(Shocker /s) No Changes to Pre-Game Ball Inspections in '15

[The Gr8est]

I wish someone in the Patriots organization would setup a science experiment display at every home game. I'm picturing a pedestal with a glass box on top with plenty of ventilation holes drilled in. Inside a football inflated just before game time to 12.5 psi and a gauge permanently attached. Put a stadium camera on it and flash it on the big screen periodically throughout the game.

Kraft would throw his body on top of the football to protect the league from the resultant embarrassment, the same way a heroic soldier would throw himself on a grenade to save others.

 

[ViperGTS]

I think the Pats would be crazy not to take pressure readings on all of the footballs after every game. There's no rule against doing it.

Wouldn't matter. Unless it's a league official doing it it won't matter. Even then they won't remember what guage they used so its a moot point. If they did it themselves no one would believe them.

 

[Fencer]

of course, you all do realize that this season there will be dozens of independent experiments done before every game by human beings with actual ,measurable intelligence levels that supercede the established Troy Vincent/Roger Goodell submongoloidal baseline...there HAS to be people working in NFL Offices that have made this aware to the damnable scumbagdell. How does the NFL refute the avalanche of new scientific documentation that will sledgehammer home the TRUTH?

I cannot wait...I have no idea what this ignoroid Goodell thinks can possibly happen going forward to buttress HIS idiotic stance.

I think the NFL can prevent reliable testing of and experimentation with its footballs.

What it cannot prevent is colleges doing such experimentation.

Lobby every Division III college you know to do such tests. Somebody could easily get a paper or master's thesis or whatever out of it.

 

[Fencer]

I think the NFL can prevent reliable testing of and experimentation with its footballs.

What it cannot prevent is colleges doing such experimentation.

Lobby every Division III college you know to do such tests. Somebody could easily get a paper or master's thesis or whatever out of it.

Actually, that may be even a better idea for high schools. E.g., it could make a great high school science fair project. If you have kids of high school age, turn them loose on it!

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

It's such a freaking joke that the majority of fans (of other teams) think the hierarchy of the MFL are some mighty, powerful, intelligent, unbiased empire. (Think the great and powerful OZ). They (the MFL) are just dumb jocks with a past full of biased agenda. Or hired BSers to put on a "face of integrity "... I, for one, kinda thought that way myself. It really is amazing to finally realize that these clowns are as stupid and simple as my coworkers.

 

[Mr. Plow]

It's such a freaking joke that the majority of fans (of other teams) think the hierarchy of the MFL are some mighty, powerful, intelligent, unbiased empire. (Think the great and powerful OZ). They (the MFL) are just dumb jocks with a past full of biased agenda. Or hired BSers to put on a "face of integrity "... I, for one, kinda thought that way myself. It really is amazing to finally realize that these clowns are as stupid and simple as my coworkers.

I'm sure you realize this, too...

There will be another scandal this year. At least one. God willing, it will not involve the Patriots.

Goodell will jump into it with both feet. And, you may take this to the bank, he will f*** it up beyond all recognition.

 

[XLIX]

I think the NFL can prevent reliable testing of and experimentation with its footballs.

What it cannot prevent is colleges doing such experimentation.

Lobby every Division III college you know to do such tests. Somebody could easily get a paper or master's thesis or whatever out of it.

I think that's a great idea. I was actually hoping some media outlet would do something similar this year.

 

[Koma]

Kraft would throw his body on top of the football to protect the league from the resultant embarrassment, the same way a heroic soldier would throw himself on a grenade to save others.

Gotta protect the other 31!

 

[WhoaDirty]

I just hope the Patriots film all the procedures and document them , the NFL is so ridiculous that I don't doubt they would dare to play the same card next winter again.

Why, so the Patriots can be hit with another penalty for filming from an illegal location?

 

[Fencer]

I think that's a great idea. I was actually hoping some media outlet would do something similar this year.

My point is that private citizens can do it as well. All you need is a connection to a high school or college.

My nephew edited an award-winning school newspaper in high school, and wrote a stupid piece assuming the Deflategate charges were true. Unfortunately, I saw that only when traveling to attend his graduation. If he'd done it as a junior, I'd be all over him to use his team (which I think he played on one season) as a laboratory to do some real reporting.

 

[Koma]

I'm sure you realize this, too...

There will be another scandal this year. At least one. God willing, it will not involve the Patriots.

Goodell will jump into it with both feet. And, you may take this to the bank, he will f*** it up beyond all recognition.

I like the way you're thinking, but prepare to be disappointed.

After cameraplacementgate, I had the same thought: In the next few years, some other team will be caught doing the same thing and Goodell will have to deal out a harsher penalty than the Patriots got. Then the Broncos get caught doing something worse, taping another team's practice. (And, yeah, I know McDaniels was the head coach at the time, but that should actually make the punishment worse. He had a "track record," but Denver either did nothing to reign him in or the organizational attitude toward the rules was so lax, he felt like he could get away with it.) The punishment? A total of $100K in fines for the coach and team.

The pattern repeated itself with the Jets tampering with Revis. It was a text book violation by a division rival on the highest profile player ever involved in a tampering case. The punishment? Less than what other teams caught for tampering received.

I predict we'll see the Saints involved in a rules violation and when the punishment comes down, we won't hear anything about a pattern of behavior or a repeat offender in the eyes of the league. And the media will act like there's nothing unusual about that.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

Something else that doesn't surprise me with the NFL...reoccurring theme here...

 

[n6249c]

I wish someone in the Patriots organization would setup a science experiment display at every home game. I'm picturing a pedestal with a glass box on top with plenty of ventilation holes drilled in. Inside a football inflated just before game time to 12.5 psi and a gauge permanently attached. Put a stadium camera on it and flash it on the big screen periodically throughout the game.

Maybe Bill Simmons can get HBO to do that as a promo for his show? Set up one in the parking lot outside every game. Report on the results, every game.