Which team has the most Longhorns? I know Seattle has Thomas.
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^^^^Lol.
Ha. I heard Vince Wilfork lifted a lady out of a flipped car after the game Sunday. With one arm. One of my favorite football commentator quotes was after he intercepted a pass and scored that one time and the commentator said “Man, I just love it when a fat guy scores a touchdown.” 
It was in Peter Kings’s MMQB column on Monday:
I think he threw God under the bus for those 4 INTS. :eyeroll:
@"Deborah T" - sorry about your car. 
Fortunately ours have a lot of life left in them.
LOL, Lergnom!
Might be the Redskins with Jeffcoat, Orakpo, Robsinson and the great Colt McCoy.
Panthers, Cardinals, and Ravens might have three a piece.
I meant in the Super Bowl, so I’d know for whom to root!
At first I thought this was much ado about nothing … but 11 of 12? Hmmmm.
Wow. Well, we already know that Belechik is comfortable with cheating, so this shouldn’t be a surprise.
Wonder what the league will do. They have to do something, and it can’t be just fines or draft picks. Not when it’s the championship game, and not after the PR disaster year they’ve had.
Good analysis:
Agree… excellent article and analysis. More viewers will now be rooting for the Hawks however let’s not forget that Pete Carroll ain’t no saint. Just ask those that followed him closely when he coached at USC…
^^^ Which is why so many don’t like the Seahawks.
For example, Foxborough, Mass.
It seems like gratuitous cheating anyway. Did the Pats really believe deflating the balls was going to be a difference-maker? Or do they do this routinely for rainy games?
That’s actually the only reason why I can’t be more enthusiastic about them. Sneaky Pete just really didn’t come off well after the USC stuff.
But I dislike both Brady (admire his talent and intelligence, though) and coach B., probably a little more even than Pete.
And WTH about the footballs?! If they really did that purposely to gain an advantage, I’m going to go from thinking the coaching staff is ethically challenged to thinking they are also idiots.
I think the press should interview Andrew Luck about the deflated balls. What are the chances he’d say “Come on, folks, let’s be real. That’s just a bunch of %^**^. The only thing flat on the field were all us, Colts”
The impact of the game was probably 0.0001 percent, if that high. Now, if you want to talk about slicked up balls in Seattle, that is another story!
Yeah, it would be hard to believe that a 45-7 rout could be explained away by the ball thing.
To a cheater (like Belicheck), the only question is the cost/benefit analysis. Deflating the balls probably did not help a lot, but he figured the probability of getting caught and the likely penalty were small enough to be worth it. And that is why they need to come down on him like a hammer - show everyone that the penalty will always make cheating a bad idea!
Don’t know anything other than speculation but:
- They inflate the balls at halftime. Patriots scored 28 points after halftime.
- The officials say they checked the balls as mandated before the game. They also handled the balls on every play.
- A piece says the Colts reported under-inflated balls in their loss to the Patriots in Indianapolis. This gets into the "did you think this through" category: the balls are under the NFL's control until they're handed to the ball attendant and kept on the sideline. That ball attendant is a team employee under NFL supervision. So the allegation is the Colts' employee under-inflated the balls the Patriots used in Indy?