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So there goes Bill's.. Hey..I didnt know anything til this morning crap during his interviews.. He knew at the half
Don't make assumptions, they may not have told him.So there goes Bill's.. Hey..I didnt know anything til this morning crap during his interviews.. He knew at the half
One thing about all this BS is people keep blaming just BB. But if a defensive player could intercept a ball and immediately know it was funny. Then the all the offensive players who touch the ball also knew. So either it was a giant conspiracy by the entire team. Or it was hardly noticeable, and didn't make any difference at all to the offense, refs or anyone else and is just normal.
Huh? The teams give the balls to the refs 2 hours and 15 min before kickoff.
According to Peter King they don't give them the balls back until 2 minutes before kickoffWell they might claim the officials check the balls 2.5 hrs before kickoff and return it back and then it wouldve been 'doctored' , not during the game.
I'm actually on fire right now.
No wonder the pats demolished the colts second half, imagine being in that locker room and those refs come in to check the pressure and inflate those balls right in front of you?
NOT ONLY THAT but the refs STILL had to throw out a ball due to inflation issues, apparently. They couldn't even get it right when they was looking for it.
Actually, this is a better look for him. It makes him totally oblivious to what was going on with the balls. Or the refs are just incompetent and didn't let him know they tested the balls. I mean if he knew, he would have said, yeah the officials mentioned the balls were under regulation so we used new ones.So there goes Bill's.. Hey..I didnt know anything til this morning crap during his interviews.. He knew at the half
Why leave one ball at normal weight? Trying to be optimistic, but is it possible that ball didn't make it into game action?
For real. I just said the same thing to my friend. If we scored 17 before they were fixed yet 28 after, how the hell is it an advantage!?! **** this whole thing. It's stupid. If we actually get punished hard for this, I'm seriously done with the NFL. Never again will i watch it.So what happened after this was discovered and replaced with "normal" balls? Oh yeah
EMBRACE THE HATE. I ****ING LOVE IT!!
Some of you guys are getting ahead of yourselves. Especially the people calling for Bill's job. How about we wait and see what happens? All speculation and no evidence and all you people want is an execution.
Dude, a linebacker noticed it.
A freakin' linebacker.
Ben Volin @BenVolin 32 seconds ago
Globe confirms that game officials discovered at halftime that game balls were underinflated. Tested each ball twice with different gauges
I would like to believe this, but when you have reports that the league is "disappointed ... angry ... distraught," it's most likely because the Patriots did something wrong or the refs did something wrong. And if the refs did something wrong, it looks like it might have been because the Pats got one by them. Either way, doesn't seem like a good look to me. Could be wrong though.Not sure why many are assuming that eleven balls being under inflated is indicative of guilt.
There are many possible explanations that have been apparently overlooked by some in this thread. For example, the physics based on temperature drop from inside the referee's locker room, to outside temperature that night. Also, whether or not the referees did not check the pressure prior to the game, as they are supposed to do.
The PSI is meaningless without a baseline comparison. Unless there is some visual or eyewitness testimony of nefarious dealings, then it shouldn't mean a thing. There are too many other plausible explanations.
The Patriots will be excoriated in the court of public opinion regardless. But the NFL really needs to have some sort of smoking gun, beyond the PSI measurement.