The NFL not only colluded to sabotage the patriots, they destroyed evidence.

[chasa]

In the Wells report on page 69 https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.co...s-re-footballs-used-during-afc-championsh.pdf

"The officials also inflated and re-adjusted each of the Patriots game balls tested. Riveron instructed that footballs registering below the permissible range should be inflated and set to 13.0 psi. Using the air pump provided by the Patriots, Blakeman inflated each Patriots ball, and handed each to Prioleau, who used the air release valve on a pressure gauge to ensure that the balls were set to a pressure level within the permissible 12.5 to 13.5 psi range. No air was added to the Colts balls tested because they each registered within the permissible inflation range on at least one of the two gauges used"

If there was doubt that the patriots balls were tampered with, wouldn't it make sense to leave them at room temperature, the same temp they were initially filled at, and measured again at the end of the game to see if the adverse weather did in fact bring them below where they should have been?

Wouldn't filling them essentially remove any possibility for the patriots to say Walt Anderson tested them in this room and they were 12.5, at the end of the game with no weather conditions to account for they are once again 12.5 Nobody had access to this locker room since halftime as proven by this video evidence.

Isn't it more probable than not that the league destroyed evidence of the patriots innocence in order to cover up for the HUGE mistake they made by setting up this sting?

Now going to page73

Measurements of the patriots gameballs (for some reason then only measured 4)after the game:

Patriots Ball PSI1 PSI2

1 13.50 13.15
2 13.35 12.95
3 13.35 12.95
4 13.65 13.25

On page 69 Wells says that the referees, and the nfl staff decided to fill the patriots balls to 13psi. How then, at the end of the game is it possible that every single patriot ball measured in at above 13 or below by .05? This shows that the Referees Colluded with the NFL to attempt to Sabotage the patriots by giving them over pressurized footballs.

So things that brady and the patriots can use when sueing the league

1.)The sting, claiming an attempt to fix the game
2.)Destruction of evidence
3.)Collusion to sabotage, and lying on the report.

 

[sevengables_2207]

IMO one of the things that hints at a sting is Blandino lying on camera at the Super Bowl by saying he had no knowledge of the complaint from Grigson and the Colts, then, we come to find out that an email responding to the complaint was forwarded to him and he alerted Anderson to keep a close eye on the ball pressure.

 

[RunAmok]

The NFL pronounced the Pats guilty at halftime when Mike Kensil , NFL VP of Game Operations, told a NE employee 'you’re in big f—ing trouble’. The rest of the story is just the NFL creating the narrative, making sure that there were enough "official leaks" so that the media and the public could get on board with the plan and covering their tracks.

 

[Bruins29]

Somewhere I hope all of this **** is being tallied up so that it can be put into one report and shown all over the world the the NFLs little plan of framing the Pats just diddnt quite work.

 

[Dr Pain]

In the Wells report on page 69 https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.co...s-re-footballs-used-during-afc-championsh.pdf

"The officials also inflated and re-adjusted each of the Patriots game balls tested. Riveron instructed that footballs registering below the permissible range should be inflated and set to 13.0 psi. Using the air pump provided by the Patriots, Blakeman inflated each Patriots ball, and handed each to Prioleau, who used the air release valve on a pressure gauge to ensure that the balls were set to a pressure level within the permissible 12.5 to 13.5 psi range. No air was added to the Colts balls tested because they each registered within the permissible inflation range on at least one of the two gauges used"

If there was doubt that the patriots balls were tampered with, wouldn't it make sense to leave them at room temperature, the same temp they were initially filled at, and measured again at the end of the game to see if the adverse weather did in fact bring them below where they should have been?

Wouldn't filling them essentially remove any possibility for the patriots to say Walt Anderson tested them in this room and they were 12.5, at the end of the game with no weather conditions to account for they are once again 12.5 Nobody had access to this locker room since halftime as proven by this video evidence.

Isn't it more probable than not that the league destroyed evidence of the patriots innocence in order to cover up for the HUGE mistake they made by setting up this sting?

Now going to page73

Measurements of the patriots gameballs (for some reason then only measured 4)after the game:

Patriots Ball PSI1 PSI2

1 13.50 13.15
2 13.35 12.95
3 13.35 12.95
4 13.65 13.25

On page 69 Wells says that the referees, and the nfl staff decided to fill the patriots balls to 13psi. How then, at the end of the game is it possible that every single patriot ball measured in at above 13 or below by .05? This shows that the Referees Colluded with the NFL to attempt to Sabotage the patriots by giving them over pressurized footballs.

So things that brady and the patriots can use when sueing the league

1.)The sting, claiming an attempt to fix the game
2.)Destruction of evidence
3.)Collusion to sabotage, and lying on the report.

I need someone to check what I am talking about but I think this above post is going to be the proof of the Patriots innocence. If Balls were set to 13 PSI at the half and on 6 of the 8 measurements after the game the balls were above 13PSI, this is scientific proof that the Patriots balls had not reached equilibrium room temperature at the half. 13 at Room temp at the half would equal 13 at room temp after the game. 13 at the half equaling more than 13 after the game means the balls entered a warmer environment so the Patriots balls had not warmed up to room temperature at the half .

