Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

Because of all of this talk about deflated footballs, I decided to purchase an official Super Bowl XLIX football. I guess I have footballs on my mind. Remind me not to let Belichick or Rodgers near the ball...

DefenseRules said:

LETS EMBRACE THE HATE. I'M DONE BEING MAD. BRING IT ON. They want to call our team cheaters....FINE...our cheating team is on to the SUPER BOWL!! What is your team doing on February 1st?!!!

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My team is playing in the Super Bowl and looking to take out their frustration!!!

Frig the haters!

Dr Pain said:

This guy is wrong. As I said I set up race cars and race karts and temp and the air pressure for tires is key.

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Obviously physics works differently on footballs!

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/


What a fool.

Crimson_Patriot said:

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/

“The Patriots franchise is on probation as far as I’m concerned, from Spygate,” Wilbon said on Monday’s show, according to Boston.com. “If you’re a cheater, and you’re a multiple time cheater, I would say to the New England Patriots, ‘You know what we’re going to do? If this is found to be true, like today, tomorrow, the next 72 hours, the next three days, you know what? You’re forfeiting your spot in the Super Bowl. We’re vacating it. Get out! You’re a cheater, you’re a lying franchise.'”

What a fool.

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Fun fact: the NFL rulebook specifically prohibits the commissioner or anyone else from declaring a forfeit this way.

Crimson_Patriot said:

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/

“The Patriots franchise is on probation as far as I’m concerned, from Spygate,” Wilbon said on Monday’s show, according to Boston.com. “If you’re a cheater, and you’re a multiple time cheater, I would say to the New England Patriots, ‘You know what we’re going to do? If this is found to be true, like today, tomorrow, the next 72 hours, the next three days, you know what? You’re forfeiting your spot in the Super Bowl. We’re vacating it. Get out! You’re a cheater, you’re a lying franchise.'”

What a fool.

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Honestly, if the NFL takes away draft picks and makes a bigger deal out of this, the Pats should just boycott the super bowl. Screw the NFL and make them hurt.

Crimson_Patriot said:

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/

“The Patriots franchise is on probation as far as I’m concerned, from Spygate,” Wilbon said on Monday’s show, according to Boston.com. “If you’re a cheater, and you’re a multiple time cheater, I would say to the New England Patriots, ‘You know what we’re going to do? If this is found to be true, like today, tomorrow, the next 72 hours, the next three days, you know what? You’re forfeiting your spot in the Super Bowl. We’re vacating it. Get out! You’re a cheater, you’re a lying franchise.'”

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Wait, he holds onto spygate for the better part of a decade, but he's giving the NFL 72 hours to prove it or lose it? Keep acting like the NFL is going to jeopardize the biggest revenue generating event in sports history over 2 PSI.

Crimson_Patriot said:

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/

“The Patriots franchise is on probation as far as I’m concerned, from Spygate,” Wilbon said on Monday’s show, according to Boston.com. “If you’re a cheater, and you’re a multiple time cheater, I would say to the New England Patriots, ‘You know what we’re going to do? If this is found to be true, like today, tomorrow, the next 72 hours, the next three days, you know what? You’re forfeiting your spot in the Super Bowl. We’re vacating it. Get out! You’re a cheater, you’re a lying franchise.'”

What a fool.

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Ha...that's funny. What an idiot.

What's even worse this is a story after the Pats destroyed a team were there was no doubt who the better team was. This is the definition of grasping at straws it's ridiculous and a shame that we can't enjoy our team being in the Superbowl for the 8th time

Bob Kravitz is backtracking a little bit on twitter while remaining defiant with the Patriots are cheaters angle (and linking to the now infamous SI article).

Bob KravitzVerified account‏@bkravitz
The deflation investigation may go nowhere. We don't yet know. Doesn't change fact there is an investigation, which I reported

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P.S. I can investigate whether Tom Brady is a Martian, doesn't make it true and you shouldn't skewer someone based on an investigation.

Crimson_Patriot said:

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/

“The Patriots franchise is on probation as far as I’m concerned, from Spygate,” Wilbon said on Monday’s show, according to Boston.com. “If you’re a cheater, and you’re a multiple time cheater, I would say to the New England Patriots, ‘You know what we’re going to do? If this is found to be true, like today, tomorrow, the next 72 hours, the next three days, you know what? You’re forfeiting your spot in the Super Bowl. We’re vacating it. Get out! You’re a cheater, you’re a lying franchise.'”

What a fool.

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WOW.

ArchAngel007 said:

What's even worse this is a story after the Pats destroyed a team were there was no doubt who the better team was. This is the definition of grasping at straws it's ridiculous and a shame that we can't enjoy our team being in the Superbowl for the 8th time

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Instead of complaining to each maybe we fans should start harassing that pathetic commissioner. Email, Phone, whatever it takes. Make that jackass do his friggin job.

