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Are you under the impression that at no time in the history of the NFL, a game was never once played with a football at 12.3 PSI? That in no time in history the weather conditions did not sap some air pressure out of the football?
This is an example of the media and the Patriots enemies inventing reality.
If all that happened was "NFL investigating how some footballs in the AFC Championship game were possibly below regulation" panned past the ESPN ticker, nobody, including everyone on this forum, would have thought anything of it, and this would not be a thread. Instead we got Bettis calling the team "felons," whats-his-face mustering fake tears on air, and everyone chiming in to lie about what an obvious advantage it was.
This was a hit job. Not a "story"
IMO the leak to Kravitz was intentional as he had a hard on for the Pats and they knew he would unleash his vitriol, the timing was everything in the middle of the night so we could all wake up to this news, Brady laughed initially and Belichick seemed surprised..
Then late Monday Night Mort released some info, followed by Peter Kings early Wednesday release...
All of this is planned and orchestrated, however do not think that they anticipated that the Pats would fight back with Kraft and Belichick blowing up their theories..
They will find something to save face, in my heart I hope they find that Indy was guilty of wrong doing and they take away their #1 pick and make them pick after the Patriots for the next draft..
If a bully steals your lunch money then you call him a thief. If you steal your money back its retribution.
However, if this does turn out to be provable, I think the punishment will come down to how far Kraft is prepared to go behind the scenes to push for severe retribution. He seems to be pretty damn mad, if his demeanor on the podium last Sunday is indication. Will that anger translate into a desire for retribution or will he use it for other purposes?
Robert Kraft said:I never thought another trophy could feel as special, but this one absolutely does!
Not just the apparent absence of due process (allowing the Patriots to see the putative evidence against them and to respond to it).
No, we are not. Colts started the rumor, Colts are being targeted.How is it stealing if it's your own property?
So if someone stole your $100, would you feel justified in going and stealing $100 from some other random person?
That's what we're talking about here.
No, we are not. Colts started the rumor, Colts are being targeted.
If the media has no bias, why have there been no press conferences over the Browns texting, Rice's remarks, or the Atlanta crowd noise?
What rumor?
To be fair, we don't know that that is(n't) happening.
As a case in point, the "video focusing on the ballboy" was furnished by the Patriots. They know what's on there.
Again, from the perspective of a journalist, what's been amazing about this story is the total lack of caution by the reporters covering it.
Good reporters live in constant terror of stories blowing up in their faces. That's why you don't run major breaking news stories based on a single unnamed source. Someone who tells a reporter something w/o attribution can easily have an agenda, knowing that if it turns out to be wrong, the reporter is going to take the heat, not the source.
People like Kravitz and Mortensen were incredibly reckless to run these stories. It's the journalistic equivalent of unsafe sex. To a lesser degree people like Ben Volin were making the same mistake when they let unnamed sources point a finger at Harbaugh.
With these scandals, you have to stand firm with sources and tell them: if you want to lob an accusation at someone, put your name on it. Unless you've checked the info six ways to Sunday, it's otherwise too big a risk, professionally to say nothing of morally, to accuse people in public without hard evidence. It's incredible that so many reporters got sucked into this.
To suggest that there's a cabal of media types who have it out for the Patriots is silly.
The entire story, which is all rumor to this point in time.
That depends upon what you consider "media types" I guess, but since they are given a microphone and asked to talk on behalf of some network or another, I'd consider guys like Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Merrill Hoge, Jerry Rice, et. al. to be "media types" and they do not exactly have a neutral/show me the evidence point of view on the Patriots.