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This is ridiculous.

What kind of advantage would it be to deflate footballs?

They are "easier to grip" for one team, but not the other?

If Andrew Luck or any other IND Colt/coach would have had a problem with the ball at any time, they would've brought it to the refs' attention. I highly doubt they'd have waited until the end of the game to say something.
 
Lol...really
 
All due respect KD, I wish this wasn't even a thread (no offense to you, personally).

I don't want to see mis-information being spread around due to haters being haters (not you).
 
Who is that clown?

Meh, doesn't matter, because we're on to Arizona and his team isn't.
 
http://www.nfl.com/rulebook/ball

The home club shall have 36 balls for outdoor games and 24 for indoor games available for testing with a pressure gauge by the referee two hours prior to the starting time of the game to meet with League requirements.

Who controls the balls after this ? Did the Patriots not provide a pressure gauge ?
 
All due respect KD, I wish this wasn't even a thread (no offense to you, personally).

I don't want to see mis-information being spread around due to haters being haters (not you).
I dont know who this guy is. I made this thread to get your guys take on it.
 
I dont know who this guy is. I made this thread to get your guys take on it.

No, I hear you--and that's why I wanted to clarify my comments.

I just hate to see this become a "thing," when it obviously isn't.

If the refs failed to measure the weight of the balls prior to the start of the game, that's on them---and I highly doubt they'd make such a mistake in the conference championship with Roger Goodell on hand.
 
We beat the Colts in every phase of the game. In every way that I can think of.
 
Ethan Hammerman ?@Ethanhamm has the best stuff on this.



 
dont you guys know how Goodell works by now?

You EMBARRASS him for not doing his job properly. see Woody Johnson debacle

Then, mysteriously, that gets put in the background because of some new found information about you- see football air pressure

wash, rinse, repeat.

Its the Goodell news cycle, we are all just a long for the ride.
 
Would someone with a twitter account PLEASE send the link to the NFL rulebook that Belichick Fan has provided?

This guy's comments aren't even making any sense, talking about "balls being weighed in the middle of the game, etc."
 
LOL

First off, not a chance in hell they could've sneaked 30+ deflated balls into that game - or whatever amount they have prepared to use throughout the game. Even if (which I doubt) it were 1 or 2... How would the Patriots even control who got which balls during the game? And didn't I hear they use slightly less inflated balls for kickoffs or something? I might be wrong on that but...

Regardless, this is ridiculous
 
Kravitz used to be a columnist for the Indianapolis Star. He now works for a television station there. And it was up to the officials to test the footballs.

If the league wants to take draft picks away from this officiating crew, I'm alright with that.
 
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