By the way for the Kraft-bashers amongst us...
No he's not disbanding the team or taking it to the new Kraft Football League. But he went about as far as he could. I'm actually loving the Kraft statement and hating the report.
Yes, group together everything you've got, fling some poo at Brady, hire the analysts who concluded that cigarettes don't hurt you, tie it up with a pretty bow, and you've got 99% of fans including 50% of Pats Fans saying "yeahhhhh smoke, fire, you know the deal."
But also keep in mind that this is the science-guys firm that said where there's smoke there's
not cancer or emphysema
Sirrously... I
can't tell you I "know" everything that happened. Reading this stuff is a continual invitation to speculate. I have a speculation-based theory and it's not a bunch of cupcakes and unicorns for TFB either. I am sure
(I have been invited to speculate and am obliging) that TFB popped a gasket or two in his time screaming "GODDAMMIT THAT BALL FELT LIKE A WATERMELON." By the way I haven't gotten to the part where they explain the texts saying the refs inflated one to 16... 2.5 psi
above regulation. This despite reliance on texts between these 2 low-level guys.
What I can tell you is that this report constitutes pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining.
They don't know, and the difference is, they're pretending that they do. They're paying a consultant to bolster that claim. They're dealing with "probably" and "maybe" and throwing out 2/3 of the Colts' balls in the "physical evidence."
And oh yeah, how'd that second half go when the balls were "whatever the Colts said was good"?
This is going to make 2007 look like chickensh1t.