 90 seconds?
I have always hated the Patriots, but this whole incident, and Sherman’s mouth, plus Seattle’s Big Brother garbage spying law, have made me root for them for the first time ever.
I can preview it all now...the nfl dragging said locker room attendant in for a Monday interview...with 3+ Pat lawyers in tow
This year will be the first year I am skipping the Superbowl out of choice possibly in my entire life.
I cannot stand either teams, thier coaches and many of their players.
About the only person I respect that’s playing is Russel Wilson.