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Today I've witnessed: a) a person who cried on the radio because she knew from many years of "running and walking" exactly how heavy her shoes were and so Tom Brady would necessarily know how inflated his balls were and b) a caller to SiriusXM using lawfirm's fumble record with the Pats and the Bengals as proof that he played with deflated balls in New England.

These people might vote. *shudder*
 
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If we spent a week on a leak about leaks that proves to have been wrong and NFL just stood w/arms folded and watched While a member franchise was dismembered before SB the level of corruption and lack of integrity means a fumigation is necessary.
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One of the principal rumor mongers is starting to moonwalk. The hypocrisy in this article reaks :Fart:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/25/nfl-bears-plenty-of-blame-for-deflategate/

At this point, it’s unclear whether the NFL will find any evidence to support the suspicion that someone from the Patriots deliberately caused footballs to lose air pressure. If the NFL fails to find a proverbial smoking gun, that alone could become a different kind of smoking gun.

Even if (and at this point it could be a big if) the league finds proof of foul play, was it really worth it? The NFL has tarnished its own shield by painting a Super Bowl participant as a cheater without clear evidence of cheating. As noted on Friday, some believe that former Commissioners (such as Paul Tagliabue) would have addressed complaints coming from teams like the Colts regarding underinflated footballs not by trying to lay a trap for the Patriots, but by letting the Patriots know that the league office is paying attention to the situation, and that if there’s any funny business happening it needs to stop, now. Instead, the league office opted to try to catch the Patriots red handed.

But what has the NFL really found? As one league source has explained it to PFT, the football intercepted by Colts linebacker D’Qwell Jackson was roughly two pounds under the 12.5 PSI minimum. The other 10 balls that reportedly were two pounds under may have been, as the source explained it, closer to one pound below 12.5 PSI.

The NFL has yet to share specific information regarding the PSI measurements of the balls that were confiscated and measured at halftime. Which has allowed the perception of cheating to linger, fueled by the confirmation from Friday that the NFL found underinflated balls, but that the NFL still doesn’t know how they came to be that way.

“The goals of the investigation will be to determine the explanation for why footballs used in the game were not in compliance with the playing rules and specifically whether any noncompliance was the result of deliberate action,” the league said. “We have not made any judgments on these points and will not do so until we have concluded our investigation and considered all of the relevant evidence.”

Regardless of how hard or easy it could be or should be to get to the truth, the NFL owes it to the Patriots and the league to get there, quickly. Instead, the premier American sporting event apparently will be played under a dark cloud, and anything other than an eventual finding of cheating will seem anticlimactic and contrived. Even if the conclusion is regarded as legitimate, it won’t undo the damage that the Patriots and the NFL will have suffered during this bizarre period of pending allegations that have not yet been proven.

So at a time when the league office is still reeling from an insufficient investigation in the Ray Rice case, the league office now faces even more criticism for a clumsy sting operation that possibly will end up being a swing and a miss. Surely, much of that criticism will be directed privately at the league office from the Patriots.

Complicating matters for the NFL is that the bat initially was swung by Mike Kensil, a former employee of the Jets with a reputation among the Patriots for being an agitator. (Kensil’s father, Jim, served as president of the Jets for 10 years from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.) And so on the same day that the tampering charges filed by the Patriots against the Jets over Darrelle Revis became the latest chapter in a longstanding feud between the franchises, the tentacles of acrimony between the two franchises found a way to erupt into a brouhaha unlike many the NFL ever has seen.

The NFL never should have let this specific situation get to that point. Even if the league deemed it proper to lay a trap, they should have realized the challenges of actually making a trap work. In this case, it appears that they didn’t.
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Also note the bolded part. If true, the only ball significantly low was the one in the Colts possession for much of the 1st half.
 
bideau said:
One of the principal rumor mongers is starting to moonwalk. The hypocrisy in this article reaks :Fart:

Also note the bolded part. If true, the only ball significantly low was the one in the Colts possession for much of the 1st half.
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Speaking of balls, if I had Florio here, I would cut off his nuts with a rusty saw and feed them to starving dogs. And that would still be better treatment than that sniveling, two-faced bag of excrement deserves. I hope he gets raped with a cactus.
 
Son of Bushy T said:
Speaking of balls, if I had Florio here, I would cut off his nuts with a rusty saw and feed them to starving dogs. And that would still be better treatment than that sniveling, two-faced bag of excrement deserves. I hope he gets raped with a cactus.
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Son of Bushy T said:
Thanks SC. This is actually Bushy T Beaver. Haven't been on the site in awhile, password wasn't working and mods not answering my emails. So I've been reborn, so to speak.
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Son of Bushy T said:
Thanks SC. This is actually Bushy T Beaver. Haven't been on the site in awhile, password wasn't working and mods not answering my emails. So I've been reborn, so to speak.
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Well where the heck have you been, I hope you bring back your pussycat avatar also :thumb:
 
Sherman just said (live coverage on NFLN) the Pats likely would never be punished as long as Kraft and Goodell are posing for pictures together.
 
Jason LaConfora is saying it's ridiculous in AZ, the Seahawk players are getting bombarded with Deflategate questions. Media really are f**ked up.
 
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