Posted on 01/24/2015 4:00:59 PM PST by big'ol_freeper
In the year of Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy, they've somehow managed to trump serious cases of domestic abuse by blowing a silly, inane, moronic controversy over the inflation of game balls into a national story that gets more sublime and ridiculous by the day.
The league didn't take their time and do due diligence on what really mattered in the Ray Rice case, and delivered a hasty judgment that Commissioner Roger Goodell admitted was ill-conceived.
Now, they're taking their sweet time to decide who may have taken too much air out of the balls, a violation that is punishable by a minimum $25,000 fine. This is no more serious than hockey players playing with an illegal stick or, as we saw in 1983 with George Brett, hitting with a doctored, pine-tarred bat.
Talk about having your priorities all screwed up.
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Moron.
Has no brains.
Can't comprehend what 28-0 means.
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Moronic behavior by someone who pretends he doesn't understand what that means, makes the poster look dumber than ever.
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The full text of Glazer’s report indicates that the league’s investigation into the deflate-gate incident has focused on the attendant who allegedly took footballs from the officials’ locker room to another area on the way to the field. It’s not clear if this was an isolated incident for the AFC title game, or if this was behavior that occured habitually for all games.
Glazer writes that the NFL has interviewed the attendant and, per Glazer’s sources, possess video of the attendant’s actions. The league is still trying to determine if there was any wrongdoing that happened, but the attendant is considered to be a “strong person of interest” in the investigation.
Only morons don't understand what that means.
Do you know what it means?
Keep rationalizing. The weather could not have accounted for 2 psi, but you keep hoping against hope that cheaters are not cheaters.
Funny how a paid off ref is possible against long odds, but the prospect of the Pats cheating is unfathomable, even though they have been caught before. Those are FACTS.
All else aside, may the best team win the Super Bowl - Once my team is out of it (Go (S)Ain'ts), I usually root for the underdogs.
Your hatred has you in denial. The video at post 50 shows a drop of 1.9psi going fro 75 to 50 degrees, with a wet ball (and it was 45 degrees.) Seriously, what part of the effect of temperature on air pressure don't you understand?
The pats could have cheated. I don't doubt they did, they do have that history. But there is no PROOF, and there are numerous other explanations.
If there was proof, it would have been made public by now.
It would be interesting to have a comparison of hand sizes or gripping area-strength in order to see if there is any ‘natural’ preference for under inflated footballs.
And your man love for Brady has you in denial. What part of THE COLTS BALLS WERE NOT AFFECTED BY THE WEATHER IN ANY WAY do you not get!!!!!!! Are you really that obtuse?
Keep hoping against hope, they cheated and deep down you know they did, you just won’t admit it out of some idiotic stubbornness. I do not hate the Pats, unless they re cheaters, oh wait!
Also the air in the Pats balls would have had to be more than 40 degrees warmer than the outside. Their balls were inflated and tested in the same place as the Colts’ (whose balls were within regulation). But you keep on denying.
Were the colt balls inflated inside or outside? Do you know?
What was the initial pressure of the colt balls? Min or Max? You DON’T KNOW! So you don’t know how/if the weather affected them. So much YOU DO NOT KNOW but you speak with absolute certainty.
Even if they were the max, they were all the same! I speak with certainty because it has been acknowledged that their balls WERE NOT AFFECTED at all. Not that they were within regulation specs, but that the weather HAD NO EFFECT! In other words, the balls were the same at the beginning of the game as they were at halftime when they were checked again. So, the weather only affected the Pats balls? Ok sure, you go with that one! lol That much I know with certainty. What do you know? Nothing except to blindly defend the Pats like the homer you are.
A new light has been cast on the use of illegal footballs by the New England Patriots during the AFC Championship game and if true, suddenly Deflategate does not sounds nearly as egregious. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, 11 of the 12 balls used by the Patriots were under the allowed limit of 12.5 Pounds per Square Inch (PSI) of pressure. However, most of the balls were not nearly as deflated as many originally believed.
"As far as the 11 footballs that I am told were below the 12.5 PSI, one was about two pounds under," Rapoport said on NFL Network. "Several were about a pound under, and several more were just a tick below 12.5 PSI."
This is in stark contrast to initial reports which stated that 11 of the 12 balls "were inflated 2 pounds per square inch below what's required by NFL regulations."
Complicating matters is the admission by the NFL's vice president of officiating that the PSI of the footballs prior to the game were not recorded by the officials so there is no way to know exactly how much pressure was lost from the balls used by the Patriots or the Indianapolis Colts.
This is significant because most reports debunking the possibility that weather caused the change in pressure assumed that most of the balls had seen a 16% decrease in PSI, when that may not have been the case. Suddenly, the Patriots explanation for how the balls were deflated is at least plausible for a large number of the balls and something like a slow leak or an oversight could be used to explain the one that was two pounds under.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-england-patriots-deflategate-balls-2015-2#ixzz3QWgSHRc1
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