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BSPN can #InflateThis
What a joke
If ESPN keeps it up, someone that works there is going to get hurt.
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What a joke
During ESPN's OTL, Adam Shefter called into the program with more details. Mike Loyko gives his Twitter accounting of what he saw on OTL.
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 6m6 minutes ago
.@AdamSchefter report on OTL just DESTROYED ALL THE OTL reporting and basically points the finger at the OFFICIALs
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 6m6 minutes ago
League Official was supposed to handle balls and send one off to a charitible enterprise. League Official stole balls and was fired from NFL
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 6m6 minutes ago
League Officials 2 Noticed that Balls were missing went back to the locker room got different balls and gave them to Jim MacNally..
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 5m5 minutes ago
All this is on tape according to @AdamSchefter .. basically the League Officials are going to come out F'D in all this
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 4m4 minutes ago
Per @AdamSchefter after the game balls are checked Official 1 takes the balls and brings them around for "charitible endevores for the NFL
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 4m4 minutes ago
Turns out that Official 1 took some of those balls for himself before AFC Championship Game.. Official 2 then notices that there are balls..
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 4m4 minutes ago
Missing so he goes back to the LR to get new game balls and gives those to Jim McNally.. NFL Has fired League Official #1 already.. and all
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 4m4 minutes ago
this is caught on tape.
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 3m3 minutes ago
@AdamSchefter just poured gasoline all over OTL, @bkravitz , ESPN, @mortreport and lit the match himself.
Mike Loyko @NEPD_Loyko 3m3 minutes ago
.@AdamSchefter has stayed so quiet on DeflateGate, it's like he finally said F it.
Now hopefully all the girly-men in here will stop feeling anxiety over such an insignificant incident!
Time to man-up and just let it go.
Pats Pulpit said:ESPN's Adam Schefter is reporting that the NFL has fired an official from the AFC Championship Game for stealing one of the footballs and attempting to sell it. A second ref noticed this during the game.
Schefter also reports that Jim McNally, the attendant supposedly tagged for "trying to introduce an unapproved football", was provided the footballs by two league employees. One of these employees was fired.
SI's Michael McCann makes an interesting point:
Michael McCann @McCannSportsLaw 5m5 minutes ago
@bobbyslots4 @AaronNagler If an NFL official sold football that's at issue in investigation of NFL team, investigation has been compromised.
I just really don't care what the NFL does anymore. Winning the Superbowl used up all the craps I had to give.
What gets me is that apparently, the big deal about this latest story is shenanigans by the officials, yet ESPN spun it as some sort of smoking gun about the Dirty Lying Liar Pats. **** em. **** em all.If the genesis of this entire thing is a ref stealing balls and the NFL let the Pats twist in the wind like this with no proof then I don't know how anyone can take the NFL seriously.
It does make it seem as though what goes on on the sidelines is total chaos, and that's on the NFL.
It appears that the marking of the footballs served its purpose. Errant footballs were not introduced
OK, so the leak about the league official being fired….was that one of the guys on our side? Is that our counter-leak?