Posted on 05/19/2015 1:14:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ball deflation already has mandated penalties, that’s not new. The commissioner has the right under the rules to impose the penalties he chose.
The fact that the game was not close is meaningless. Just like the fact that a speeder on the road didn’t injure anyone is meaningless.
There are always more serious things going on than football.
That’s why football takes care of itself.
The Patriots are repeat offenders at cheating and probably took the deal to keep more things from coming out.
Brady can appeal and the Patriots’ ownership has decided to take their medicine.
Now you can go worry about all those more important things you mentioned, so you should be happy.
And this wasn't about one game.
Yea, and if you get caught you get punished!
Maybe he knows his team can still kick the shiite muslim out of every team in the league even spotting them 4 games without Brady.
Why should it be? They beat the Seahawks with fully inflated balls. The Seahawks would have won if they weren’t retarded. Skittles should have got the handoff.
(Yeah, that's why Kraft had written the NFL the week of the Colts' game, saying to beware of the Colts' underinflated footballs...oh, wait a minute...I got that backwards: 'Twas the Colts' GM that did that 'bout Patriot footballs!)
They weren't playing in a pelting pain, where fumbles tend to be more frequent, and passes aren't as readily nabbed.
They were under inflated (first three tested, then they found one that was not and quit testing) at half time. After the game, all the Patriots footballs were still inflated well enough, but 3/4 of the Colts team balls were not.
Possible, but very difficult to prove.
The NFL uses an inexpensive and not particularly accurate gauge to test the game balls. Model CJ-01 (Pg 172)
Yes they ran a test where someone could let 'some' air out of each of the balls in one minute 40 sec.
But they do not tell us the pressure drop of each ball. http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Deflategate.pdf
Kraft said, “So in that spirit I don’t want to continue the rhetoric that’s gone on for the last four months.”
In my mind, the key word here is “rhetoric”. Kraft wants us to stop talking about the Patriots being cheaters, and if he can get people to stop talking about their cheating just a little sooner, he’ll accept the NFL’s punishment.
However, his acquiescing won’t get that asterisk to disappear. This is the second asterisk the Patriots have next to their name, and neither one will disappear any time soon.
A few teams have been penalized for infractions...put in perspective, none of those actions call into question competitive outcomes.
Ha. Maybe not to you.
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