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Posted on 01/20/2015 8:48:42 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
BOSTON - The NFL confirmed multiple footballs used in the AFC Championship were under-inflated, ESPN reported late Tuesday evening.
Sports Center tweeted just after 11 p.m. that the New England Patriots let air out of 11 of 12 game balls on Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
In other words the Patriots can’t win without cheating.
Just because you cheated before an outcome you could have won, does not mean you did not cheat.
Second even in blowouts there is a time when the losing team’s spirit is broken. Going in with added confidence (Brady likes deflated balls) that you have an advantage in lousy weather helped them. Knowing they had an unfair advantage helped them. NE went into the game knowing they had unfair advantage.
Too late to replay. New England should forfeit.
What other things are the Patriots doing to cheat?
Yes.
the owner needs to be fined.
Let the Obamabot Kraft pay a huge fine.
The evil coach barred from the NFL.
Enough !
No they don’t use the same ball.
Each team uses its own ball.
Your Wrong.
Each team has its own game ball.
Only losing 3? I think Brady will lose more superbowls before it is over, but that is just me. If the colts are the second best team in the afc, the pats could visit the bowl a couple more times in brady's remaining years. And this is coming from a long time pats fan that pretty much gave up on football a little over 10 years ago - when I felt it became too much like pro wresting. Gave up on the NBA about a dozen years before that...
That said, I think the outcome of this whole thing will be blamed on a defective pressure guage that was used by the officials when checking the pressure of the patriots 12 footballs. No fine for the Pats, and no rest for their detractors.
wow.
So much silliness on ths thread. It’s like reading Huffingtom Post comment threads.
...and unless they know who “deflated” the balls - and that it was a “who”, and that that who did it after the officials checked - even the headline is wrong.
You’re wrong. This is not a court of law with scummy lawyers involved. The defensive player knew within one second the ball was deflated. It was no secret to any NE Offensive player. They cheated with the confidence. Their quarterback, center and receivers knew they had an unfair advantage in the rainy, windy weather. Brady bragged about liking under-inflated balls giving him a better grip in the rain. The receivers liked it because it made the catches easier.
It is beyond a reasonable doubt the players knew they were cheating and rejoiced in their lack of honor. Because there is no honor among thieves/cheaters.
The Patriots Cheat. Dog Bites Man. Sun rises in East.
Why is this a story?
Anything they can.
It's what they do.
I guess the lack of defense had nothing to do with getting trounced by 38 points.
This reminds me of Super Bowl XLII, where the Giants beat the as-yet undefeated Patriots.
Everybody in the country who was not from New England was rooting for the Giants in that game. Nobody wanted to hear those jackanapes boasting about an undefeated season until the end of time.
It will be the same this time. Everybody in the country will be pleased as punch when Seattle grinds the cheating Patriots into the carpet in a couple of weeks.
Roger, that!...................
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The advantage it gives him is because he likes it that way. That’s it.
Just this year, Aaron Rogers stated in an interview that he likes the ball harder than the guideline, and made comments about getting balls through that were overinflated.
That’s without going to the actually notable thing that the Vikings were caught on film doing, which was putting the balls in front of a forced air heater DURING a cold weather game - they got a reminder note not to do that.
The way this works, is that the NFL allows teams to rough up, dirty, and work playing balls for months beforehand to get the balls the way they like them. The team then picks a minimum of 12 balls to submit to officials 2h 15m before the game, at which point the officials check them to make sure they are within specs. Any that aren’t get handed back to be adjusted until they are, and then rechecked. Once cleared as good enough, the balls are kept by the officials until just prior to the game start, when they turn them over to the ball boy. Then, every play, the officials set the ball, and cycle through the supply as needed depending on a variety of factors including just how long it would take to chase down and spot the previous ball, or if the ball becomes overly wet/waterlogged (any change in volume changes pressure), and whether there are still more balls available. Occasionally, they run out of balls.
The team could supply all their balls at 5 PSI, and it wouldn’t be a violation of any rules to do so...they’d just annoy the officials checking them - to the extent that they really bother about a pound of pressure (with a little more than another PSI being from temp differences).
...or are you asserting that the Pats had the ball boys leak air out of all of the balls out there in front of the TV cameras, and we somehow haven’t seen the video being played ad nauseum?
It’s hysterical silliness.
Yea, NE did not do anything. It just so happens that 11 of the 12 were under-inflated. None of the Colts balls were. The Colt defensive player that intercepted the ball knew immediately the ball he caught was under-inflated. Out of the 36 balls available only the 11 of the 12 that NE offense played with were under-inflated.
To deny that NE had nothing to do with it is hysterical silliness.
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