Update; Kravitz Crying Mercy To Curran re: Baltz

SHOWTIME15 · Sep 18, 2015

1960Pats said:
Would that be considered an oxymoron?

heh, not all of us new yorkers are bad

hambone1818 · Sep 18, 2015

Baltz' claim is doubly suspect because he was the head linesman. His role had nothing to do with measuring the balls and handing them off to McNally, even in the three games they overlapped:

The Referee shall be the sole judge as to whether all balls offered for play comply with these specifications.

Referees, of which Walt Anderson is one, are tasked with gauging footballs and delivering them to the locker room attendant.

This is yet another example of lies and misinformation from biased sources meant to harm the Patriots reputation. Over and over again we've seen NFL personnel, opponents, and now a head linesman residing in Indy, lie and misinform the public, then when the truth is revealed--and the damage done--they say 'whatever'.

I thought it was over and done with after the Berman ruling, that the Pats would get a lot of crap from fans and idiot commentators but the sniping and accusations were over. Ten days later--after those bogus ESPN and SI articles, the headset nonsense, D-line shift, Brady's hand signals, and now this BS--I think the Pats have to come out with a statement. Enough of this nonsense, enough of these LIES. Let the men play football and the coaches coach, quit the whining, *****ing and lying and admit the better team, the better coached team, has been running circles around the rest of the league fair and square!

Patsfanin Philly · Sep 18, 2015

Deus Irae said:
Kravitz still won't admit that he screwed up in running with the story, I see.

He's auditioning for ESPN....

borg · Sep 18, 2015

Incredible how some adults refuse to learn from their past mistakes. Even my dog learned to stop running into the glass door.
I have a theory regarding the rash of journalist misconduct perpetrated by certain elderly "reporters"......ageism. These old codgers are dinosaurs in their industry battling internal demons of obsolescence. They are desperate to retain relevance and some are willing to cross certain lines to demonstrate usefulness. When the NFL and its surrogates need to disseminate farcical/illogical/corrupt quick strikes against an enemy....who are their go-to-guys who won't ask a lot of unwanted questions.....hello Kravitz. The NFL acts like a con man who steels from an elderly person's retirement account.......no scruples what so ever. And Kravitz reminds me of Morty Seinfeld trying to stay in the raincoat game.

flasox27 · Sep 18, 2015

farn said:
Now that Brady is free to play and that I've resigned myself to the fact that losing a first round pick once or twice a decade is the price of having BB coach my fav team - things are better.

Maybe if we had an owner that didn't give them away, we wouldn't pay this price. Nevermind, I am not being realistic since the good of the League comes first.

Zeus · Sep 18, 2015

My suspiscion is that what kravitz did here parallels Don Van Natta. Find somebody with an axe to grind against the Patirots and have them relate a 10 year old anecdote that has grown ever more distant from the truth with each retelling on a day by day basis.

1960Pats · Sep 18, 2015

TommyBrady12 said:
heh, not all of us new yorkers are bad

That's true. My aunt Helen, uncle Joe and cousins Joey, Tommy and Ronnie were also examples.

RobertWeathers · Sep 18, 2015

1960Pats said:
Would that be considered an oxymoron?

Ha. Krapitz is an insult to New Yorkers

TriplecHamp · Sep 18, 2015

Kravitz, Mortensen, [INSERT FORMER DISGRACED ESPN MEDIA MEMBER HERE]= Judith Miller, fed a bunch of lies, running with agenda driven stories etc. etc. They ought to be called out by more media members because the credibility of what they do and report all takes a hit when its this blatant.

Gumby · Sep 18, 2015

hambone1818 said:
Baltz' claim is doubly suspect because he was the head linesman. His role had nothing to do with measuring the balls and handing them off to McNally, even in the three games they overlapped:

The Referee shall be the sole judge as to whether all balls offered for play comply with these specifications.

Referees, of which Walt Anderson is one, are tasked with gauging footballs and delivering them to the locker room attendant.

....re!

Actually, this is one part of the Balts line of BS insinuations and made up recollections that doesn't NECESSARILY ring untrue. Yes, that is what the rule book says, but it also says the balls have to be from 12.5-13.5. How did those 16 psi balls at jester land get on the field?
When folks first started looking at the ball procedures after the AFCCG. There were a couple of stories that mentioned that EACH ref team had its own process and different guys who checked the balls - that sometimes the referee delegated it.