 

[RunAmok]

It depends when they were measured after the game and when the NE balls were inflated at halftime. If the balls were re-inflated right after being measured then they might not have returned to equilibrium and thus would take more air to get to 13psi. If the measurement from after the game was delayed enough the balls would have returned to equilibrium and thus have the high psi. Again this goes to show, that even under the best supervision that very experienced refs and NFL officials could provide, they still ****ed it up.

 

[Canuck]

In the Wells report on page 69 https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.co...s-re-footballs-used-during-afc-championsh.pdf

"The officials also inflated and re-adjusted each of the Patriots game balls tested. Riveron instructed that footballs registering below the permissible range should be inflated and set to 13.0 psi. Using the air pump provided by the Patriots, Blakeman inflated each Patriots ball, and handed each to Prioleau, who used the air release valve on a pressure gauge to ensure that the balls were set to a pressure level within the permissible 12.5 to 13.5 psi range. No air was added to the Colts balls tested because they each registered within the permissible inflation range on at least one of the two gauges used"

If there was doubt that the patriots balls were tampered with, wouldn't it make sense to leave them at room temperature, the same temp they were initially filled at, and measured again at the end of the game to see if the adverse weather did in fact bring them below where they should have been?

Wouldn't filling them essentially remove any possibility for the patriots to say Walt Anderson tested them in this room and they were 12.5, at the end of the game with no weather conditions to account for they are once again 12.5 Nobody had access to this locker room since halftime as proven by this video evidence.

Isn't it more probable than not that the league destroyed evidence of the patriots innocence in order to cover up for the HUGE mistake they made by setting up this sting?

Now going to page73

Measurements of the patriots gameballs (for some reason then only measured 4)after the game:

Patriots Ball PSI1 PSI2

1 13.50 13.15
2 13.35 12.95
3 13.35 12.95
4 13.65 13.25

On page 69 Wells says that the referees, and the nfl staff decided to fill the patriots balls to 13psi. How then, at the end of the game is it possible that every single patriot ball measured in at above 13 or below by .05? This shows that the Referees Colluded with the NFL to attempt to Sabotage the patriots by giving them over pressurized footballs.

So things that brady and the patriots can use when sueing the league

1.)The sting, claiming an attempt to fix the game
2.)Destruction of evidence
3.)Collusion to sabotage, and lying on the report.

Finally someone else who thinks this part of the report is significant as I do. These were post game balls that were tested using the same guages as at halftime. They measured 4 balls from each team. The same sample size as at half time for the Colts balls. All 4 Patriots balls chosen at random were all higher on both guages then any of the colts balls chosen at random. This completly blows the readings they took at halftime out of the water. Panic time, how to explain it. This was their conclusion.

Although these measurements were recorded in conditions similar to those present during halftime, information concerning the timing of these measurements, the pressure levels at which these eight footballs started the second half and the identity of the four Colts footballs tested after the game (specifically, whether they were the same footballs that had been tested at halftime) is significantly less certain than the information about similar issues concerning the pre-game or halftime periods. As a result, our experts concluded that that the post-game measurements did not provide a scientifically reasonable basis on which to conduct a comparative analysis similar to that performed using the pre-game and halftime measurements, the pressure levels at which these eight footballs started the second half and the identity of the four Colts footballs tested after the game (specifically, whether they were the same footballs that had been tested at halftime) is significantly less certain than the information about similar issues concerning the pre-game or halftime periods. As a result, our experts concluded that that the post-game measurements did not provide a scientifically reasonable basis on which to conduct a comparative analysis similar to that performed using the pre-game and halftime measurements.

They were concerned about the timing of the tests. Yea like that had any bearing on the halftime findings

Big deal about what the pregame psi was set at but they have no clue what the officals set the psi at halftime. Guess the psi that was set at halftime wasn't a big concern, they didn't care that all footballs were set at a uniform pressure. They took as much care as they did pregame but that didn't stop them from assuming all Patriots balls were 12.5 and all colts balls were 13.0 pregame for their experiments.

They were concerned that it wasn't the same 4 colts footballs. Really!

Using the exact same footballs, played for the same amt of time. Under scrunity by officals and NFL brass in attendence. Inflated at halftime by the same officials Using the same guages and the same sample size as the Colts control group. They came to the conclusion that they had no clue what the starting psi was, that timing might have an effect on measurement and having 4 footballs other then the same ones they had before could have a wide affect (yea like they glossed over that when they used 4 colts balls as their control group)

It's a classic case of a poor study that ignores data that doesn't fit their forgone conclusion. They ignore data, manipulate data to get the conclusion they wanted.

 

[JMC00]

IMO one of the things that hints at a sting is Blandino lying on camera at the Super Bowl by saying he had no knowledge of the complaint from Grigson and the Colts, then, we come to find out that an email responding to the complaint was forwarded to him and he alerted Anderson to keep a close eye on the ball pressure.

