Let's say Brady/Pats/Billy are 100% innocent of this deflate business

shdw01 said:

And it was only 1 ball severely under-inflated (The one the colts intercepted and had in their possession)...while the other 11 were at or near the 12.5 psi guidelines.....


Do the Colts come off as super douches?

Do all the Pats haters come out and apologize (I know the pats fans will be puffing their chests around here)

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doubledeuce22 said:

If this keeps going the way it's trending.. Looking at the real possibility that pagano, colts gm grigson, and/or harbaugh could be suspended or fined. Colts should lose some type of draft pick.

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doubledeuce22 said:

If this keeps going the way it's trending.. Looking at the real possibility that pagano, colts gm grigson, and/or harbaugh could be suspended or fined. Colts should lose some type of draft pick.

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BOSTON (CBS) — Here’s a story you definitely did not miss: The Patriots were accused of underinflating footballs in the AFC Championship Game.Here’s a story you might have missed: It was all a bunch of hogwash.
Yeah, “DeflateGate,” you know the thing where the entire country lost its collective mind because Tom Brady and Bill Belichick supposedly cheated in the AFC Championship Game, a two-week period of absolute hysteria where people drew conclusions as soon as they heard the accusations?
All of it was nothing.
Two developments last week essentially put the kibosh on “DeflateGate,” as it stupidly came to be known. Well, technically, there were three developments. The first took place when Robert Kraft boldly stepped to the podium Monday evening in Chandler, Ariz., and firmly stated that he expects an apology from commissioner Roger Goodell to Belichick, to Brady and to the entire Patriots organization for all of the accusations that came without any proof or evidence of wrongdoing. Much like with Belichick’s press conference two days prior, a person of Kraft’s stature does not speak with such certainty unless he knows that the league has nothing. The stakes would be too high to make such statements if evidence found at a later date might prove them to be liars.
So there was that, but if you’re into more concrete evidence there was this.
First, at a press conference last Thursday in Phoenix, NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino spilled the beans that the PSI of the 12 Patriots footballs were never recorded by referee Walt Anderson. Blandino said that balls were measured, and if they were under the low threshold of 12.5, they were simply pumped up with some air. So instantly, the report by ESPN’s Chris Mortensen that said 11 of the 12 footballs were a full 2 PSI under the threshold was essentially debunked. How could Mortensen have that information if nobody could have that information? (The answer, of course, is that a source who desperately wanted such misinformation out there gave him the “scoop.”)

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Willie99 said:

absolutely, which is the way things are trending

only one ball significantly under inflated, and that's the one ball the Colts just happen to have in their possession

Colts organization complains, with one of the crybaby Harbough's behind the accusation after being schooled about the rules

probably became way bigger than anyone anticipated, even they're probably shocked by all the idiocy




having said that, I still believe we'll all know more once the final details are released, and what's been released to date can only ("should" only) make us wonder about everything that's been reported to date. From the early releases condemning the Pats to the more recent releases exonerating them. I know one thing, the more we seem learn, the better it looks for the Pats.

I know I also have to explain the following. because so many have gotten so much wrong:

1) if the Pats' balls were under-inflated by a couple of ticks (whatever that really means), then nobody can argue that can't happen due to atmospheric conditions and game use. As a matter of fact, on that day in those conditions it's expected to happen.

2) and the reason why the game balls for the Colts were not below 12.5 is because they started above 12.5, maybe as high as 13.5.

My best "guess" is that will be the findings, and then the NFL should investigate the Colts to see what they may have done to the one game ball that happened to be in their possession

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doubledeuce22 said:

If this keeps going the way it's trending.. Looking at the real possibility that pagano, colts gm grigson, and/or harbaugh could be suspended or fined. Colts should lose some type of draft pick.

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hehateme82 said:

Pats fans are in no position to call anybody a crybaby.. Brady is one of the biggest whiners on the field ever.

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Willie99 said:

oh boo hoo, the Patriots confused me with illegal formations and then mocked me by telling me to learn the rules

so I'm going to call my friends and tell them they cheated on us

take that

your coach is a fucking pussy my friend

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doubledeuce22 said:

If this keeps going the way it's trending.. Looking at the real possibility that pagano, colts gm grigson, and/or harbaugh could be suspended or fined. Colts should lose some type of draft pick.

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PatsFan1283 said:

This might seem like a stretch right now but just wait a few weeks, it wouldn't surprise me if the Colts were kicked out of the NFL altogether after the weight of a massive defamation lawsuit.

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Mantis Toboggan said:

Thanks for the laugh, dude. Good stuff.

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