First of all it is totally disgusting that he had dinner at the Kraft's house the night before the AFC Championship game. Roger, you might as well sit in the box with him for the game and high five him and his son the whole game since everyone knows you cater to them because you don't want to lose your $44.2M a year job. Yes, look it up including his $9.1M a year deferred pension that is his comp annually. Anyhow, here is what a person of integrity would have done after all the cheating that has surfaced that the Cheatriots have done over the past 15 years. He would have never burned all the cheating evidence within 72 hours because it could have been so detrimental to the game. A real leader would have displayed everything and banned for life all of the culprits and then do the following. He should taken away their three Super Bowl Titles and told Charlotte, St,. Louis and Philadelphia that they can schedule parades over the next month because he would be presenting them the Super Bowl Trophies that they were cheated out of in all three games that the Cheatriots won by a field goal. The fact that he did not do anything and thought that his two buddies would behave even though cheating is in their DNA brought him further embarrassment over the last few weeks. Then his incompetent officials in the Ravens game penalized Harbaugh when all he was asking for was for his team to know the eligible receivers when they broke the huddle not for Cindy Brady to be allowed to just laugh when two guys were covering an ineligible receiver and he had open targets as a result allowing the Cheatriots to get back in the game. It is truly disgusting the way the officials favor them. Then Cindy has the balls to tell the press that Harbaugh should read the rule book. On Monday the commissioner should have told the world that he was sending the Ravens to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl because he was done with the Cheatriots making a travesty of the game and thinking they are above it. He could have defended his decision by sending the team that was much more competitive against the cheaters and most likely would have won that game if his official did not let the Cheatriots get 44 yards plus a 15 yard penalty on a drive by using deception and not telling the refs who was ineligible until a second before the ball was snapped. This season has been a joke for the NFL and it does not have the right leader in place and it needs one who is beyond anything unbiased and would never consider being close with an owner and then protecting that team when evidence was found that he knew he could not let surface without taking back three Super Bowl Titles. At the end of the day all someone has is their reputation and to be in a position like that they number one trait someone needs is integrity and Roger we know you lost all of that the moment the flames burned out wiping away all the evidence.
Nothing they did in the Ravens game was illegal so why should they get a free pass to the super bowl when the colts made it to the AFC championship even if they did get destroyed.
Dude the Owners pay Goodells salary,Your sitting there saying he should never be close with an owner?That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard
If you were making 44 million a year aren't you gonna try and do as much ass kissing as possible with the people paying you?
Yea......11 of the 12 balls just happen to deflate but nothing happend to the Colts balls.See this is the explantion the league wants you to belive so Superbowl week goes on without incident and obviously some people are already buying it
this is simply embarrassing. A handful of balls weren't inflated to the proper level for one half of a game in which the team that was to benefit from the ruse actually did BETTER after they were corrected. Any plausible explanation that takes the Pats off the hook is going to be accepted by the NFL. Its been fun exploiting the Pats' fans pathetic existential crisis over this, but there is a reason this infraction leads to a minor fine.
He is close only to an elite subgroup of few selected owners. Those that keep his sorry ass in office. Fuck the prick.
That's what some people don't realize,If any other team got caught doing this its a $25,000 dollar fine,guys get fined more for end zone celebrations and cursing at refs.But since it was the Pats and the afc title game this is why the circus has come to town
Please, that was absolute BS. It only happened to the NE balls, not the Colts? Did they have different weather conditions? LOL
It's amazing how many cold weather games are played a year and this never happens. It's pathetic what Patriots fans are saying. My cousin keeps saying that the Patriots weren't the ones to deflate the balls. It's all just a conspiracy to screw them over.
Wouldn't this depend on how pumped they were to start with? i.e. Pats like them right on 12.5 when inspected and hence they go underweight in the conditions, whereas the Colts balls were 13.5 and so went down but were still within range. Don't get me wrong, I still reckon something's fishy with those balls after the officials Ok'd them, I'm just playing devil's advocate.
Brady did it! When they asked him(Brady) if Tom Brady is cheater, it looked like he wanted to say, YEAH!
Bellichik is a lying fuck, and if you believe his story then you are just lying to yourself. Once a thief always a thief. They stole 3 SB trophys and are now getting a chance to steal a 4th. The NFL lets this slide and it becomes MLB of the hierarchy of US sports.
