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Evidence suggests Patriots deliberately deflated footballs
Boston Globe ^
| 1/21/15
| Ben Volin
Posted on 01/21/2015 7:44:52 PM PST by randita
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To: ez
We can probably go back to 1967, to super bowl I, and discover that they did it then.
To: P-Marlowe
Have a couple of hundred balls all fresh from the factory and inflated to specs and then replace the football after every down. Then sell the footballs after the game for double what they cost. They actually use a new football for every play in the Super Bowl and sell them or give them to sponsors later.
To: cincinnati65
Slap 'em with a fine and a mid-level draft pick and be done with it.
Better idea.
After the coin toss, before the kickoff, announce to world-wide TV and attendees:
The Boston (sic) "Patriots" are cheaters. They've done it before and they'll probably do it again. We don't care, because all I, Goodell, and the NFL cares about is money. We hereby fine the "pats" $1 and will buy them a round of drinks after the game. So, STFU.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:11:57 PM PST
by
867V309
(Boehner is the new Pelosi)
To: randita
Seahawks defense cheats as often as possible and never gets called on it. Pats are looking to even the score.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:16:48 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
To: P-Marlowe
That’s why the Pats are considered as lower than pond scum. They are so low, they think the rules apply only to the other teams. They don’t care if they get caught cheating, so they cheat if it will help them win.
To: FamiliarFace
They are so low, they think the rules apply only to the other teams. Well, they are from New England. Liberals assume the other guy is going to play by the rules so they cheat.
Regardless, the whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. If the league doesn't want teams tampering with the footballs, they shouldn't allow the teams to bring their own footballs. Just try to bring your own dice to Vegas or your own cards to a card casino.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:22:09 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.a)
To: P-Marlowe
Explain to me how underinflating footballs is cheating? Aren't both teams using the same balls? 1. Tom Brady has openly said he prefers to throw balls that have less air in them.
2. A QB can't throw the ball as far if the ball is deflated. The fastest receiver capable of a long touchdown in the game against Indianapolis was the Colts' TY Hilton.
3. The Patriots obviously thought it was to their advantage to have the balls deflated.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:26:45 PM PST
by
Kazan
To: cincinnati65
Slap 'em with a fine and a mid-level draft pick and be done with it. That isn't good enough considering Belichick has been caught cheating before. Either suspend him for a year or take away their first round pick and, possibly, other picks as well.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:28:39 PM PST
by
Kazan
To: P-Marlowe
Because they have a rule that each team brings 12 of their own footballs! Silly isn’t it!
Why in the world doesn’t the NFL provide their own footballs for each game (and control them) - I am shocked that this is not the case.
To open the debate about this is their own fault - geez@!
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:29:59 PM PST
by
Deagle
To: Deagle
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:31:50 PM PST
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: randita
Waterboard Belichick. Make him tell everything.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:32:30 PM PST
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
To: Seruzawa
Yes, and I still remember Phil Jackson’s Lakers throwing a playoff game against Indiana and the L.A. Clippers throwing a game to protest Donald Sterling.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:32:46 PM PST
by
getarope
(Jesus is coming soon, and boy is he PISSED!)
To: timestax
Hey, he is only been caught twice so far, so he has at least one to go. Right?
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:33:27 PM PST
by
Deagle
To: timestax
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:33:59 PM PST
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: Deagle
We see enough of this garbage in politics, now the Cheatriots have brought this crap into sports!! Enough is enough.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:37:06 PM PST
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: Kazan
The Patriots obviously thought it was to their advantage to have the balls deflated. And if a team thinks it has an advantage playing on mud or really wet grass, would it be cheating if their landscapers flooded the field the night before a game?
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:38:58 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.a)
To: timestax
77
posted on
01/21/2015 9:40:17 PM PST
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: timestax
78
posted on
01/21/2015 9:41:51 PM PST
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: Kazan
Belicheat was not even coach on December 12,1982 when Patriots cheated and sent a prison inmate onto the snow covered field to plow a path illegally so the kicker would nail the field goal that won the game.
It has to be an overall corrupt team ownership that just do not follow the rules. They did not even have to cheat,they just do it like Obama lies without any remorse or thoughts that it makes the whole team look slimy.
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posted on
01/21/2015 9:53:16 PM PST
by
samantha
(keep up the fight....)
To: Sacajaweau
Since both teams are using the same ball, can you tell me where theres an edge??
Both teams - or rather, both offenses - don't use the same ball. Each offense gets 12 balls to use. If one side under-inflates it's balls, only it's QB will benefit.
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