(Merged x3) It's All Happening!!! PFT Now Blames The NFL For Tarnishing The PATS Image

Yesterday was our D-Day. Belichick, our own General Patton, led the charge, and now the enemy is on the run and victory is near.

God bless you Bill Belichick

Shady M'Fers in the NFL front office. Hopefully, Kraft now understands that he has no friends there and these people can't be trusted. We probably will never know if any of this is true. Regardless these guys are shady backstabbers.

Would the NFL really allow a sting to occur during one of its Championship games? Having a hard time wrapping my head around that decision.

Unbelievable story - one of the strangest & most convoluted set of circumstances.............can't find the words
BB stands out.......He is the star of this drama

I thought there was some additional revelation about a rift between Brady and the Patriots, that's what I didn't see.

shmessy said:

You don't see that?

10 balls at 11.5 Psi.

1 ball at 10.5 (the ball that the Colts intercepted and had on their sideline before eventually transferring custody to the league).

Mortensen wrote that EACH of the 11 balls that Blount had NOT tossed into the crowd post his TD were 2 psi below standard.

Chris Mortensen @mortreport · Jan 20
NFL has found that 11 of the Patriots footballs used in Sunday’s AFC title game were under-inflated by 2 lbs each, per league sources.


Florio confirming from his source, after others had it up, that only ONE was 2 psi below standard.

Mort is D-O-N-E.

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Hoodie said:

I thought there was some additional revelation about a rift between Brady and the Patriots, that's what I didn't see.

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That is probably not true either. Don't trust the Mediots.

Dr Pain said:

I don't think the NFL has told the Patriots and BB squat. They saw the PSI was lower and chanted we have them.

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and I think they didn't have ANY idea that weather, atmospheric pressure, temp etc. could have an affect on the psi in the ball. they saw the measurement and thought "we got 'em" and let loose the hounds. And they did it because they hate Belichick and never stopped to think there might be another cause.

robertweathers said:

Based on his credentials, Goodell should never have been hired in the first place.



There are some corporations that are awful. There are some that are actually fiscally and ethically responsible. The fact that the NFL is in such a compromised and discombobulated state is due to a lack of leadership.

Goodell is out of his depth. He doesn't have the leadership, management, operational, political or organizational skills to right this ship and lead it. He needs to go. Plain and simple.

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His main credential was that he was someone the owners trusted and felt they could push around.

I think they thought of him as an Administrator, not someone with the management and media skills the job really requires. They hired him because they thought that they, who are themselves mainly a combination of wealthy, entrepreneur founders of their own businesses and the beneficiaries of inherited wealth who have been used to getting their way since childhood, would know and be able to tell him what to do when the going got tough...NOT!

He was probably up to the basic job that they thought they were hiring him to do: keep the trains running on time, get the CBA and TV contracts negotiated and shovel the cash their way, courtesy of the League's anti-trust exemption.

But, there was nothing in his background that suggested he would be able to manage crises, ranging from domestic violence to head trauma to labor disputes with Officials to the media running wild and destroying the reputation of teams and individuals. He is so clearly completely over his head that it is painful to watch.

The owners were completely out to lunch as to the profile of the kind of person who would properly fit the profile of the leader of a multi-billion dollar entertainment enterprise. They hired a caretaker when they should have been looking for someone with strong political and media skills. He is a complete disaster and I suspect that some of them have figured that out.

Deus Irae said:

Football is a sport. The NFL is a business.

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Agreed. Further: Sport + NFL Corporate + A Business That Gets Huge Income via broadcast Television Networks = Entertainment
There just isn't way to get around it. The NFL product is entertainment as much as a sport (not that you said otherwise).

Mediatanic has already sunk. Now the NFLburg is up and flames and going down!




"OH, THE HUMANITY!!!!!"

Boomer B said:

Yesterday was our D-Day. Belichick, our own General Patton, led the charge, and now the enemy is on the run and victory is near.

God bless you Bill Belichick

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Not to rain on you but Patton was left at home(In real England) for D-Day. He slapped a soldier and was being disciplined. It actually worked for US. Hiltler thought America will not be that stupid to leave Patton at home for such a major invasion and miscalculated.
How was that for taking your mind off deflategate? You are welcome.

Huh. So I go to ESPN (always know what the enemy is saying) and they have NOTHING about the story except for the Bill Nye video, which will probably be down soon. Their lead story is hockey!! ESPN hasn't given a crap about non-Stanley Cup hockey since the 90's.

Someone is trying to bury things...

Does anyone think a Congressman might demand an investigation into it?.............Can I exhale now?

blackglass3 said:

Huh. So I go to ESPN (always know what the enemy is saying) and they have NOTHING about the story except for the Bill Nye video, which will probably be down soon. Their lead story is hockey!! ESPN hasn't given a crap about non-Stanley Cup hockey since the 90's.

Someone is trying to bury things...

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Of course they are trying to bury it. They lied and they know it was a lie. Bi!ch .... media. And you guys wonder why I don't trust them. I loath those people.

Jim Irsay @JimIrsay · 7m7 minutes ago
We congratulate The Patriots as AFC Champions. We knew the difficulties of going to New England and did not overcome the obstacles we faced.

Jim Irsay @JimIrsay · 3m3 minutes ago
Our rivalry with The Pats is something we treasure in the depths of our competitive soul,where the fire burns hot. We look forward to 2015.

Apparently according to Schefter the NFL is still mad and the focus of their attention is on Brady.

vuudu said:

Not to rain on you but Patton was left at home for D-Day. He slapped a soldier and was being disciplined. It actually worked for US. Hiltler thought America will not be that stupid to leave Patton at home for such a major invasion and miscalculated.
How was that for taking your mind of deflategate? You are welcome.

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I'm Canadian! But yes, you are right, I have read much about General Patton and knew he was disciplined for slapping a soldier.

But if i'm gonna use a World War 2 analogy, BB's gotta be General Patton!

JMC00 said:

Apparently according to Schefter the NFL is still mad and the focus of their attention is on Brady.

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Yeah right. I don't believe that either.
EDIT: Somebody has to take the fall for this, it might as well be Brady.

SoxPatsFaninIndy said:

Jim Irsay @JimIrsay · 7m7 minutes ago
We congratulate The Patriots as AFC Champions. We knew the difficulties of going to New England and did not overcome the obstacles we faced.

Jim Irsay @JimIrsay · 3m3 minutes ago
Our rivalry with The Pats is something we treasure in the depths of our competitive soul,where the fire burns hot. We look forward to 2015.

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**** you. You piece of ****.

SoxPatsFaninIndy said:

Jim Irsay @JimIrsay · 7m7 minutes ago
We congratulate The Patriots as AFC Champions. We knew the difficulties of going to New England and did not overcome the obstacles we faced.

Jim Irsay @JimIrsay · 3m3 minutes ago
Our rivalry with The Pats is something we treasure in the depths of our competitive soul,where the fire burns hot. We look forward to 2015.

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Translation: Crap, we've been rumbled erm...congratulations? Now please make it go away!

JMC00 said:

Apparently according to Schefter the NFL is still mad and the focus of their attention is on Brady.

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Nothing on Twitter about that, and Schefter himself Tweeted 5 minutes ago and it wasn't Patriot related and a search of his name reveals nobody relaying that news either.