All that said, there is enough lies that you can dismiss the allegation.

Also, more to the point of him being the head linesman, if he was going to complain to the nfl ... Wouldn't you think he would have to go THRU his own team lead-the referee. How come no one has queried the one or two guys who were Baltz's immediate supervisor over the years in question on this subject?... Never mind, we know why...truth is not the objective!

Joker · Sep 18, 2015

Slob Krudditz...

Reckedtrek · Sep 18, 2015

It is fun watching these cowards squirm under pressure. Thank god for guys like Curran are taking it to the next level! Get in the ring, mutha F!

Wax Frog · Sep 18, 2015

This is *almost* enough to make me want to get into Twitter. Sic 'em, Tom, sic 'em!

ctpatsfan77 · Sep 18, 2015

1960Pats said:
Would that be considered an oxymoron?

More like a moron on oxy.

robbomango · Sep 18, 2015

The accusers have become worse than the accused...

From Harbaugh's whining about legal formations, to the Steelers screaming about headsets, to the masses of people demanding the franchise be burned to the ground over "Possibly slightly deflated footballs", to big stories based on suspicion and jealousy, to people like Kravitz dragging a low level ball boys name through the mud.

It's all pretty disgusting.

turkeyneck · Sep 18, 2015

ctpatsfan77 said:
More like a moron on oxy.

That would be Irsay...

The Gr8est · Sep 18, 2015

hambone1818 said:
Baltz' claim is doubly suspect because he was the head linesman. His role had nothing to do with measuring the balls and handing them off to McNally, even in the three games they overlapped:

The Referee shall be the sole judge as to whether all balls offered for play comply with these specifications.

Referees, of which Walt Anderson is one, are tasked with gauging footballs and delivering them to the locker room attendant.

This is yet another example of lies and misinformation from biased sources meant to harm the Patriots reputation. Over and over again we've seen NFL personnel, opponents, and now a head linesman residing in Indy, lie and misinform the public, then when the truth is revealed--and the damage done--they say 'whatever'.

I thought it was over and done with after the Berman ruling, that the Pats would get a lot of crap from fans and idiot commentators but the sniping and accusations were over. Ten days later--after those bogus ESPN and SI articles, the headset nonsense, D-line shift, Brady's hand signals, and now this BS--I think the Pats have to come out with a statement. Enough of this nonsense, enough of these LIES. Let the men play football and the coaches coach, quit the whining, *****ing and lying and admit the better team, the better coached team, has been running circles around the rest of the league fair and square!

Whatever statements the Pats make need to be delivered by their lawyers. Enough of these baseless accusations with no consequences for the accusers.

DaBruinz · Sep 18, 2015

I replied to Kravitz and told him he should just be a man and admit to the fact that he didn't vette his source properly..

Brock Samson · Sep 18, 2015

The timing of Baltz's comments has at least one person raising an eyebrow and that person is ex-NFL supervisor of officials Jim Daopoulos.

In an interview with Comcast SportsNet, Daopoulos defended McNally.

"In all my years working with locker-room attendants, Jim McNally, without a doubt, is probably one of the most professional of all the locker-room attendants in the National Football League," Daopoulos said. "And that can be attested by all the officials working in the National Football League. I really don't know what Mark's agenda is right here."

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...cious-ex-ref-questions-agenda-concerning-pats

lol @ a bunch of middle-aged simpletons pretending that gossip is the same thing as journalism and can't fact-check their way out of a paper bag.

Wordsmyth · Sep 18, 2015

Canuck said:
As awful as deflategate was, it might have resulted in a beneficial side effect. It put the spotlight on all the flimsy evidence, lies, propaganda, innuendo, etc that have been hurled at the Patriots. Now such acts are met with a rigorous defence. They are now being fact checked. Even Belichick has opened up and denounced articles that were untrue. The NFL has even come to the defense of the Patriots about headset malfunctions. Thanks to Brady for fighting for justice and what was right and not rolling over for Goodell and his propaganda machine.

Steady applause. You vociferated my thoughts to the letter. Well played, sir.

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