Maybe just because it is BS, Patriots can win throwing wet sponges. Other teams need to man up and play harder. (I am not a football fan, much less Patriot fan, just call it like I see it)
Who cares?
The Noodles For Lunch League has yumped da shark.
Can I interest ya in some unused tickets?
Why would the Office-of-Commissioner want to denigrate the current league champion regarding their “march” to the Finals?
Especially when Pete Carroll made a stupid call at the goal-line in an effort make HIS quarterback MVP. Had they called a running play, RB Marshawn Lynch would have been MVP, running away.
Carroll couldn’t have that happen to HIM. Is Goodell showing bias in punishing a past opponent team (Jets v Pats), protecting Pete Carroll or...both?
Based on my reading of the pressure measurements in the report I know those points are true.
Don’t be so sure the NFL wouldn’t love to see the suspension overturned on appeal. They still get to keep the image of being tough on misbehavior while allowing the golden boy to keep filling the stands and TV audience. I bet they planned it that way.
Pats will dismantle the four teams they play without Brady - MUCH-improved defense and now they are crazy mad, too. They feed off this stuff.
People who don’t really know what they’re talking about shouldn’t write columns like this.
E.g., they offered to go to whatever convenient location at whatever time to get what would have been for Wells only a second opportunity to interview The Deflator.
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It sure does not sound like there ever was conclusive evidence, but I confess to bias: I live in MA and am a Pats fan. But I was watching the game in question, and the Colts stunk out the joint so badly that the Patriots’ cheerleaders could have beaten them. Go back and watch the earlier Ravens game. No one would have beaten the Pats unless they had allowed it!
The whole damn world is blowing up, and all I hear about is gawddamned ‘inflate-gate’. Even Rush can’t seem to stop talking about it.
I am so sick of this non-story, I wish I could punch the next person who brings it up.
Whatever similarities (re: what other teams have done), as far as I can tell, the culprits didn't engage in an overt coverup.
Some of the other ball tampering has been suspected, but no "sting" operations during the games were engaged in to yield more evidence.
And, indeed, some writers are using the word "sting" because the Colts GM complained about this issue to the NFL BEFORE that playoff game.
IoW, the officiating crew was tipped off by the NFL to be aware of ball cheating.
This matter could readily be compared to any "sting" operation by law enforcement officials.
A "sting" catches somebody in the act.
And all the times that sting doesn't happen means the cheaters & the criminals are getting off scot free.
This statement therefore wreaks of a conclusion that just because law enforcement fails to perform more sting ops, the laws on the books for whatever violation that is "goes unpunished."
(IF that was the case...so does a LOT of NBA officiating...it's become more subjective as players became more physical thru the decades...yet I haven't heard writers like this one whine about the entire tenor of whistles blown during playoffs just because many fouls are "let go" and some nonfouls are called)
If that was the case EVERY NBA victory of any closer game could be called into question.
The author should go on & whine 'bout 100% of civil suits settled by this standard...
I see the author was REALLY desperate for anything to fill out a #10
Refs don't practice weighing balls all week...Equipment mgrs knowing they have a limited amount of time can certainly do that...
100 seconds? Give an NFL team out of timeouts 100 literal seconds ... including clock time stoppage for first downs...and that's an "eternity" to run 11 plays, if necessary. If they can run 11 plays with great mobility over a 100 yard field in 100 literal seconds, a guys who is stationary and has plenty of locker room practice (either pregame and/or what they've done EVERY week going back to 2007 or however long they've been employed) would have no sweat accomplishing this 11 football task.