Which is why I have no clue why people think Kraft doesn't have a case to sue the league.

 

[NashuaPats]

IMO one of the things that hints at a sting is Blandino lying on camera at the Super Bowl by saying he had no knowledge of the complaint from Grigson and the Colts, then, we come to find out that an email responding to the complaint was forwarded to him and he alerted Anderson to keep a close eye on the ball pressure.

The thing that tells me this was a sting, was the fact there was an investigation at all.

I understand that the referees and NFL executives probably would not be familiar with the ideal gas law and were surprised by the readings. But over the next couple of days thousands of people including Ivy League physicists explained the balls would drop about 1 psi or so. Anderson said he used the Logo gauge which showed an average of 11.49 at half time which matched up perfectly with the pregame measurements.

This should have died right then and there. The end. But why didn't it? Why did they open a $5 million investigation?

 

[Marko]

Truth of the matter is, there are so many variables mentioned as well as not even imagined that fighting over .4 psi is like the IRS prosecuting someone for cheating on their taxes because their return was off by a penny, it's absolutely insane. Which balls were wet, which ones were drier? What was the temp in the Colts locker room, what was temp in Pats locker room? Which gauge read a little higher? How long were the balls in each respective locker room before each measurement, halftime and pre-game? Did preparation of balls vary enough to cause difference in absorption? Which team swapped out balls more often?
We've gone from 2 psi which is still pretty marginal, to ultimately (if you buy exponent) a .4 psi variation from where they should be. Why has this not been hammered? All of those guys saying "oh yeah I can feel the difference" should now be told "by the way you exaggerated your test squeeze by 5 times what the supposed margin is."

 

[DarrylS]

IMO one of the things that hints at a sting is Blandino lying on camera at the Super Bowl by saying he had no knowledge of the complaint from Grigson and the Colts, then, we come to find out that an email responding to the complaint was forwarded to him and he alerted Anderson to keep a close eye on the ball pressure.

This coupled with Gregson's commentary to the Pats equipment manager may all be produced in the discovery phase of any litigation.. not sure if it will happen in arbitration, but probably will happen in any court proceedings..

The other huge issue for me is that the report went out of their way to praise the integrity of Walt Anderson, the same dude who did not record the actual PSI of the balls prior to the game, they same dude who cannot remember what gauge he used, the same dude who lost control of the custody of the balls and the same dude who when the balls were recovered did not recheck them to protect the "integrity of the game"....

 

[sevengables_2207]

This coupled with Gregson's commentary to the Pats equipment manager may all be produced in the discovery phase of any litigation.. not sure if it will happen in arbitration, but probably will happen in any court proceedings..

The other huge issue for me is that the report went out of their way to praise the integrity of Walt Anderson, the same dude who did not record the actual PSI of the balls prior to the game, they same dude who cannot remember what gauge he used, the same dude who lost control of the custody of the balls and the same dude who when the balls were recovered did not recheck them to protect the "integrity of the game"....

Anderson was clearly incompetent even with foreknowledge.

I have not read the entire report. Did Wells ever "investigate" the rumor of Kensil breaking the rules by gauging the intercepted football at the end of the first half?

 

[chasa]

Anderson was clearly incompetent even with foreknowledge.

I have not read the entire report. Did Wells ever "investigate" the rumor of Kensil breaking the rules by gauging the intercepted football at the end of the first half?

Yes,

Kensil didn't but the colts equipment staff DID.

 

[sevengables_2207]

Yes,

Kensil didn't but the colts equipment staff DID.

Correct me if I am wrong, but is this not an instance of tampering?

 

[rookBoston]

Choosing to punish Brady and not punish Anderson does seem remarkably arbitrary. And the choice to believe and disregard which portions of Anderson's recollection Wells chose to accept as truth is remarkably arbitrary.

One thing that I think has been entirely forgotten in the last few weeks was the discovery that an NFL employee sold the game balls from the Colts/Pats game on EBay for a profit, despite the fact that they should have gone to charity. That seems like an interesting and embarrassing point for the NFL that has been conveniently overlooked in the recent media dialog. It goes towards demonstrating how "selective memory" in the Wells Report and the subsequent media dialog has skewed towards embarrassing the Pats and making the NFL seem quite pristine.

 

[RxJock1120]

Yes, also measuring all the Colts footballs at halftime (instead of just 4) would have helped. Or perhaps actually measuring the pressure of the footballs before the game.

 

[ivanvamp]

Somewhere I hope all of this **** is being tallied up so that it can be put into one report and shown all over the world the the NFLs little plan of framing the Pats just diddnt quite work.

Unfortunately, at this point it HAS worked. Brady is currently suspended for 4 games (at a cost of $2 million). The Patriots were fined $1 million. They were docked a first and fourth round draft picks. And according to an espn poll, 72% of the country thinks this punishment was justified.