That's nice, but it's also not exactly apples to apples. There's a (IMHO) a big difference between submitting some overinflated balls to the refs and hoping they miss them when they do the pre-game testing (which that clip would appear to refer to) and screwing with the balls after they've been submitted to the refs (which is what NE has been accused of doing).
(And I say that's what they've been accused of doing because it's only screwing with the balls after submitting them that's subject to a penalty, so there's not any point to investigating NE for submitting underinflated balls to the refs -- it's the refs' job to inflate to spec any submitted underinflated balls during pre-game prep.)
I disgree here.
The league is RESPONDING TO A COMPLAINT by Irsay. So they are required to investigate.
No one with credibility and knowledge of the investigation has stated that it has reached the point where the NFL suspects the Patriots of taking air out of the ball.
What has been stated is that they are investigating the entire process from whether the referees handled the balls properly pre-game up through whether the ball was not regulation and how that occurred.
People are jumping to conclusions that it is an investigation of whether the Patriots cheated, because that is the viable news story.
To say that the NFL is investigating if the referees did not properly check the air pressure in the balls before the game which clearly is the first point of the investigation, doesn't earn clicks.
The fringe media and the Patriot haters have escalated this to already concluding facts that are not confirmed, including:
-The refs properly handled the balls, pregame. (The NFL is on record saying they are checking into that)
-The ball actually was deflated below the allowable limit
-The weather was not the cause
-The Patriots had an employee who had access to removing air from the ball without scrutiny
Let's not help the haters, and believe the conclusions they are jumping to.
