Posted on 01/21/2015 9:04:41 AM PST by servo1969
No FB expert here but if they inspected them at 1/2 time and they failed why wasn’t something done at that time?
Sorry, but isn’t this like the 5th thread on this subject?
If one wants to buy an American football that is made in America, then one has to pay over $85 for one. All the common folk Wilson, Rawlings, Spalding, etc. are made in China which bugs me because I like to give American footballs to visiting foreigners and I hate to see that all of them at popular prices are made in China.
Sorry, but isnt this like the 5th thread on this subject?
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At least. But the days is young still. Expect more.
Belicheat 2015
Add it to your collection along side Madden NFL
can’t they (media or nfl) at least use the correct physical units: pounds per square inch (psi) pressure. i think a 13 “pound” football would be kinda hard to chuck more than a few yards.
Go Patriots! I hope they win. There is only two teams left and out of the two I like the Patriots better. I don’t care about the under inflated footballs. The Patriots are like the Tea Party....always criticized for nothing.
You would think that when the official who hands the ball to the offense just before the play would have noticed something if the football was missing a little air.
From 2007 -
"This episode [spying on an opponent's defensive signals] represents a calculated and deliberate attempt to avoid longstanding rules designed to encourage fair play and promote honest competition on the playing field," Goodell said in a letter to the Patriots.
-- NFL.com, NFL fines Belichick, strips Patriots of draft pick
Why do you think they checked them at halftime?
Unfortunately, NFL rules, like most laws, assume that most people will be self-policing because they have common decency. The NFL is incapable of dealing with people who have no honor and cheat at every opportunity.
Where and at what temperature were they inspected prior to the game and at half time? Has anyone ever heard of NV=PRT?
The thing is, NEP are a good team and don’t need BB’s stupid cheating tricks. It embarrasses the team and fans ...
“If one wants to buy an American football that is made in America, then one has to pay over $85 for one. All the common folk Wilson, Rawlings, Spalding, etc. are made in China which bugs me because I like to give American footballs to visiting foreigners and I hate to see that all of them at popular prices are made in China.”
So what would you do?
You could add tariffs, so all the balls were expensive.
You could ban Chinese imports, so all the balls were expensive.
You could support price regulations, which would drive American manufacturers out of business, and all balls would be expensive.
You could vote to cease all redistribution of tax plunder, in which case you would be able to buy American products at low prices.
You choose: do you want welfare, or inexpensive American products; do you want food stamps, or inexpensive American products; do you want thousands of high priced bureaucratic jobs for incompetent bums, or inexpensive American products.
Tough choice, eh?
I saw a video of the Wilson factory which is the only company making footballs in the US ... when did they outsource to China?
That’s PV = nRT...
The officials replaced the balls at half time with properly inflated balls. The Patriots then scored another 4 touchdowns in the second half with properly inflated balls.
The Colts never scored in the second half.
They make expensive NFL game balls in America and for the kids on the block they have foreign operations.
They reinflated them at half time and the Patriots went on a tear, scoring 21 points in the 3rd quarter to their 17 in the first half. According to an NFL official, this morning, the only time they were not in the view of the officials is a 10 minute window while the ball boy had them before the game (10 minutes before kick off). I find it very hard to imagine it could have been done without the complicity of the official. Aside from that, they handled the balls all the first half and did not notice?
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