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To: rlmorel

I did watch the games. I just rooted against the Patriots. Generally, I would have rather watched another game. However, I watched enough Patriot games to know how their fans behave at games. They boo heavily when they are not winning.

I believe he did cheat, we will never agree on that.

I didn’t mean that you were illiterate or cannot read. However, I find it amusing that so many people wasted their time reading the Wells Report instead many many better books.

About his pay being docked. If he was innocent, I would care. However, I find it hard to believe that he is. The NFL has been playing for about 100 years, and suddenly this is a problem. Give me a break.


59 posted on 07/15/2016 4:20:01 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: castlegreyskull

It was a vendetta, nothing else. Anyone who has looked at the facts/circumstances and the conduct of league officials has readily agreed the entire thing was cooked up.

As for reading, I didn’t need to read the Wells Report, I read the summaries of the report and the interviews, but the bottom line is, the basic premise the balls were deflated is flawed. I no more needed to read the details past that, any more than one needs to read the entire “work” of Marx or the economic viewpoints of socialists like Bernie Sanders to know the foundation is fundamentally flawed, so nothing built on top of it is valid.


63 posted on 07/15/2016 7:10:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: castlegreyskull
The NFL has been playing for about 100 years and now suddenly this is a problem. Give me a break. ----- Your comment is quite ironic. Balls have been well out of specs at least since there were indoor equipment rooms. Here's what you'd expect if you knew how footballs work, based on the cited 12.5 PSI starting point. Note that after early November footballs were almost never within specs for outdoor games. The NFL, however, as they admitted, were completely unaware of this very obvious point. 3. So-Called “Deflated” Footballs Are Common In NFL Games Here, the group noted that the NFL has admitted to now understanding the Ideal Gas Law. The group then looked at the temperature for 10,000 NFL games dating back to 1960 and determined that if footballs were inflated in a 70-degree room: –Footballs inflated to 12.5 PSI before the game would have dropped below the NFL’s allowable limit in approximately 82 percent of every NFL game since 1960.
71 posted on 07/15/2016 10:40:28 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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