Junkie dope addict Irsay better hope his idiot rat GM pumps in extra loud crowd noise for the Pats game next year. They will need all the help they can get. I see the Pats shooting for a “hundred burger” on that swiss cheese defense.
Heard on local radio today:
Dallas broke Detroit’s heart. Green Bay broke Dallas’ heart. Seattle broke Green Bay’s heart. New England broke Seattle’s heart. It wasn’t meant to be for the NFC this year.
Well actually the tje story was prominently featured on ESPN. I read about it last week. The thing is, it’s just less of a story when a cheater loses than when a cheater wins, since in a loss the unfair advantage didn’t work and the right team won the game.
Also less of a story when the cheater admits it.
@notrichenough; Hold your water. The Atlanta situation is being investigated by the league and Blank has already done his mea culpa. The story has been picked up by the national news feeds. Is it as sexy as Deflated balls? Who can say.
Since I am still blistering from my $$$ loss from the first half. 
Do any of you wonder, like me, how much the Seahawks ability to move the ball downfield at the end of the first half played into Carroll’s end of game decision?
Seattle, to me, had showed on the end of 2nd quarter drive how they could coast at will and the Patriots seemingly couldn’t stop them. In what 40 some seconds, they had gone the length of the field and here they were in the final 2 minutes doing the same. Did Pete get overconfident?
Would Carroll have been thinking if it had backfired in the first half, let’s go conventional and run it?
Then my other in hindsight coaching has been over how Belichick went all in with his double dog dare move of not calling a timeout and daring the Seahawks to win the game. Everyone at our party was yelling ”Wait the Pats aren’t going to get another chance here. This might be over!”
Do you believe the Seahawks, like us, thought New England would call a timeout?
If you go on youtube and put “fans react to Patriots interception” or something along those lines into the search box, you see some great reaction videos of both sides. Lots of profanity, though, as you can imagine.
Those are pretty amusing, thanks Nrdsb4.
Belichick says criticism of the Seahawks’ play choice is totally out of line:
Nice article that takes a quick look - they do this every week - at pass protection and pass rushing with gif’s to show examples: [url=<a href=“http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/extra_points/2015/02/patriots_take_2_josh_mcdaniels_deserves_super_bowl.html%5Dhere%5B/url”>http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/extra_points/2015/02/patriots_take_2_josh_mcdaniels_deserves_super_bowl.html]here[/url].
I would emphasize even more that the pick play at the end might have worked if the CB opposite Kearse had been someone other than Browner. He’s so big and strong that Kearse didn’t get any shove. If I would fault Wilson beyond the throw being a bit high and in front, it’s that he didn’t compensate for that match-up affecting the play.
BTW, I remember St. Louis winning on the last play. Or rather Tennessee losing when their last play was stopped at the half-yard line. It happens.
Also with Grigson involved, I’d question whether Colts deflated the one ball found to be more deflated. Or that they pumped more air into their balls.
When Polian ran things in Indy, they were accused of pumping in noise but they denied it and that was never proven. So I don’t consider that true (because allegations aren’t convictions).
One more thing for Roger Goodell to have to explain:
[Two Irish guys sneaked into the Super Bowl without tickets and snagged $25,000 seats](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/02/03/two-irish-guys-sneaked-into-the-super-bowl-without-tickets-and-snagged-25000-seats/)
^ Pretty sure it’s the Patriots’ fault, they did take a selfie with ex-Patriot Lawyer Malloy after all.
That’s a great story.
Makes you wonder why the two people in the half time show had to have seats worth $25.000!
IMO the main significance is that it’s one more way that the league looks like it’s got its head up its you-know-what. Nice security, Super Bowl.
OTOH, I heard that this Super Bowl was the most-watched ever, which would probably make it the most-watched TV show in history. So evidently we don’t care about the scandals and incompetence and cravenness.
^ Or more people watch because of the scandals.
Yup. My “conspiracy theory” is that the “deflategate” was blown out of proportion to create more hype about the Super Bowl in the media. Of course Joe the Public likes a good scandal.
As an aside, I think it’s funny Cleveland is being fined, etc. for text messaging to the sidelines during the game. There’s no way that gives a competitive advantage. In fact, I’d say it is a disadvantage to have the front office sticking their heads into the game.
I did such a good job at going “cold turkey” Tuesday morning as I said I would, but I felt that this needed reporting. Kam Chancellor has a torn MCL and “deep bone bruise” along with Thomas’ torn labrum and separated shoulder, Sherman’s need for Tommy John surgery and of course the compound wrist fracture that Lane suffered. Taking nothing away from the NE offensive attack I wanted to note for those who felt that the LOB was overrated there were some serious extenuating circumstances that caused them to be less effective than they might have been.
over and out and back to moving on with my life (only 3 weeks until pitchers and catchers report!)
So when the Seahawks had their parade last year, it was a classy upbeat celebration, no mention of the score being very unequal.
But when the Patriots had their parade, they felt the need to mock the team that they barely out scored.
Keep it classy, cheaters.
I could see texting down to call for a review or something if the network feed shows something the coaches can’t see.
Yeah, because miming that you are crapping out a ball is so classy. As is mocking an opponent for the tv cameras on the sidelines on the middle of the game. Was it Lane that called out Gronk before the game as not being very good? Classy.
Sometimes you reap what you sow.