Where's the punishment for colts illegally gauging the Pats football?

The Gr8est said:

Actually tampering with the ball is not a problem, being rumored to be tampering with the balls is where the NFL* draws the line.

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To be fair, if the NFL tested every complaint, that's $5 million dollars and six months of suspense per event.

I sometimes wish I had $5 million dollars so I could test if heating footballs can inflate air pressure to illegal levels, to simulate what at least two teams did all game long earlier this same season, which the NFL knew about and did not fine. Too bad such a test is almost impossible to recreate, given the cold and wet weather conditions in the game.

Oh, and then I'd put the remaining $4.99 million in the bank.

JMC00 said:

“Once the game starts, neither team is allowed to gauge the footballs, pump them, or the like. That is solely the province of the referee, who is to be the ‘sole judge’ of whether footballs comply,” the Patriots wrote. “The Colts, with advance concerns about psi, did not take the issue to the referee. They took the matter into their own hands and had an intern gauge the football. (pg. 63) This conduct was in violation of Rule 2. Nowhere does the Report identify this conduct as a violation of the Rule.”

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It's being handled by the same guy who is still looking into whether or not the Colts purposefully threw games in an effort to Suck for Luck

@eom @Dr Pain @VectorPrime and @ViperGTS we should do a campaign to underscore this sinister aspect of deflategate...

So many foul things are going on with the NFL... it reeks of corruption. The public needs to know and ought to know

I thought after the pick, the ball was put out of play as the guy was keeping it. Is everyone saying that a ball out of play can't be measured?

Not to sound stupid but what exactly does "gauging" a football mean? And why are we hearing about this violation now?

patriot1136 said:

Not to sound stupid but what exactly does "gauging" a football mean? And why are we hearing about this violation now?

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Sticking a pressure gauge into the ball. You are not hearing about it just now it's has been known for months that colts did this and then the it was brought up again when the Pats put out the "wells report in context."

Someone should come up with a list of all the injustices that have surrounded this whole thing. The colts not being punished for breaking this rule should go right on there.

Irsay gave the NFL office some oxys....they are big these days i guess

This is just one example of many why Brady will be easily able to prove in Federal court that the league's discipline has been biased, arbitrary and capricious.

His case will hinge on matters of law as to whether the league is ALLOWED to be biased, arbitrary and capricious.

The NFL will not do anything, as the Colts are a little fish in the big pond, and ESPN does not care. they only go after the big dudes or the teams that ESPN really cares about

But Colts are reveling in the fact that they only lost 45-7.... a great accomplishment.

JMC00 said:

Sticking a pressure gauge into the ball. You are not hearing about it just now it's has been known for months that colts did this and then the it was brought up again when the Pats put out the "wells report in context."

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Which footballs were they checking and why?

patriot1136 said:

Which footballs were they checking and why?

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Seriously? Where the hell have you been living the past 6 months?

patriot1136 said:

Which footballs were they checking and why?

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This is from the Wells report. If below is true then the Colts should have been investigated to discover who was deflating the Patriots balls in the previous game as it was at Indy and the home team is responsible for making sure the balls are legal. It was all a canard to try to trap the Pats.

Colts linebacker D‟Qwell Jackson intercepted a pass thrown by Tom Brady. Following
the interception upon reaching the sideline, Jackson handed the ball to David Thornton, the Colts
Director of Player Engagement, near the Colts bench and Thornton immediately handed the ball
to Assistant Equipment Manager Brian Seabrooks. According to Seabrooks, he believed that the
ball felt similar to the footballs intercepted by Mike Adams during the Colts game against the
Patriots earlier in the season, so he asked one of the team‟s equipment interns to locate a pressure
gauge and test the inflation level of the intercepted ball. The intern used a digital pressure gauge
similar to the gauge used by the Colts to set their footballs before the game, and reported that the
pressure measured approximately 11 psi. Seabrooks then walked with the intercepted football to
Equipment Manager Sean Sullivan, who squeezed the ball and agreed that it felt soft.
These concerns were brought by Colts equipment personnel to the attention of a
game official on the Colts sideline who was not responsive.

PatriotsReign said:

We can do whatever we want to do because we're...THE NFL

Sincerely,
THE NFL

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There is no Cabal...says the Cabal.

So there is direct evidence the colts tampered but no evidence the pats tampered.

Chiuba E. Obele said:

@eom @Dr Pain @VectorPrime and @ViperGTS we should do a campaign to underscore this sinister aspect of deflategate...

So many foul things are going on with the NFL... it reeks of corruption. The public needs to know and ought to know

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You should start a website - integrityofthegame.com or some such. Put all of league shadiness in there, not just Pats stuff - bountygate, ray rice etc. Also create a section for suspicious referee decisions, etc. It will be a hit across all fanbases.

Observer said:

You should start a website - integrityofthegame.com or some such. Put all of league shadiness in there, not just Pats stuff - bountygate, ray rice etc. Also create a section for suspicious referee decisions, etc. It will be a hit across all fanbases.

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just want to make sure you saw this: yourteamcheats.com

Not everything you suggest but part of it.

The Colts or Ravens were never involved in the investigation at all. No request for phones or texts. This was a one sided smear campaign from the moment TB uttered the words "They should study the rule book". It still angers me to no end, that they are getting away with it. And Kraft crumbling like saltine just saddens me. Please, please take them to court and expose these lying, thieving, low lifes. Front page news for all the mislead idiots to see

PatSunday said:

1) Are you implying that if a ball pump or gauge was found on the Pats sidelines, instead of the Colts, the finding would be part of the punishment from the Wells report?

2) My favorite new point in the recent weeks is that the teams and players agreed to the NFL standard that evidence for one conclusion should outweigh evidence of the opposite conclusion. Instead, Wells applied "more probable than not, since we don't have direct evidence", which is quite different and focuses on the little evidence that something could possible happen than the tons of evidence showing it didn't.

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Great sig.

Lavictoire said:

So there is direct evidence the colts tampered but no evidence the pats tampered.

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Also video evidence of the Panthers/Vikings tampering. No evidence the Pats did anything. What a joke.