Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

BradyManny · Jan 19, 2015

Man, 25 pages. This whole thread should be one series of Haters Gonna Hate memes.

The NFL is really good at drawing attention to things that don't matter at all (like this) and paying no attention to things that matter (domestic violence committed by its players, player safety). Great work Goodell.

moejr · Jan 19, 2015

flasox27 said:
You are an idiot if you think that BB wants to taint his win with this crap. I hardly think you are33 a Pats fan either

Put him on ignore like am going to. He obviously knows jack crap.

Darrone · Jan 19, 2015

OhExaulted1 said:
I think drawing a correlation between a triple-murderer and slightly defleated might lead one to conclude maybe you should tone it down a bit.

That's exactly my point, innocent until proven guilty has a place in a court of law, but we're talking about doctoring balls in a game. We can have opinions, and speculate without harm. We don't need to shut down the discussion until a Congressional hearing is held and finger prints have been lifted and DNA evidence gathered.

Deus Irae · Jan 19, 2015

Another new troll for the board?

Jackson 2 · Jan 19, 2015

reflexblue said:
I agree that its unlikely that BK will do anything but he should look at it this way. He owes it to the fans, the team, and the organization as a whole. By not fighting spygate he let the organization be dragged through the mud, and the the team and the name the N E Patriots have never recovered.
Kraft needs to stick up for the team and himself and do something or it will continue to happen, Like someone posted we can't win a game without there being some type of allegations of cheating being made.

Hey, you're preaching to the choir. But, if it hasn't happened by now, it won't, at least in my opinion.

chasa · Jan 19, 2015

the best part about this is the refs took the balls out at the start of the second half, the patriots then went on to score another 30 points.

Just like "spygate" it didn't mean jack ****. the patriots still dominated after it happened.

Silver Blue&Red · Jan 19, 2015

sb1 said:
Suit would be thrown out. Nothing Kravitz said on record was defamation.

Can we just hit him over the head with a tire iron?

zoostation · Jan 19, 2015

mosi said:
Yes, and Philly teams are are brutal to sports fans...

Yeah - I'm pretty sure they can blame that loss on their own # 5

Ring 6 · Jan 19, 2015

Darrone said:
Dude, it's an opinion, calm down. we're all just speculating here until the investigation comes out. And besides, Hernandez hasn't been found guilty of anything, do you think he's innocent?

The Patriots have not even be ACCUSED of anything by anyone with any knowledge of the actual events and facts. The league investigates balls that are taken out of play. Some idiot reporter takes that to mean the Patriots did something ridiculous, stupid and illegal. The league is investigating the football, not the Patriots.
No true Patriot fan would respond with "I'm sure we did it" so I conclude you are just a troll.

shmessy · Jan 19, 2015

Silver Blue&Red said:
Can we just hit him over the head with a tire iron?

Hey Aaron, they let you have internet in there?

moejr · Jan 19, 2015

I hope this is over fast. I don't want to hear about this crap for 2 weeks. I am so over the NFL.

Bobsyouruncle · Jan 19, 2015

The truth will likely never come out. Sports media is just not very good. Remember post spy-gate they didn't even ask any questions. What about the Jets cameraman getting tossed the year before? What about the fact that you see team camera guys on the sideline almost every game to this day? What about the fact that the NFL rules didn't forbid it, and the commissioner cannot make rules by memo? What about the fact that the Patriots cameraman was wearing blue and holding a camera the size of a Winnebago in plain view of the world? Hardly seems like the act of someone who thought they were being sneaky. And if the NFL was so against it, why didn't they say something before the Jets mentioned it? It could not have been more obvious. Seems the officials didn't find it unusual or illegal until a top down order came through.

The obvious questions here are: How often are balls removed? Is there always an investigation? If the ref is in charge of checking the ball, and the NFL controls the ball then doesn't an under inflated ball implicate the officials as either incompetent or corrupt? These are questions that will be answered on blogs by amateurs, because the national media is garbage and always has been.

SVN · Jan 19, 2015

Football Zebras ‏@footballzebras 2m2 minutes ago
In the long run, the alleged ball issue is very little about competitive balance and everything about perception. That will be the focus

archstanton543 · Jan 19, 2015

Danger Zone said:
Or in other news, the Patriots are cheaters because it got cold outside... at night... in January... in New England.

But it was in the upper 30's-lower-40's all night.

shmessy · Jan 19, 2015

Bobsyouruncle said:
The truth will likely never come out. Sports media is just not very good. Remember post spy-gate they didn't even ask any questions. What about the Jets cameraman getting tossed the year before? What about the fact that you see team camera guys on the sideline almost every game to this day? What about the fact that the NFL rules didn't forbid it, and the commissioner cannot make rules by memo? What about the fact that the Patriots cameraman was wearing blue and holding a camera the size of a Winnebago in plain view of the world? Hardly seems like the act of someone who thought they were being sneaky. And if the NFL was so against it, why didn't they say something before the Jets mentioned it? It could not have been more obvious. Seems the officials didn't find it unusual or illegal until a top down order came through.

The obvious questions here are: How often are balls removed? Is there always an investigation? If th ref is in charge of checking the ball, and the NFL controls the ball then doesn't an under inflated ball implicate the officials as either incompetent or corrupt? These are questions that will be answered on blogs by amateurs, because the national media is garbage and always has been.

W.I.N.N.E.R.

rochrist · Jan 19, 2015

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.

Unless Vancouver is involved.

zoostation · Jan 19, 2015

chasa said:
Gotta wonder how this would even happen.

Balls are tested before the game, and then they are handled by the refs until after the game ends. It's not like the Hamburgalar snuck in and deflated the balls mid game.

Was the Hamburgalar lined up as an ineligible receiver on the Soldier TD catch? I smell another front page controversy. Burgalar-gate.

OhExaulted1 · Jan 19, 2015

Darrone said:
That's exactly my point, innocent until proven guilty has a place in a court of law, but we're talking about doctoring balls in a game. We can have opinions, and speculate without harm. We don't need to shut down the discussion until a Congressional hearing is held and finger prints have been lifted and DNA evidence gathered.

You drew the correlation between Hernandez and a potentially slightly deflated football. That's on you.

Personally I like to reserve judgement about something so incredibly inane as a slightly deflated football in a 45-7 epic blowout.

Big-T · Jan 19, 2015

archstanton543 said:
But it was in the upper 30's-lower-40's all night.

That doesn't matter if the room the balls were pumped up/weighed in was in the 70s. There's still enough difference in temperature to cause a loss of pressure.

NYCPatsFan · Jan 19, 2015

fnordcircle said:
If he cheated after the spygate crap? That makes him not only an actual cheater (we can probably agree spygate wasn't actually cheating) but it makes him a ****ing idiot. Especially to cheat against a team that has been our ***** for a while now.

I wonder if "****idiots" include those recklessly speculating on hypothetical situations.

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