This is my timeline as best I as can put it together.
http://www.wcvb.com/sports/nfl-inve...ayer-thought-ball-was-under-inflated/30798932
Sources tell SportsCenter 5's Mike Lynch that D'Qwell Jackson, of the Indianapolis Colts, intercepted a pass before the end of the first half of the AFC Championship game against the New England Patriots Sunday night and told his equipment manager that the ball felt under-inflated, leading to the so-called 'deflategate' controversy.
According to sources, the equipment manager then informed the Colts' head coach, Chuck Pagano, who then informed the team's general manager, Ryan Grigson.
Grigson then called the National Football League's director of field operations, who then called the locker room and spoke with the officials on the field at halftime.
During the first play coming back from halftime, there was a delay to the game while official changed the football being used on the field.
Sources told Lynch that several footballs were taken out of play during the game Sunday night, but that's not unusual and there have been times in previous games that officials have changed footballs during play due to factors such as air temperature changed that cause the ball to over or under inflate.
So the Colts intercept Brady on an under thrown pass and immediate jump to the conclusion that the Patriots were intentionally under inflating their footballs - obviously in an attempt to make it easier for them to throw interceptions.
The Colts then call the NFL during the game and file a complaint.
After the Colts lose 45-7, Bob Kravitz talked to his source and decides to break the news that the Superbowl bound Patriots were once again being investigated by the NFL for cheating... again.
The next day Kravtiz even defends his decision to break this as he puts it, "outlandish" story as being entirely unmotivated by sour grapes. He states that he chose to run with it, mainly because this source has never steered him wrong before.
Bob Kravitz said:
“I was told by an NFL source that the league was looking into — or going to look into — the possibility that the Patriots deflated the footballs,”
Kravitz told WEEI on Monday morning. “I thought it was outlandish, but
this particular source has never steered me wrong before.”
We are now being informed here, though I cannot confirm it, that Mike Lynch is reporting that Bob Kravitz' source is none other than Jim Irsay himself.
Oddly enough, this is what Bob Kravitz himself had to say about Jim Irsay's level of honesty.
http://www.indystar.com/story/sport...say-fighting-for-his-life-needs-help/6523925/
Bob Kravtiz said:
I asked him two months ago about his weight loss, which has brought him from 235 pounds to 165, and he insisted the doctors wanted him to lose weight to keep the strain off his troublesome back and hip.
I suspected otherwise.
I guess billionaire drug addicts get a honesty pass from Bob Kravitz - as long as they only lie to him about the physically exhaustive extent of their drug use.
Coincidentally, Mr. Kravitz had this to say about the reasons he chose not to write a story about an NFL owner being a drug addict -
he didn't have any actual proof, just suspicions.
Bob Kravtiz who addresses himself here in the Third Person as is his wont to do said:
So why didn't you write it?
That's a fair question. But it's much like the baseball players during the steroid era. Suspicions cannot be the basis for news stories. My feeling all along has been, "Unless he gets arrested for drugs, or acts erratically in a public setting while obviously under the influence, it will remain nothing more than an educated guess."
Now he's been arrested.
The game has changed.
But one under-inflated football and one drug addicts exaggeration later and it becomes a BREAKING story.
Gotcha, Bob.
