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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Absolutely wrong, I am a Bostonian who lives in Florida. I grew up in Dorchester and went to Boston Latin School and BU. I have rooted for the Pats since Butch Songin was their QB in 1960. In all likehood that is before most of you were born which explains why I have a more reality based view of how things actually work.Oh. OK, you're from Florida. That explains it.
Absolutely wrong, I am a Bostonian who lives in Florida. I grew up in Dorchester and went to Boston Latin School and BU. I have rooted for the Pats since Butch Songin was their QB in 1960. In all likehood that is before most of you were born which explains why I have a more reality based view of how things actually work.
Q. Hey Mike, when do you think the Ted Wells investigation on deflategate will be done? Do you think the Pats will be fined? -- Eric (Charlestown, South Carolina)
A. Eric, just spitballing here, but the NFL's annual owners meeting starts March 23 and I'd like to think it would be completed by then so the league can put it to bed. My prediction is that the report will conclude that underinflated footballs were used, it is unclear why, and the league can't prove a deliberate act. Thus, it will remain an open-ended issue in which people can draw their own conclusions.
Looks like Reiss has a similar take on it to me. From today's mailbag:
Nor would I make snide remarks about where a person lives now without knowing the history of the person if I were you. In any event we will find out who is right when we see what Goodell does when the report comes out. Keeping in mind that Goodell can dole out punishment even if no illegal action could be proved.As I said before we will see who is right when the report comes out, so I wouldn't start patting myself on the back yet if I were you
Nor would I make snide remarks about where a person lives now without knowing the history of the person if I were you. In any event we will find out who is right when we see what Goodell does when the report comes out. Keeping in mind that Goodell can dole out punishment even if no illegal action could be proved.
Absolutely wrong, I am a Bostonian who lives in Florida. I grew up in Dorchester and went to Boston Latin School and BU. I have rooted for the Pats since Butch Songin was their QB in 1960. In all likehood that is before most of you were born which explains why I have a more reality based view of how things actually work.
Nor would I make snide remarks about where a person lives now without knowing the history of the person if I were you. In any event we will find out who is right when we see what Goodell does when the report comes out. Keeping in mind that Goodell can dole out punishment even if no illegal action could be proved.
Fla, I am really puzzled by your claim to "reality based view".
Do you think that Roger Goodell (or anyone else on the planet) can order Mother Nature around. Do you think that any of them can issue an edict that will make footballs not "deflate", exactly as the Pats' balls did during the Indy game, due to temperature?
Let's assume for a minute that Goodell & the League sanction the Pats in some way. Or claim that, even tho they don't know what happened, the situation is still not understood.
What do you think is going to happen when the Pats organization calls in some reporters with video cameras, pressurizes some footballs to 12.5 psi, then puts them in a refrigerator @ 50°F and occasionally sprinkles some 50°F water over them for about 90 minutes. Then, with cameras rolling, they pull the balls out of the refrigerator, stick a pressure gauge into it, and the gauge reads 11 psi??
The media LOVES to lynch people. They don't care who they lynch, as long as it's good & bloody.
Do you really think that they won't go after Goodell as rabidly as they went after Brady & Belichick?
If so, why do you think that they would not do so??
Tom
PS.
Me BLS, '70,
Cornell U, '74, mechanical engineering.
I am glad I am here not there this time of year. LOLIt's not my fault that Florida is a joke all by itself.
Keep in mind that everyone with half a brain knows that there is a scientific explanation for the decline in pressure. Consequently, the witch hunt could have ended in 24 hours yet it is still going on. The media and public knows this and it doesn't matter to them. All Goodell needs to punish the Pats is that a rule was violated i.e. the pressure was less than the prescribed amount regardless of how it got there. After 2007, the public and media believes the Pats are cheaters so punishing them is a positive factor for Goodell not a negative as people in New England think.
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Such a self-defeating, loser's argument. Sad.
So how about telling us specifically what you think it wrong with it.
It ignores the science.
No, people have ignored the science. As others have said - it's been there since day one.
I'm afraid the realist/pessimist approach is the appropriate one to take here, unless proven otherwise. What has the league done to make you think whatever comes next won't be as equally as stupid as everything that has preceded it?