The Published Wells Report.

[PatsFanSince74]

The league got the report it wanted.
Unfortunately, it will resonate with most fans outside of Patriots Nation..."yeah, Brady had to know..."
The standard was "more probable than not," and not "beyond a reasonable doubt."
Time for me to ignore ESPN, NFL Network and the New York tabloids for a week or two.

Without Spygate, this would either never have been raised or would have been a footnote somewhere. As Pats fans, we have to accept that Spygate, as overblown and ******** as it was, will leave the Patriots "guilty until proven innocent" for the foreseeable future.

 

[JMC00]

Then how did the balls deflate?

Ya it's hilarious. On the kicking balls they are saying Pats didn't do anything, yet on the AFCC game balls they are saying it was probable someone tampered with them and there is no-way the weather and elements did it.

F*ckin joke.

Like I said NFL got the report it wanted. Let's disregard all scientific experiments that took place that proved if you fill a ball up in 70+ degrees and take it to a 45-50 degree wet environment that it could lose PSI.

Colts balls were under too. But because they weren't as under as the Pats balls let's just ignore that fact.

 

[strngplyr]

You can see Breer's boner over all this from a hundred miles away.

...it's not that big

 

[Bella*chick]

Well.

Looks like I may have a lot of free time on Sunday's in the fall!

 

[Deus Irae]

Beginning of what? Discipline for TB12?

You can't discipline a player that "probably" did something.

Even a Cro-Magnon like Goodell wouldn't do that.

Goodell has expressed a wish to do precisely that.

 

[Sicilian]

Ok, I'm going to have to turn off the radio. There's no way in hell I'm going to listen to F/M on this, and, while I'm a fan of Dale and Holley, Dale loses me when he goes moralizing.

Yeah, time to find myself some good audiobooks. No way I'm listening to sports talk on my hour long commute for the foreseeable future.

 

[Soul_Survivor88]

Ben Volin ‏@BenVolin 2m2 minutes ago
Goodell says Troy Vincent will now be in charge of handing out any punishment to the #Patriots and anyone involved

 

[Gronkowski123]

kravtiz on outside the lines lol

totally forgot about him and doyle. those douchebags will be everywhere now haha

 

[Dr Pain]

Another problem. Page 67. "According to Seabrooks, he believed that the ball felt similar to the footballs intercepted by Mike Adams during the Colts game against the Patriots earlier in the season, so he asked one of the team‟s equipment interns to locate a pressure gauge and test the inflation level of the intercepted ball. The intern used a digital pressure gauge similar to the gauge used by the Colts to set their footballs before the game, and reported that the pressure measured approximately 11 psi."

That game was in Indy so the Patriots would not have even had the balls after inspection.

 

[Bella*chick]

I just skimmed through the actual report.

Some of the texts between McNally and Jastremski are gonna be used to crucify Brady publicly.

Get ready.

Knowing my own text message feed I have to say i don't put much stock into two idiots bantering on text message. But I guess everyone else does.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Ben Volin ‏@BenVolin 2m2 minutes ago
Goodell says Troy Vincent will now be in charge of handing out any punishment to the #Patriots and anyone involved

disn't troy vincent lose a super bowl to NE? we're screwed

 

[JMC00]

Well Goodell just weasled is way out of punishing Brady or the Pats and put it on Troy Vincent. Which yep there might not be any conflict of interest there seeing is how that whole Eagles team thinks they got cheated out of a SB.

 

[Gronkowski123]

Ben Volin ‏@BenVolin 2m2 minutes ago
Goodell says Troy Vincent will now be in charge of handing out any punishment to the #Patriots and anyone involved

fine + draft pick.

 

[bbobbo]

this part does make mcnally seem suspicious:

When Anderson and other members of the officiating crew were preparing to
leave the Officials Locker Room to head to the field for the start of the game, the
game balls could not be located. It was the first time in Anderson‟s nineteen
years as an NFL official that he could not locate the game balls at the start of a
game. Unknown to Anderson, and without Anderson‟s permission or the
permission of any other member of the officiating crew, McNally had taken the
balls from the Officials Locker Room towards the playing field. According to
Anderson and other members of the officiating crew for the AFC Championship
Game, the removal of the game balls from the Officials Locker Room by McNally
without the permission of the referee or another game official was a breach of
standard operating pre-game procedure. According to Anderson, other members
of the officiating crew for the AFC Championship Game and other game officials
with recent experience at Gillette Stadium, McNally had not previously removed
game balls from the Officials Locker Room and taken them to the field without
either receiving permission from the game officials or being accompanied by one
or more officials.

and then

Based on videotape evidence and witness interviews, it has been determined that
McNally removed the game balls from the Officials Locker Room at
approximately 6:30 p.m. After leaving the Officials Locker Room carrying two
large bags of game balls (Patriots balls and Colts balls), McNally turned left and
then turned left again to walk down a corridor referred to by Patriots personnel as
the “center tunnel” heading to the playing field. At the end of the center tunnel on
the left-hand side, approximately three feet from the doors that lead to the playing
field, is a bathroom. McNally entered that bathroom with the game balls, locked
the door, and remained in the bathroom with the game balls for approximately one
minute and forty seconds. He then left the bathroom and took the bags of game
balls to the field.

and then

Following the game, before he left the stadium, McNally was interviewed by
members of NFL Security. During that interview, McNally did not mention that
he had taken the game balls into the bathroom. Instead, he stated that he walked
directly to the field and that nothing unusual occurred during the walk from the
locker room to the field. In subsequent interviews, McNally provided varying
explanations for the bathroom stop and his decision not to utilize readily available
bathroom facilities in the Officials Locker Room and adjacent Chain Gang Locker
Room.

first, he removes the balls without authorization, then he lies about stopping in the bathroom on the way to the field.

 

[Wrath Mania]

...it's not that big

You'd be surprised what his lust for the ginger hammer can produce.

 

[SVN]

Tom's image is forever tarnished because of this report.

 

[Danger Zone]

Didnt the official state that the Patriot footballs "started" at around 12.5 and the Colts around 13?

Well, take a look at the Colts chart of PSIs at half-time and take away that .5 starting difference between their starting PSI and the Patriots.

Looks awfully similar to the Patriots numbers.

 

[luuked]

Ben Volin ‏@BenVolin 2m2 minutes ago
Goodell says Troy Vincent will now be in charge of handing out any punishment to the #Patriots and anyone involved

Excited to find out how the Colts will be punished for their underinflated balls.

 

[Pats2000]

Walt Anderson measured all the balls before the game. I think the 13.0/13.1 psi figure is from his memory, I don't see anything about the measurements being written down.

That's BS, that means they just picked an arbitrary starting number for both sides. As well, numerous people and physicists ran tests that accounted for a 1 lb drop in PSI

 

[ForThoseAboutToRock]

Except for ESPN's breathless reporting that someone (McNally?) tried to introduce a K ball into the game. . . .

Wells Report says that it was Walt Anderson who offered TB a K ball to begin play, after the balls were late coming back from the official's locker room during halftime (because they were being measured).