Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

Mix said:

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Here is a clip someone posted on SoSH of the announcers talking about how Rodgers over-inflates their footballs. Of course nobody cared about that though.

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Isn't that hypocrisy in a bottle right there.

Simms laughing that Rodgers likes to push the envelope and even inflate footballs over what is allowed and just wait and see if the referees remove some air.

But the Patriots as of right now have an under inflated football and its national crucifixion time.

Jesus

BenVolin
Aaron Rodgers likes to “push the limit” to how much air can be in the football RT @MarkSchofield: @BenVolin http://t.co/RD3w5p6qQL
1/20/15, 11:56 AM


Summary: Aaron Rodgers admitted to going over the 13.5psi limit for grip. Up to the refs to take them out.

When I created this thread, I thought this deflategate was just a bs thing made by a butthurt indy reporter. Well, it is still a bs story by a butthurt indy reporter and now it has blown up.
I hope the league comes to its senses and find there was no wrongdoing. Also, I wasnt expecting this thread to see over 80k views and almost 1500 replies. SMH, it is going to be a LOOOONG 2 weeks.

Gotta say... I love the fact that this topic is confined to one thread.

I came from the ESPN boards and I guarantee it would have been impossible to find Super Bowl game talk right about now with all the trolling filling up the page hand other threads dedicated to this topic.

Well a poll taken on the Providence journal showed only 12% of their readers believed that Deflate-gate actually even happened.

http://www.providencejournal.com/sp...te-began-with-second-quarter-interception.ece

I'd be interested in seeing a nationwide poll though, I bet the percentage of believers is higher because of the hate of other fans towards our team.

In any case, the NFL is investigating it, and I believe that the Pats will be found innocent of any wrongdoing.

It is ironic to note, that the incident that brought up the question of deflate-gate was actually a play FAVORABLE to the opposition. It happened when D-Qwell Jackson caught an interception of Tom Brady. A play which HELPED the Colts and possibly made the ball easier for him to intercept.

Apparently deflated balls are easier to intercept, but Colts receivers drop them more and Pats receivers catch them better. *rolleyes* *smh*

I get it now.

After getting whacked 45-7 the Colts have deflated balls. This is news?

Yep, only an issue because it involves the Pats. Panthers can apply blowtorches to footballs on the sidelines, the Giants put them through molecular synthesizers or something, Rodgers freely talks about making an overinflated ball; no outrage at all.

It constantly amazes me just how hated we are outside NE. This for an organization that goes out of its way to say/do the right thing probably more than any other team. I guess people just really hate winners (unless they are the hometown team).

Will Aaron Rodgers be invesitgated? I don't remember any furor about this?

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-...ssion-adds-context-to-deflated-football-talk?

Kjmass1 said:

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Aaron Rodgers likes to “push the limit” to how much air can be in the football RT @MarkSchofield: @BenVolin http://t.co/RD3w5p6qQL
1/20/15, 11:56 AM


Summary: Aaron Rodgers admitted to going over the 13.5psi limit for grip. Up to the refs to take them out.

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And this story becomes even more of a joke. **** the media, **** the NFL, **** the Colts!

We should take all the hate as a badge of honor. I think the Ole Ball Coach, Steve Spurrier, when he was at Florida said it best

(Paraphrasing here)

When your rivals are talking bad about you....it is you are beating them. They only talk good of you when they are beating you. So, needless to say, I think we know which of the two is happening.

Semi-serious question:

Will the Aaron Rodgers point get national discussion?

BHSL2 said:

Semi-serious question:

Will the Aaron Rodgers point get national discussion?

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Nope

Kjmass1 said:

BenVolin
Aaron Rodgers likes to “push the limit” to how much air can be in the football RT @MarkSchofield: @BenVolin http://t.co/RD3w5p6qQL
1/20/15, 11:56 AM


Summary: Aaron Rodgers admitted to going over the 13.5psi limit for grip. Up to the refs to take them out.

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That's nice, but it's also not exactly apples to apples. There's a (IMHO) a big difference between submitting some overinflated balls to the refs and hoping they miss them when they do the pre-game testing (which that clip would appear to refer to) and screwing with the balls after they've been submitted to the refs (which is what NE has been accused of doing).

(And I say that's what they've been accused of doing because it's only screwing with the balls after submitting them that's subject to a penalty, so there's not any point to investigating NE for submitting underinflated balls to the refs -- it's the refs' job to inflate to spec any submitted underinflated balls during pre-game prep.)

PrairiePat said:

It constantly amazes me just how hated we are outside NE. This for an organization that goes out of its way to say/do the right thing probably more than any other team. I guess people just really hate winners (unless they are the hometown team).

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Bingo...some of my best friends are fans of other teams (mostly the Bills, but some others sprinkled in--Packers and Giants others). I got half a dozen texts and a few group e-mail threads about 'deflategate' when the news broke yesterday morning. They're otherwise good guys, but when it comes to the Patriots they LOATHE this team, some believe they've been cheating this entire time and want to see Belichick nailed in any way possible.

It's absurd, really, and speaks to why we, as fans of the most successful team over the past fifteen years, need to just embrace the hate, defend the team with facts where possible but otherwise tell people to F off, enjoy this team and the success while it's there cause it won't last forever.

Just on the radio here in AZ...the local guys here on Doug and Wolfe had on Jay Feely and when asked about the whole "Deflategate" thing basically said it's pretty much impossible for the Pats to do anything...the balls are tested and afterwards safeguarded by league officials and not just the "ball guy" from the team. When asked why the league is taking so long to make a statement he speculated that it's probably due to the fact that they've had so many PR issues lately (Ray Rice) coming out and making statements without crossing all their Ts and dotting their Is...he was implying that it's a league officiating issue if there was a problem with the game balls and if there was any malicious "cheating" it would have to be way deeper than just a ball kid taking air out of some balls and that the officials would have to be in on it which he says is tin foil hat kind of stuff. He was telling stories of when before games he sometimes wanted to check the k balls and just handle them a bit to get a feel if one ball might just be a little better and the official would basically say "no way, I don't want to lose my job" and on occasion they might let him look at some of the balls with the official glued to the ball. Long story short....Jay a Feely says No Way Patriots did anything or could they with the game balls.

BHSL2 said:

Semi-serious question:

Will the Aaron Rodgers point get national discussion?

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Not a chance.

What I'm having a hard time understanding is why this is a story? It's fine though last time some BS story blew up the Pats went undefeated for 18 games this time they only need to win one let it be an FU game of epic proportions

Username said:

Will Aaron Rodgers be invesitgated? I don't remember any furor about this?

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-...ssion-adds-context-to-deflated-football-talk?

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If the Pats get any sort of punishment for this crap, than they need to file lawsuits against the NFL immediately, even if nothing comes from it, and air out all the dirty laundry like this that they have on other teams. Enough of this crap already. And, if there was some sort of "official" complaint from the Colts organization in all this, and the Pats are cleared, they (Colts) should face stiff penalties such as fines, losing draft pics, and their GM suspended without pay for an entire year. This should be the NFL's version of "filing a false police report". In the real world, there are consequences for said action. This BS of someone or organization of being able to do a "drive by" complaint and get investigations going and no backlash if the allegations are false, needs to stop. They should be equally subject to punishment as the investigated party should it come out the other way. But, of course with Rog-Jet Goddell, that will never happen.

BHSL2 said:

Semi-serious question:

Will the Aaron Rodgers point get national discussion?

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You mean the way the Panthers warming up the footballs did? Man, I remember the nanonseconds weeks of outrage the entire country had to work through over that.