Crimson_Patriot said:

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/

“The Patriots franchise is on probation as far as I’m concerned, from Spygate,” Wilbon said on Monday’s show, according to Boston.com. “If you’re a cheater, and you’re a multiple time cheater, I would say to the New England Patriots, ‘You know what we’re going to do? If this is found to be true, like today, tomorrow, the next 72 hours, the next three days, you know what? You’re forfeiting your spot in the Super Bowl. We’re vacating it. Get out! You’re a cheater, you’re a lying franchise.'”

What a fool.

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I love these pundits who say "Multiple time cheater". Aside from Cameragate, name me one other instance of proven "cheating" that the Patriots have been punished for. Everything other than that has been baseless and unproven speculation.

BSR said:

Ha...that's funny. What an idiot.

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Hey let's go easy on Wilbon.

He's just a butt-hurt Bears fan. Probably thinks the only way the Pats put up 50 + on his carcass of a team was by deflating footballs and "illegally" videotaping signals.

ProFootballTalk ‏@ProFootballTalk 4m4 minutes ago
On PFT Live, NFL exec. VP of football ops @TroyVincent23 says #deflategate investigation will be completed within the next 2-3 days.

ProFootballTalk ‏@ProFootballTalk 3m3 minutes ago
But @TroyVincent23 did not say when findings of #deflategate investigation will be announced.

BelichickFan said:

ProFootballTalk ‏@ProFootballTalk 4m4 minutes ago
On PFT Live, NFL exec. VP of football ops @TroyVincent23 says #deflategate investigation will be completed within the next 2-3 days.

ProFootballTalk ‏@ProFootballTalk 3m3 minutes ago
But @TroyVincent23 did not say when findings of #deflategate investigation will be announced.

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"We are going to have the answers in the next couple of days, but won't announce the decisions for a few more days so the Patriots' name can be dragged through the mud just a little longer.."

BelichickFan said:

ProFootballTalk ‏@ProFootballTalk 4m4 minutes ago
On PFT Live, NFL exec. VP of football ops @TroyVincent23 says #deflategate investigation will be completed within the next 2-3 days.

ProFootballTalk ‏@ProFootballTalk 3m3 minutes ago
But @TroyVincent23 did not say when findings of #deflategate investigation will be announced.

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Duh, they will announce it the night before SB 49. SOP for Patriot's non-troversies during SB weeks.

Theory I have.

Colts cried, league is forced to investigate, Irsay leaks it to his media stooge creating this uproar.

League now has to handle this while public is watching, after having royally screwed up the Ray Rice situation. So to appear as though the investigation is thorough the weighing of a ball and talking to a handful of people is dragged out for 4 days.

League has already told Kraft that nothing is going to come of it, he agrees not to publicly castrate them, and now the league can act as though they are doing a thorough job and take this seriously.

Super Bowl gets hyped because of this controversy, League gets to show its "seriousness", Patriots don't get in trouble.

Everyone wins except us fans being miserable for a week.

Edit: this is also why Gronk has not taken down his twitter picture mocking the scenario, if this was an "ongoing" investigation and there was any chance we get burned, Belichick would have made Gronk take down the tweet as we have seen other tweets get taken down. Also why Brady burst out laughing. They know the results of the investigation already.

Crimson_Patriot said:

Look everyone, another whiner here: http://nesn.com/2015/01/michael-wil...ose-super-bowl-spot-if-guilty-in-deflategate/

“The Patriots franchise is on probation as far as I’m concerned, from Spygate,” Wilbon said on Monday’s show, according to Boston.com. “If you’re a cheater, and you’re a multiple time cheater, I would say to the New England Patriots, ‘You know what we’re going to do? If this is found to be true, like today, tomorrow, the next 72 hours, the next three days, you know what? You’re forfeiting your spot in the Super Bowl. We’re vacating it. Get out! You’re a cheater, you’re a lying franchise.'”

What a fool.

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**** this ******* too. I want to curb stomp this prick right now.

If we actually get in trouble over this while Green Bay can admit on national TV and have it joked about gets nothing, I'm done with NFL. **** this joke of a story. Anyone who thinks this can change the outcome is ******ed and deserves to be steralized and flogged.

KDPPatsfan85 said:

Watching ESPN First Take. Stephen A. Smith is actually defending the Patriots against Jerome Bettis. I never thought that Stephen A. Smith would actually defend us.

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Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless are the two most reasonable people on the entire network.

Michael smith is a horrible influence on Jemele Hill.

Wilbon and Kornheiser have always been the absolute worst.

And although Cowherd always has Belichick's and Brady's back, he is very wrong and very bad on most things.

I find it hard to disagree with most of what Bayless and Smith have to say. Both of them remind me of Collinsworth. Not very likeable personalities. You wouldn't necessarily want to have a beer with them. But they are good analysts who are miles ahead of their peers.

Wilbon and Kornheiser have been awful for over a decade.

This Rosenberg kid from SI used to be on Yahoo Sports, and he was a major Patriot hater.