Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

[ctpatsfan77]

Again, people are talking without knowing the math. PSI is not weight. 2 pounds is 16% but pressure is parabolic. You have to use a different equation to measure how much less it is.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say there, but the issue is that there is gauge pressure and absolute pressure; the gauge reads only the gauge pressure (i.e., the extra pressure of inflation), while calculations generally require the absolute pressure (i.e., all the pressure within the ball).

 

[Bobs My Uncle]

Such a shame. Maybe this can all go away if Kraft rescinds the tampering charges against the "the leagues" almighty Jets.

 

[obgod3]

Two straight days I've completely forgotten were in the super bowl.

This entire thing will end up being a blur none of us can actually remember.

Amen, I feel like not bothering to watch the game now, im so sick of it and being out of the Pats area is terrible, folks hitting me left and right and really I have no come back, they are right.

 

[tombonneau]

This is pretty funny too. Sorry if it's been posted already I have probably read 110/179 pages but it's hard to keep up...

http://deadspin.com/the-time-a-jets-kicker-smacked-a-ball-boy-for-not-rubbi-1680960430

Haha that is great. We were all so innocent then. Can you imagine a kicker doing that in 2015? The Internet would break and lifetime ban.

 

[Gronkowski123]

maybe the ball boy says brady told him to do it..

imagine that. brady would get suspended lmao

 

[festy1986]

This entire situation has deflated me bahaha.

If you can't laugh were in trouble.

Just win baby

 

[tombonneau]

Two straight days I've completely forgotten were in the super bowl.

This entire thing will end up being a blur none of us can actually remember.

Yup. Really sucks for fans. Experience is totally ruined. It's one thing Spygate tainting the start of the season and even the Tomase report dropped so late, but this is just going to drag out.

 

[deters]

Who cares now anyways.
This Superbowl has been tarnished, and the experience that I was so looking forward to has been destroyed.
Any credibility this team had, whether the allegations prove true or not, have been shot thanks to this story being overblown.

-Jamman

Agree 100%. This game is ruined before it ever started. The entire experience as you say has been destroyed. What should be a celebrated and monumentally impressive feat is destroyed and smeared over the slight PSI of a ****ing football. I hate the NFL, I hate the media, and I hate humanity. **** this whole thing.

 

[obgod3]

As others have mentioned I am just devastated by this, as a long time 40 year fan I cant get past it anymore, the SB is clearly tarnished already, regardless of what happens it will be mentioned multiple times during the game. We were going to have a nice family get together and enjoy the game and that is ruined by some *** in the Pats organization. I know the facts are not all there yet but you all know there is no scientific or miracle answer to this, someone probably did something intentional, I just dont know how to see any other way and I wish I could.

I have to be done posting on this topic it is depressing. see ya.

 

[flasox27]

Such a shame. Maybe this can all go away if Kraft rescinds the tampering charges against the "the leagues" almighty Jets.

I am sure that would please Goodell. Then Kraft could say he told Goodell there was no Ray Rice tape and exonerate the Ravens.

 

[festy1986]

I just about lost all interest in giving a **** about whether this was cheating or not when I read one report that indy thought there may of been rocks in the ball that vini missed on his fg

 

[Kdo5]

Amen, I feel like not bothering to watch the game now, im so sick of it and being out of the Pats area is terrible, folks hitting me left and right and really I have no come back, they are right.

It's hardly pretty in Pats territory either. I was just at the bar and some guy criticized his friend for wearing a Pats hat and immideately delved into the topic. I hadn't been there more than two minutes. It's straight up depressing.

 

[QuantumMechanic]

http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/7610413-74/rooney-season-league

Really starting to smell like an ambush.

I don't know. I actually liked hearing an influential owner calling it "not serious". Wonder if Kraft is finally making some phone calls.

 

[Gronk]

Haha that is great. We were all so innocent then. Can you imagine a kicker doing that in 2015? The Internet would break and lifetime ban.

Right? I love the balls on the ball boy. Professional football player yells at you (and it sounds like whatever else that job is, you're basically provided to fulfill a service for the visiting team) - doesn't obey him, doesn't apologize, doesn't ignore him - tells him to **** off and calls him a piece of ****.

 

[tombonneau]

Agree 100%. This game is ruined before it ever started. The entire experience as you say has been destroyed. What should be a celebrated and monumentally impressive feat is destroyed and smeared over the slight PSI of a ****ing football. I hate the NFL, I hate the media, and I hate humanity. **** this whole thing.

Yeah you pretty much nailed it. I mean I probably wouldn't even be fazed if Kraft withdrew from the Super Bowl. Really wouldn't make any difference to me.

At least that would be historic and I'd enjoy the entire cluster-f fall out of that happening than I would the Pats winning a SB under these conditions.

 

[IndianPat]

If as Curran think, Kraft fires Belichick over disinflated balls, then I will seriously have to rethink my options on Sunday afternoons.
If you are the Raiders owner and you just hired Jack Del Rio as the coach and suddenly Belichick is available. Would you fire Del Rio without him having coached a single game, eat his salary and hire Belichick? I would, in an instant.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Agree 100%. This game is ruined before it ever started. The entire experience as you say has been destroyed. What should be a celebrated and monumentally impressive feat is destroyed and smeared over the slight PSI of a ****ing football. I hate the NFL, I hate the media, and I hate humanity. **** this whole thing.

I swear, if the NFL goes nuclear on the Pats over this, after giving the Vikings and Panthers nothing more than a memo earlier this year, I might just be done with the NFL altogether. Any punishment beyond a small fine and maybe a mid-late round draft pick is just a straight up smear job under PR pressure, and if Goodell makes such a deliberate effort to ruin my favorite team after 10 years of ruining the sport itself, I don't think there would be any reason to continue supporting this league.

 

[Snarf]

I'm not sure if you people in New England have any idea, but this is a HUGE story outside of New England. How it has managed to gain a life of its own like this is crazy.

As a Pats fan I live in LA, and no less than 4 different people brought it up (out of the blue mostly): a bank teller, grocery guy, boss, etc. And it's not "hey did you hear about the deflated balls?" but "Can you believe the Patriots cheated to get into the superbowl?"

There is a near universal assumption at this point that (a) the Patriots are guilty of a most heinous crime, and (b) they should not be in the super bowl at all.

At this point I don't think the situation is recoverable. Even if the NHL came out and said there was nothing at all to it, the damage has been done. The Patriots cheated to make it to the superbowl.

 

[Patriots1364life]

I dont see this as a big deal although they didnt have to do it.They dominated the colts.I have a problem wih bill if he knew.The officials are even worse for not knowing

 

[ausbacker]

You are leaving some stuff out there conveniently. They weren't "under inflated". They were DE flated". Someone or some condition DEflated those balls between the time they left the officials pregame and halftime on Sunday.

They just didn't magically show up under inflated.

You are correct, they have not been found guilty of anything at this point, but let's try to keep it somehow truthful also.

Under-inflated, deflated, it's a word that makes no difference @shmessy. The intimation is exactly the same.