Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

This is becoming very tiresome. I am sick and tired of this BS.

this better not be true..doesn't matter how much they won by, that's irrelevant

Ivan said:

Go ahead and enjoy it, I want to enjoy wins without this garbage. Seriously, football has to be the biggest crybaby sport in existence, you never hear crybaby ******** like this after a hockey game or series.

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Agree!

The fans deserve better.

That said, I am glad that this breaking news on 'Ball-gate" broke two weeks before the SB and not on the eve of it.

Would rather have the team deal with it right now and get focussed.

Hopefully this is more than enough to infuriate both the players and coaches and enable them to feast on the media favourite Seahawks (shucks... I also like them).

Marqui said:

Exactly, somebody needs to be fired if this turns out to be true. This is the stupidest thing ever.

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I know this'll get downvoted, but I'd extend that all the way up to the top if that's where it came from, if it happened.

I literally (in the real meaning of that word) cannot believe it came down from BB (if it happened at all) because the stupidity of doing so is both obvious and astronomical -- after Crygate, bogus though it was, would BB really risk his legacy doing something as dumb as this and which unlike Crygate would be actual cheating?? I mean given that the media controls the HoF, doing this would end his chance at it.

But as I said in my previous post, it's almost definitely the NFL investigating some aspect of game operations -- like a bad or improperly inflated ball that accidentally got into play -- and they want to see if they can do better in preventing stuff like that from happening at all.

Most likely, that ball that was swapped out was defective and was noticeably deflated. It's probably standard protocol to investigate to see what happened and if the processes can be improved. I sincerely doubt there is some sort of NFL investigation into any impropriety by the Patriots. The media is irresponsible and is running with the spin that some butt-hurt jack-off put out there. Idiotic jealous NFL fans eat that **** up which just adds more fuel to the fire.

Does anyone remember that moment (I think it was in the 3rd or 4th quarter) when the Pats has the ball and there was a long delay before they could snap it?

The Pats were called away once or twice from the LOS and there seemed to be some confusion. Finally the ref stepped in took the ball and threw it to the sideline and got another ball. It was an odd 45-50 seconds.

It could have been just one ball that somehow became deflated or warped.

This is the NFL investigating why one ball taken out of play was deflated, and all the Patriot haters tweeting it with their spin to get it out into the public consciousness before it's revealed to bbe much ado about nothing.

We'll now be hearing about Deflategate from the knuckle-draggers for the next few years, but I could care less. I love them so mad

Didn't they say on the broadcast that it looked a K ball had mistakenly made it in and they just had to swap it out?

At any rate, the NFL controls the balls. This is sooooo stupid.

Galeb said:

Most likely, that ball that was swapped out was defective and was noticeably deflated. It's probably standard protocol to investigate to see what happened and if the processes can be improved. I sincerely doubt there is some sort of NFL investigation into any impropriety by the Patriots. The media is irresponsible and is running with the spin that some butt-hurt jack-off put out there. Idiotic jealous NFL fans eat that **** up which just adds more fuel to the fire.

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That's an interesting point. I wonder if there is anything written in the rules or other NFL procedural documents saying it is standard procedure?

Either way, this is ruining my enjoyment of a good win and the anticipation of a shot at another title, so I hope it gets resolved (as not guilty) ASAP.

shmessy said:

Does anyone remember that moment (I think it was in the3rd or 4th quarter) when the Pats has the ball and there was a long delay before they could snap it? the Pats were called away once or twice from the LOS and there seemed to be some confusion. Finally the ref stepped in took the ball and threw it to the sideline and got another ball. It was an odd 45-50 seconds.

It could have been just one ball that somehow became deflated or warped.

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As Galeb said above you, that's likely what happened. While a deflated ball may be easier to grip, a visually deflated ball would be next to impossible to throw at an NFL level.

The fact that is not anywhere in the frontpage of ESPN makes me doubt even more about the credibility of the story.

Not that I believe everything that comes out of that network, but they would have jumped very quickly on this story.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/

Whitt25 said:

We can never just win a game. There always has to be an underhanded trick somewhere. My god.

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Yeah This .........Xs 10

I'm so tired of this crap. We can never just have a nice win and enjoy it. If there is anything to this story, it's probably because Joe Shmoe the ball inflator let a bad one go on the field without noticing it. The weather was ridiculous last night at times. Yet if it's confirmed it will somehow be BB and Brady's doing and we'll have the "cheaters always cheat" mantra again. So, so sick of it...

josh24 said:

The fact that is not anywhere in the frontpage of ESPN makes me doubt even more about the credibility of the story.

Not that I believe everything that comes out of that network, but they would have jumped very quickly on this story.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/

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Florio and Fox News disagree and there is it in all its glory..

Yeah this makes so much sense for a team who is beating you with their RUNNING game.

If we are going to be accused of cheating, can they at least give us enough credit to assume we wouldn't suck at it?

Fixit said:

Didn't they say on the broadcast that it looked a K ball had mistakenly made it in and they just had to swap it out?

At any rate, the NFL controls the balls. This is sooooo stupid.

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If the NFL controls the balls then WHY THE **** aren't they quashing this now and informing the public??????

Why are they letting the Patriots/Krafts/BB/Fans fly in the wind like a piñata.

josh24 said:

The fact that is not anywhere in the frontpage of ESPN makes me doubt even more about the credibility of the story.

Not that I believe everything that comes out of that network, but they would have jumped very quickly on this story.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/

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But it's on the front page of NFL.com

NYCPatsFan said:

Agree!

The fans deserve better.

That said, I am glad that this breaking news on 'Ball-gate" broke two weeks before the SB and not on the eve of it.

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Wait for what they have planned for Saturday January 31st around 4pm.

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manxman2601 said:

1. Who cares what other people think?

2. BB has just had his pre-game motivational speech written for him.

I welcome this because it's likely to motivate the team even more if that's possible.

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Multiply the above 600 times. We went 18 straight after the last pile of dung was dumped on us.

Lets see, Patriots file tampering grievance....

Deflategate is created the same day.

Coincidence?