In the end the fact remains that this thread isn't about whether the Colts were trying to gain an advantage back when they did this. OF COURSE they were. So were the other 31 teams back then in one way or another.
No, this thread was about just pointing out ANOTHER example of the blatant hypocrisy of the NFL league office, Rodger Goodell and his NYJ cronies, and jealous ownership groups that led the bogus witchhunt also known as "framegate".
Middle school science has long since proven that NOTHING happened that AFCCG in January of 2015. This fact has being backed up by MULTIPLE Nobel laureates.
So the fact that even when most mediots acknowledge the ridiculousness of the charges, it is extremely frustrating when they rarely fail to add a qualifier to their condemnation of the league, as if to say "Brady should have been found not guilty of the charge, but that doesn't mean something fishy wasn't going on".
And when that happens I scream at the screen that
"No! It's been PROVEN that nothing "fishy" had EVER gone on.
But its to no avail. Brady has been permanently slandered and so have the Patriots organization.....AND its fans.
When the "big lie" gets a chance to fester, you can eventually wash out most of it when the truth comes out, but some the stink of the lie still remains. How else can you explain how so many people can so casually dismiss global warming, or even evolution?
Ken,
There are two groups of people who reject nearly unanimous scientific consensus.
1. Those who find it in their own self-interest to reject the conclusion.
2. Those who are skeptical there will ever be a clear answer to conflicting scientific opinions and therefore typically reject everything and damn both sides of the argument (in the case of Brady...hey,
something must have been going on, and I'm not reading a 1,000 page arcane report that is still being debated.)
The problem with the latter group, which contains the vast majority of people, and the similarities between Climate Change and Defamegate, is that in both cases the well was already poisoned before that clear scientific conclusion emerged. Climate Change was for many years a hotly contested topic, even though we now know in its early years much of the "science" denying it was fully funded by people who fall into category 1, those who reject it for their own self-interest (oil companies, etc.) In Defamegate, most people remember the misguided understanding of the Ideal Gas Laws, including blatant mathematical errors from pop culture scientists, expert football players proclaiming they knew the difference in 0.1 PSI (we now know this to be absurd), faulty reports on the actual ball numbers, and of course, the Wells Report itself, whose conclusions were at best a gigantic, error-filled reach and more accurately, pseudo-science. The ultimate conclusion, when you peel away all the layers of the onion is this: the Patriots balls were, at worst, under-inflated by about 0.3 PSI on average. Even that conclusion is based on assumed measurements, incorrect applications of math, and the "worst case scenario" of the mathematical probability spectrum. If you accept those findings, you'd have to also accept the Patriots actually deflated the footballs by 0.3 PSI, not 2.0-3.0 PSI. Of course that 0.3 PSI can be accounted for by either (a) the very likely account that such a smaller number was in fact part of the errors in measurement/variation, and/or (b) the 0.3 PSI is accounted for by Walt Anderson's own testimony that the needle he used was different by approximately 0.3 PSI from the other one (Dr. Blecker has already covered this.)
But even at the ends of this science, where only a fool would not have a clear opinion, there is too much reading and logic involved for many people who see scientists pointing fingers at each other, unaware of the level of collusion and lies from the NFL offices, and unwilling to believe the NFL would want to purposely damage its brand (underestimating the pettiness and flawed humanity of the NFL office.) I do think that the great majority of sports fans now believe the NFL was biased, extreme, and unfair to Brady, but I don't think they gotten yet to the point of realizing this entire scandal was manufactured intentionally at every stage, beginning with fake ball pressure numbers.
I say this as someone who for years was just tired of the Climate Change arguments and felt "hey, both sides seem to really they are right with equal conviction and seem to have the science to back it up, so I'm staying out of it." Hopefully, like Climate Change, one day people will care as much about a stupid, overblown sports scandal, to revisit it and realize how one-sided the conclusions are.
