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Anyone catch what they said on NBC nightly news? Costas, of all people actually did not make a bad point with what he said. This would not be a big deal if it were someone not at the level of Brady, and that if it did happpen, it was nothing more than "gamesmanship"
Colts and former Jet employees make an assertion, and a four-month with hunt ensues to find something, anything.
Said investigation was reportedly supposed to include anecdotal evidence from other teams.
One would think that would include talks with the Vikings and Panthers (who placed footballs in heaters to alter the psi), or with an NFL starting quarterback (Aaron Rodgers) who stated that he liked "to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it".
The NFL's hypocrisy in the handling of this issue is so thick that you can't cut it with a knife - it would take a tungsten needle.
Meanwhile nobody outside New England brings up the fact that a softer football may be easier to grip, but a heavier football will travel through the air further and more accurately.
Meanwhile nobody outside New England brings up the fact that a football that 12.5-13.5 psi were standards of standardization brought forth decades ago - and not something that was used because higher or lower than that would give a team a competitive advantage.
Meanwhile nobody outside New England bothers to think that piped-in artificial crowd noise gives a team a very measurable competitive advantage, as the opposing offense is unable to hear the play call, audibles, or the snap.
Meanwhile nobody outside New England bothers to notice that the head of the competition committee - the one group that can actually influence rules, the way a game is called, and therefore the game itself - is headed by the president of the very same team that was caught piping in fake crowd noise - and got off with a slap on the wrist.
Meanwhile nobody outside New England questions the oft-repeated comment that Kraft and Goodell are good friends - despite the fact that Goodell wanted Robert Reynolds to be the league's commissioner, and was literally the last owner to begrudgingly give in only when he knew he was fighting a losing cause.
Meanwhile nobody outside New England questions the dozens of leaks from Park Avenue that shed the Patriots in a bad light, or doubt their veracity. They also fail to notice that Kraft's demand for an apology was not just for the accusation, but for that damning sway of public opinion.
Meanwhile nobody outside of New England notices that in light of the above, Goodell's standard of punishment is based on the amount of public reaction to an event. Ray Rice, two games. Oops, a video became public? Ray Rice, I changed my mind; an indefinite suspension.
The list continues - don't get me started on Mike Kensil or the proliferation of former Jets in the NFL' league office - but I think you get the point.