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.
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Your failure to comprehend is disappointing.
Some background.
Mega Ditto!
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.
Just so you know the above statement is utterly false. The do get to change the balls for their possession for two reasons, scruff them up (so not slick) and to inflate / deflate within limits.
Aaron Rogers stated that he likes to an over-inflated ball and his team over inflates to the limit.
In Super Bowl XXVII, Bucs Quarterback Johnson admitted he paid NFL equipment officials $7,500 to deflate the game’s balls to his liking.
It is all to easy to cheat and NE did.
Wow. You mangled pretty much every part of that.
Even the 2002 Bucks part.
I just wish that the media put this much effort into what happens when democraps win. A game that has no bearing on my life or the rule and law. Hmmm
A billion people will watch the cheaters cheat in the superbowl.
They can be fined and lose draft picks, as they did in Spygate.
Karma for the way they stole the team.
Both teams did NOT play with the same ball. The offensive team provides the balls, so when the Patriots are on offense, they use balls provided by the Patriots. When the Colts were on offense, the balls were those provided by the Colts. (So when the announcer says “it’s the Patriots’ ball”, it’s quite literally true.)
Each team gets 12 balls and there are 12 backups, plus a few balls for kicking situations.
The deflation was first noticed when a Colts’ LB intercepted one of The Great Brady’s passes and noticed how soft the ball was.
I have no opinion of Pete Carroll, but I loathe Richard Sherman.
Still, it would be impossible to root for Belicheat.
Well, we now know that the deflated balls were only used in the first half, when NE played their poorest. NE went wild in the second half when they played with properly inflated balls. Conclusion: NE is a much, much better team than Indianapolis. Didn’t NE beat the Colts badly earlier in the season - I think it was a blowout.
“Well, we now know that the deflated balls were only used in the first half, when NE played their poorest.”
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That settles it as far as I’m concerned.
This entire issue has been “over inflated” IMHO.
The discussion is endless and solves nothing.
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