Deflate-Gate: Here We Go Again

The ballboy may well end up being famous when all is said a done. I wonder what his needle will fetch on Ebay?

TommyBrady12 said:

No the fact that the refs stuck to the ball boy like glue at halftime means that the refs suspected the balls were deflated in the first half.

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Lets not treat some guy calling himself and insider as the shining source of truth

TommyBrady12 said:

No the fact that the refs stuck to the ball boy like glue at halftime means that the refs suspected the balls were deflated in the first half.

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Or the "insider" has no idea what he is talking about.

TommyBrady12 said:

No the fact that the refs stuck to the ball boy like glue at halftime means that the refs suspected the balls were deflated in the first half.

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Irrelevant to me, they measured them at halftime so they wanted to make sure nothing happened in the second half. What happened, we don't know yet. We may or may not find out. But we know we played better after the ball inflation.

Bruce Allen ‏@bruceallen 5m5 minutes ago
I see more @nflcommish salacious leaks to the good ol' boy network...

I agree. This type of news leak doesnt help the pats even if they find there was another explanation to this. By creating a news impression first, the findings dont matter.

I don't understand why the NFL is leaking the entire investigation to idiots like Mortensen.
We have an investigation and state you will discuss your findings when it is done, if you are going to open it up to leaked information and rumor mongering?

karguy85 said:

Ok, so they were tested 2 hours and 15 minutes before the game. Then, presumably, they were outside during warmups and for the first half of the game. That would mean they were in the "elements" for about 4 hours? Is that enough time to lose compression? And if they were tested at halftime, I assume it takes time for them to warm back up when inside?

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This is wishful thinking. during the 2 hours and 15 minutes before the game the thought is the pats or someone tampered with the footballs.

so here is the run up from the current/former QBs:

Aaron Rodgers - "over inflate the football"
Eli Manning - "Methodical preparation of football - including soaking, rubbing etc"
Brad Johnson - "Bribed someone to scrub/tamper the football in SUPERBOWL"
Matt Lienart - "everyone does it, I did it, this is ridiculuous"
Panthers - "caught warming the balls in sideline"
Vikings - "caught warming the balls in sideline"
Pats - ???


WTF I'm missing here. Colts just stunk up the joint after they balls got deflated after yet another ass whooping is what happend

chasa said:

Oh good, mediots are calling for BB to be fired, Suspended from the superbowl, and blackballed from the NFL Pete rose style for life.

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Nothing will happen to Belichick except maybe a fine and outside chance of draft pick loss.Don't see how they are going to prove anything though.

Username said:

No chance unfortunately. Even if Andrew Luck himself confessed that the ball deflation thing was an elaborate conspiracy concocted by the Colts, who murdered the original ballboys, dumped their bodies in a skip, and replaced them with ringers who subsequently deflated the ball, even then people would still want BB sacked, Pats stripped of all our draft picks and Robert Kraft dipped in a river to see if he floats.

Once hysteria takes off, facts are utterly unimportant.

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What's a "skip"? Is that a Whitey Bulger reference?

AndyJohnson said:

I don't understand why the NFL is leaking the entire investigation to idiots like Mortensen.
We have an investigation and state you will discuss your findings when it is done, if you are going to open it up to leaked information and rumor mongering?

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Trial balloons to guage the public's response.

The Gr8est said:

Trial balloons to guage the public's response.

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Sadly you may be right. Goodell wants Twitter to make his decision so he gives the one that is least likely to be criticized.

So far:

1. Balls were checked before the game - everything in order
2. Balls were INFLATED at half-time to regulation.
3. Referees didn't notice anything unusual during the first half.

Meaning what?

They were tipped by the Colts that the balls were under inflated. Refs reexamined the balls and measured PSI at the half.



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What could have resulted in the under inflation in the first half? (There are 2.5 hours before kick off, giving ample time for tampering)

TheOutsider said:

Nothing will happen to Belichick except maybe a fine and outside chance of draft pick loss.Don't see how they are going to prove anything though.

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Well, if someone 'fessed to something or was caught on tape, that is certainly one way the NFL can prove something.

Peter King ‏@SI_PeterKing 2m2 minutes ago
RT @MrKnighton2u: If footballs were deflated by that amount, definitely cheating. Harder to fumble, easier to catch. Helps you throw further

Peter King ‏@SI_PeterKing 4m4 minutes ago
Adamantly disagree “every team does it,’’ as @MattLeinartQB says. Even if so, if Pats found guilty, cheating is cheating.Must be sanctioned.

Peter King ‏@SI_PeterKing 1m1 minute ago
RT @MattLeinartQB: Every Qb goes through the footballs days before game and handpick which ones they want! They take air out or put air in!

Peter King ‏@SI_PeterKing 42s43 seconds ago
I witnessed Steratore’s crew check air in every ball before a game in 2013, @MattLeinartQB. Every one left locker rm in ballbag at ….

Peter King ‏@SI_PeterKing 50s50 seconds ago
… proper inflated weight 2 minutes before start of game. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

If the league hammers the Pats and BB I hope he resigns and writes a tell-all book.

Let's REALLY let the world see the NFL's entire sausage making process.

Asked before but got no response to this.
Someone stated that the ball boys are employed by the league, not the team.
Can someone who uses Twitter and can reach the Schefters and Mort and Reiss' out there ask them to address this question?

Connecticut said:

What could have resulted in the under inflation in the first half? (There are 2.5 hours before kick off, giving ample time for tampering)

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A 20f temperature difference between indoor & outdoor. Multiple 18 man pile ups when the Patriots were on offense, which would squeeze air out of the ball.

ctpatsfan77 said:

So let me see if I've got this right . . .

The balls were supposedly properly inflated when the refs measured them before the game, but they were somehow deflated before halftime.

Simultaneously, the same referees who measured the balls before the game did not notice that the balls had become underinflated, but the Colts did?

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Yeah, I'm thinking the conversation went like this.

"Hey, no pressure, but if you didn't check the balls with a gauge your fired because it's your job. Now, did you check the balls with a gauge?"

Yeah, totally

"Are you sure you didn't just check with your hand and spot check the ones that seemed low? After all, you apparently couldn't tell while handling the ball during the game. And again, your fired if you say you only checked balls that felt low. Is that what you did?"

No way man, I totally checked them all With a gauge.