The 3 Stooges at the NFL offices are too busy poking each other in the eyes and saying, “Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk” to bother with a report. Meanwhile we are left wondering what to tell the children…
That was cute the first 20 times. It’s getting a little old though.
So you don’t want your team officially exonerated? It would give you one more thing to gloat about, and Pats fans seem to really enjoy gloating.
Tell them that pitchers and catchers report today . . . time marches on into spring (if your lucky enough not to live in NE anyway 
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When you hire outside counsel, you’re guaranteeing 3 things:
- A huge bill. There is no restraint when billing something like this. It's a legal associate feeding frenzy.
- A lot of paper. See 1: must justify so produce lots of paper.
- A long wait. See 1 and 2: if it costs a lot, it must take more time to produce because something quick would be cheap.
I am completely disgusted with the whole thing.
A little background here. On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday 2007, Pats fans woke up to front page headlines that the Pats had filmed St Louis Rams workouts before the 2001 SuperBowl. The entire day of SuperBowl coverage and weeks after was dominated by CHEATER stories.
It wasn’t until several week later, when the media attention had long dissipated that the newspaper and the reporter and the alleged source all admitted that the story was completely 100% false. Under threat of legal action, the newspaper was forced to publish a comptete, total, 100% retraction and apology on the front page. But, of course, that was barely mentioned nationally and the world, to this day, believes the Pats filmed the Rams walkthroughs.
Sidenote of interes: the Colts rat GM Grigson was employed by that Rams team in 2001 and later employed by the Eagles when the Pats beat them in the 2004 SuperBowl.
So anyway, having a SuperBowl week marred by false allegations is both nothing new and a sore subject for the Pats fans. We know that the Wells Report is never going to make any difference. It won’t get much media attention and it will be forever assumed that the Pats deflated the footballs.
Still, wouldn’t you like to have it on the record? If my team were under an undeserved cloud, I sure would.
Also, what’s your theory about why it’s taking so long? [The league said on January 23](NFL National Football League News, Expert Analysis, Rumors, Live Updates, & more - Yahoo Sports) that it had already interviewed nearly 40 people, had already obtained video, electronic information and physical evidence. And yet a month has gone by with no statements. They haven’t even pretended to interview Belichick and Brady. For everyone but Patriot fans, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the league isn’t much interested in what happened, and just wants this to go away. Or that they’ve found something incriminating but don’t want to taint their champions. One or the other. But perhaps you have a third explanation for this extremely odd “investigation.”
Even a nine-year-old can figure it out:
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Of course the league just wants it to go away. They’ve turned it into a nightmare of their own making. One employee fired for stealing footballs. Mike Kensil, the VP of Operations has to be fired for setting up a sting and illegally tampering with the footballs at half time and leaking like a sieve in an effort to damage the Patriots… Goodell has lost one of his strongest allies in Robert Kraft. And, the Pats have all the video evidence of the Keystone Kops operation (and shown a willingness to dole it out like drone attacks on Al Quaeda strongholds).
An effective commissioner would have never let this happen. Pete Rozelle would have shut it down by breakfast the next morning with a statement that the balls are checked before the game and never in the history of the league has a football been tested during a game, when of course they change in pressure due to temperature, rain, snow, etc. He would have laughed about Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas worrying about footballs. Nothing to see here.
This exploded solely due to incompetence at the league office.
I see you are reverting to the Patriots-weather-was-different-than-Colts-weather defense. Very nice.
I just thought it was cute that a 9-year-old made a science project out of it.
No one has reported the exact PSI measurements of the Colts’ balls. So who knows if they changed pressure or not. No one has announced what pressure Luck likes them to be at, to my knowledge. There could be other factors involved too, like if the Patriots’ footballs got wetter or colder (Patriots dominated ToP, and perhaps their prep scrapes more of the coating off the ball, so they absorb more water. Wet leather will stretch, leading to lower pressure.)
I see that you are reverting to the “we actually know what he PSI of any of these footballs was” prosecution. Very nice!
The pressures of the game balls before the game may or may not have been measured, but were definitely not written down.
The only person who may or may not have tested the balls at halftime was Mike Kensil, who is not authorized to tamper with the footballs at any time before, during, or after a game. We don’t know what Kensil and Grigson did to the Pats ball on the Colts sideline.
The weather conditions will, of course, alter the inflation pressure of footballs, just as they have for every football in every NFL game since the days of leather helmets and just as they do for your car tires. Footballs on a 100 degree day in Miami will increase in pressure during the game. Footballs on a winter day in New England will decrease in pressure during the game, assuming both were originally inflated indoors at 70 degrees. But, since no football has ever been tested after pregame since the beginning of the NFL and since there is no record of the temperatures for any of the footballs in this particular game, that’s all irrelevant. If the changing inflation pressure of footballs over the course of a three hour game were important, the NFL probably would have measured it at least one time between the league’s founding in 1922 and January 2015.
- I think the reporting on this lags the reality. The ESPN report about a ball being "introduced" was blown up the next day because the NFL already knew what happened. Asks why the story came out, who the sources were, etc. but it also means we don't know the status of the investigation. Thus, I assume everyone of importance has in fact been interviewed, but the reporting isn't there.
- Since you can inflate in a range, if you inflate toward the top and a ball lose 1 pound then it's still either within or very close. The first reports said the balls were 2 psi low - which btw is a millimeter difference in size - but then it was reported more than once that all but one were about 1 psi low.
I don’t believe this is correct. The ideal gas law states that pressure * volume is a constant at a constant temp. So if pressure drops 16% (from 12.5 to 10.5), volume would have to increase 16%. A 1 mm size change in each direction would only be around a 2% increase in volume.
How about Jameis Winston’s responses at the combine? The more I hear him talk the less I like him and it has nothing at all to do with syntax.
Haha, yeah he has been such a great role model up to now. Theft, sexual assault, screaming obscenities, firing a pellet gun around his apartment…
Apparently he can charm the media, though.
He went on about playing in the Super Bowl next year (talking of himself in the 3rd person) and on the same level with Manning and Brady. Them’s fightin’ words!
I would put my money on teaching Mariota to take a snap from under center before I would put it on Jameis being a responsible human.
If I were a gambler . . .
I only watched two college football games this year. It puts all the draft talk in perspective. It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking they are playing the same game as the NFL and that you can assume it will translate. In reality (and it’s obvious when you just watch one or two college games) is that they are playing Pop Warner football compared to the NFL.
The consistently good NFL teams are good because they are effective in teaching the Pop Warner draft picks to play NFL football.
Hey! I agree with you!! *heavens part and trumpets sound *