Our local AZ sports news has been interviewing Jake Plummer on this. It's funny how the fans all keep saying the inflation makes no difference, and then you hear from the guys who actually play the game and they all go, "Oh, yeah. It makes a big difference." Plummer was talking about how he was playing a game in the rain in Washington and he kept taking the ball and pressing it and scraping it on the ground (on the sidelines) because he just couldn't get a grip on the thing. So I doubt there is any cloak-and-dagger going on with the center. It's probably the guys on the sidelines -- you see the QBs over there tossing the ball back and forth all the time anyway -- they just stuck a needle in the valve and let a little air out. It would take 2 seconds.
I'm not a fan of either team. What I find most annoying about this whole episode is the Pats fans who cheer on their cheating team, calling everyone else whiners because they lost to a team that CHEATS. "They beat them 45-7. What difference does it make?!" Yeah, right Hillary. We've heard that one before. What difference did it make that a bunch of precincts turned out 110% of their voters who all voted Democrat. Obama still won 335 electoral votes. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
Let’s try not to use political analogies when talking sports.
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Absolutely amazing how far this thread’s gone.