Interesting that he admits he was fed wrong info
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
Peter King retweeted
Ben’s right. In trying to confirm Mort story, I was told it was true. It obviously wasn’t. Believe to this day>>>
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
<<<that person who confirmed believed it to be true, but that doesn’t make the reporting of it right. The story was wrong. It’s my error.
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
<<<Covering the NFL, or any large enterprise, means you develop trust in people who have told you the truth consistently.>>>>
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
<<<This is just another reason why, especially in a story like this one, you can’t take people’s words at face value.
He is talking about his own article
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/01/23/deflategate-patriots-super-bowl-xlix
And Steph Stradley calls the report out from peter king in her email chain
http://abovethelaw.com/2015/08/a-deflategate-email-exchange-part-ii/
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
Peter King retweeted
Ben’s right. In trying to confirm Mort story, I was told it was true. It obviously wasn’t. Believe to this day>>>
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
<<<that person who confirmed believed it to be true, but that doesn’t make the reporting of it right. The story was wrong. It’s my error.
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
<<<Covering the NFL, or any large enterprise, means you develop trust in people who have told you the truth consistently.>>>>
Peter King @SI_PeterKing 1h1 hour ago
<<<This is just another reason why, especially in a story like this one, you can’t take people’s words at face value.
He is talking about his own article
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/01/23/deflategate-patriots-super-bowl-xlix
Even peter king was fed the wrong info.The condition of the footballs on Sunday is coming into clarity.
FROM ANGER TO NO BIG DEAL
Most NFL coaches and GMs are in Alabama for the Senior Bowl, seemingly a million miles from the epicenter of Deflategate. Greg Bedard found the sentiment decidedly mixed over the severity of a possible Patriots offense.
FULL STORY
This is significant, because it takes weather-as-a-factor out of the possible reasons why New England’s footballs could have lost air while the balls on Indianapolis’ sidelines would have stayed fully inflated. I am told reliably that
- The 12 footballs used in the first half for New England, and the 12 footballs used by the Colts, all left the officials’ locker room before the game at the prescribed pressure level of between 12.5 pounds per square inch and 13.5 psi.
All 24 footballs were checked by pressure gauge at halftime. I am told either 11 or 12 of New England’s footballs (ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported it was 11, and I hear it could have been all 12) had at least two pounds less pressure in them. All 12 Indianapolis footballs were at the prescribed level.
And Steph Stradley calls the report out from peter king in her email chain
http://abovethelaw.com/2015/08/a-deflategate-email-exchange-part-ii/
If I were Commissioner Goodell, my clothes wouldn't fit right, that's for sure.
I think my hypothetical Goodell-Me time machine would have to go back further than the AFC Championship game. To the beginning of the time that Goodell became commissioner. And walking back his desire to make sports leagues into Nancy Gracey justice hammers: very reactive to initial leaks, mob anger, giving lip service to but not really interested in fair process or claims of innocence.
And go back to focusing more on the NFL's core business, which is football.
If you don't think that happened in this situation, check out the tone of this Peter King MMQB article after the initial VERY WRONG leaks happened.
"I am told reliably that...." NOPE!
By then it was already labelled a -Gate.
(King has apologized about that story now, and many others ran with stories that were similar, but millions of dollars later, here we are in federal court over a disputed equipment tampering claim).