Maybe becasue the vice president of game operations personally checked the Patriots footballs at halftime and found them to be underinflated? You think the "Ball stealing" NFL guy and "His supervisors" decided to steal approved footballs, then replace them with underinflated footballs, and then draw attention to themselves by checking the pressure of those unapproved footballs at halftime? Oh, and they also only happened to be stealing and replacing Patriot footballs. None of the Colts footballs were stolen and replaced with underinflated footballs. Cool story!
Well, we'll find out soon enough. The NFL has to come to a resolution on this before they close the investigation and that resolution will tell us what we need to know.
So next year there will be a climate controlled Brinks truck with the NFL and Wilson logos on the side parked next to the ambulance under the stands at every stadium. Right after the teams take the field a platoon of NFL Ballwatchers will wheel a huge box onto the field like pallbearers at a funeral - kind of like the show the NHL makes at the Stanley cup of the tuxedoed, white gloved keepers of the cup. (Of course, two days later some third line Dman is puking in that cup and leaving it in the trunk of his Honda.) What should these ballwatchers wear? Do they wear tuxedoes or does Nike (over)design some garish red white and blue takeoff on Star Wars uniforms or do these guys go full military with gillies and automatic weapons?
Next year the NFL will likely be handling ALL the ball issues including providing the balls used in the game. The teams won't have a pool of balls of their own to play with, they'll have a random ball out of the shared pool. It's a disgrace that the NFL allowed such an antiquated practice as having the teams provide their own balls in the first place. They probably need to update dozens of similarly poorly conceived rules that dated back to the time when sportsmanship was more important than winning. You know: 2000 before Belichik took over the Patriots and turned them into the Cheatriots.
Looks like the "Ball stealing" NFL guy was outed by the Patriots. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...alerted-nfl-to-issue-with-special-teams-ball/ Then, somehow, the previously inspected balls for the Patriots are called into question at halftime. Scott Miller was already pinched, the attention had already been called to him. By the Patriots He had access to the balls. BUT THE PATRIOTS DID IT! The story is cool!
Obviously, the Patriots were calling attention to ball inconsistencies in order to try and fly under the radar with their tampering with ball consistencies... WILL THEY STOP AT NOTHING? lol
I'm sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation of the upcoming draft. Ha, ha, man oh man, life is good. Looking forward to those summer practices........a hundred guys trying to impress, wow. They'll be some holes to fill, trust Bill Belichick to drop some players no one else would, but it improves the team. Remember, Mankins last year, that was un-be-lieve-able. Look what we got in return. Oh, man oh man oh man, life, football, New England, what's not to rave about. No hard feelings, best wishes to both the New Jersey teams.
Why wouldn't the Patriots raise the issue to the game officials? The guy stole a special team ball that was prepped how the Patriots wanted it and replaced it with one that wasn't. The Patriots noticed on the extra-point attempt that the ball had not been prepped the same way that K1 had been prepped. I find it curious that the Patriots can tell the difference with the way a kicking ball is prepped, but can't tell the difference between a ball inflated to league regulations and ones that aren't. I'm not sure what this has to do with the investigation of underinflated footballs used by the Patriots. It says it right in the article you posted: So what does all of this mean? As it relates to the question of whether footballs intentionally were deflated by the Patriots, nothing. Are you personally trying to imply that it was Scott Miller who deflated the Patriots footballs after he got caught stealing a K ball? Yeah, that is a cool story.
So now the Patriots are the good guys and the rest of the league are cheaters. Pretty hilarious and very pathetic. Go to confession, admit your sins, take your punishment like adults and go forward with your putrid lives.
Ted Wells has his work cut out for him. We know these balls were underinflated how? Conflicting rumors anyone? I said it at the start and I'll say it again. The NFL didn't keep a log of the ball pressures. It didn't measure the temperature of the balls when measuring the pressure. The guys at Carnegie Mellon did a pretty good demonstration of how game conditions could lead to a 2 psi drop in pressure. They have no idea how much air was in the balls at the start and at the end. Anyone with a background in physical chemistry knows this. The equation of state of an ideal gas includes both pressure and temperature. You have to know both.
We know all this. Bellichick has already explained it in GREAT detail in his presser. Atmospheric conditions as it were. But not on the Colts side of the field. _
what are you even talking about? nothing you said is relevant to any of the facts of this situation in any way at all. you sound like a complete moron and i feel stupid for even responding to you
i love how a bunch of people that have likely never taken a college level physics course in their lives have become such experts on all things relating to pressure and temperature and gases and the ideal gas law. hey can anyone of yous guys out there tells me what an ideals gases is?
Never mind, Spring is on the way and the warm weather will re-inflate the balls and Rex Ryan's bag of bullsh*t. But mind no matter, in New England, anticipation will be in the air. A new season, new haters, a nice new shiny ring, more new haters, still more new rings. I can't wait, spring and summer in Foxboro, it doesn't get any better than this. Listen to the all the frogs croak the Colts, Ravens, and Seahawks fans croak, Mr. Forty Million Dollar a Year Man croak. It's so uplifting.
I love hearing grade school pre-teens trying to explain physics' sh*t way over their head. Someone ask them to point out, on a map, the location of Canada.
Yes, you're starting to see the light about who the villains are in this case. And the common thread in all of it involves the 20 year Jets employee and inveterate Pats hater Mike Kensil, now in charge of NFL game ops.
I think you meant shoplifting? Ah spring, time to watch Hernandez murder trial. Cheating, lying, murderous scum. Have fun explaining it to your kids. You've "won" nothing except another *
