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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.What SHOULD eat the living **** out of those inbred fans, is the utterly shameful capitulation of an entire SEASON to gain the competitive advantage of drafting pick number 1. And yet they have the audacity to point fingers at the Pats regarding "integrity of the game".
1) We know the Colts GM told NFL VP, and the VP told the officials, to watch out for tampering with balls the day before. The referees knew about this. Officials did not notice or report anything suspicious before or during the game. No complaints the balls "went missing without permission."
2) The Colts equipment guy, on the very first interception, brought the ball to the NFL VP's. The defensive player who intercepted Brady went out of his way to say on record that he did not notice anything weird about the ball. The Colts equipment guy just brought the ball to the NFL VP's as soon as he could.
3) Finally, the Colt GM lied to a Colts reporter the Patriots footballs, and only Patriots footballs, had an unexplained loss of ball pressure below minimum as revenge for getting humiliated 45-7.
That's fine. The Colts GM tried to sabotage their opponent before, during, and after the AFC game, as well as for months after.
But what about the NFL?
At half-time, the referees recorded measurements that indicated all footballs were below minimum except one Colts and Patriots football. The Patriots footballs more-so, but they also started lower according to the same officials. And the measurements for each ball fluctuated 1/2 PSI just minutes apart with different gauges.
Before the AFC game ended, Goodell and NFL had the facts that the majority of footballs for both teams were deflated below the minimum psi. Instead, he guided Ted Wells to focus on the Patriots footballs only.
Worse than that, he did not refute the endless distractions that lasted the entire first week of Super Bowl preparation, such that Patriots coaches had to research and hold many press conferences around rumors multiple times, all by themselves, while preparing for the defending Super Bowl Champions Seahawks.
That's why Kraft wanted an apology -- not because there's an investigation, but because he knew the NFL had the facts but was dragging the Patriots name in the mud during the Super Bowl and the next months by not making any comments.