More power to him. He cracked me up. Whyyyyyyyy Not!Monbo Jumbo said:He is 100 years old and still with us.
More power to him. He cracked me up. Whyyyyyyyy Not!Monbo Jumbo said:He is 100 years old and still with us.
Hendu At The Wall said:Every day I come by SoSH and I check BBtL. And we post. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I load the page and when I scan the topics, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll see the messages and this thread won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. It just left. I don't know much, but I know that.
It is almost time to gotta go see about the Patriots unleashing its wrath on Seattle tommorow!Hendu At The Wall said:Every day I come by SoSH and I check BBtL. And we post. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I load the page and when I scan the topics, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll see the messages and this thread won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. It just left. I don't know much, but I know that.
scotian1 said:The CBS boys especially Boomer Esiason doing a job on the Patriots this morning on the NFL Network. Boomer especially blaming the Patriot attendant for the loss of air in the ball. Certainly a different take from his appearance on EEI yesterday.
http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports/newengland/football/patriots/2015/01/30/boomer-esiason-on-dc-super-bowl-will-be-struggle-for-both-offenses/
To carry your metaphor Chucky, you then went to Sean's apartment as Will was leaving the note, grabbed him, tossed him in your car, and dragged him to the latest demo job.Hendu At The Wall said:Every day I come by SoSH and I check BBtL. And we post. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I load the page and when I scan the topics, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll see the messages and this thread won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. It just left. I don't know much, but I know that.
FWIW, Harris is asking favorite sport, which is a curiosity but ultimately irrelevant because that's not how people consume sports. Most people have more than one favorite, of course. There are polls that ask about level of interest by sport and those are much more correlated to things like TV ratings, etc.Harry Hooper said:
Welcome to the Fold. We happy few, we happy few are becoming a multitude...drbretto said:This "scandal" has had exactly one effect on me. Before this, I was a pretty passive football fan. Mostly because I guess I believed the hype about those obnoxious pats fans. Those Brady worshipong, Bellichick apologizing nutjobs. It's intimidating, and I wasn't sure I really wanted to be a part of that.
Myth confirmed sometime around 2005 or so when those obnoxious pats fans started calling Tom Brady the best quarterback that ever lived after just a few years in the league. Then again when spygate came out and no one could admit they were cheaters from the top down.
Then, this deflate gate thing blows the fuck up and I can't help be be interested. Mostly because (and I blame sosh for this) I can't ignore rampant bullshit in the media.
So I dug in deeper, largely due to thoughts and links in this thread, and it didn't even take that long to see the obvious truth.
They didn't cheat here. Spygate WAS bullshit. And you guys were the first group of people to recognize that Tom Brady was going to end up being the greatest quarterback of all time. Pats fans were right about everything. Everything.
I'm damn proud to call myself a Patriots fan. Can't wait for the game.
WOW this awesome.NortheasternPJ said:https://twitter.com/onlyinbos/status/561513017481781249
Wilson divulged that they pressurize the footballs to 100 PSI and then depressurize to 13PSI.Devizier said:The assumption that volume and molecules of gas remain unchanged is also unlikely, although the change is probably more negligible.
How strong are the valves on a football anyways?
And still assumes that the refs actually bothered to check the psi pre-game, which is, I think, highly unlikely given what we've seen these past 10 days or so.jimbobim said:WOW this awesome.
drleather2001 said:Goodell will like being called God.
It's not your fault . . . it's not your fault.Hendu At The Wall said:Every day I come by SoSH and I check BBtL. And we post. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I load the page and when I scan the topics, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll see the messages and this thread won't be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. It just left. I don't know much, but I know that.
Don't you fuck with me, Sean, not you!Rough Carrigan said:It's not your fault . . . it's not your fault.
scotian1 said:Given these results is it any wonder why people prefer conspiracy vs science.
http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-rankings-2013-12
He told us he talked to the media almost daily, a particularly bold claim given that he disappeared into his ivory tower, presumably the one on the Maine coast, for weeks when the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson disasters reached peak chaos. An occasional meetup with Peter King for chili does not count as talking to the media.
He suggested that commercials in which famous people, including an two-time Academy Award-winning actress, cry on cue for the cameras, signifies some sort of heartwarming progression with the league's domestic violence crisis. I suspect Goodell admires them because they can fake emotion so effectively and get paid lots of money to do so.
crystalline said:I suspect Goodell DOES talk to the media almost daily. And I bet that means he talks on the phone to King and Mort and a few others.
We know he doesn't talk on the record to media more than once every two weeks at most. So why would he say something like that? There's little PR reason to do it especially given the risk of backlash. My only guess is that he let it out because he believes it is true, and that he has off the record conversations with media frequently. And he thinks that counts as talking to the media.
I was giving Goodell the benefit of the doubt about the leaks- that he wasn't the leaker and he was only guilty of not stopping his subordinates from leaking. Now I wonder if he was the one feeding the lines to Mort and King.
Harry Hooper said:Chad Finn rendered the Commish into bite-size filets. Lots of good lines in this piece, but here's a taste:
Since you can start between 12.5 and 13.5Al Zarilla said:Everything is great except for the conclusion where he says every football would be in a range between 11.2 and 12.2 PSI. Why such a wide range, especially since we found out this week all NFL game footballs are made at the same Wilson plant (I think)?
DennyDoyle'sBoil said:Yeah, it was almost a softball, because it was so bad.
Her question was actually a little different from whether the league has a conflict, even more preposterous, and actually quite anti-Patriots. Her question was, if Kraft is paying you, and you are paying Wells, how do we know Wells will be fair? I think that the answer he gave was right for the first 80 percent of it, or so, though it was inarticulate. His "somebody has to pay them" line is kind of correct, though kind of clumsy. What he really should have said is the league is there to protect the league, and all the owners, and to suggest that a guy like Wells is going to tank an investigation because indirectly the fee he charges will be paid about 3 percent by Robert Kraft is preposterous.
The part about "are you volunteering" was flippant, unnecessary, and belittling, and he should pick up the phone and tell her that personally.
I think part of where he got flummoxed was that with the Rice investigation, there were actually legitimate conflict of interest questions, given the close relationship of league officials, and especially Ravens officials, with Mueller's firm. Goddell thought she was asking "the same" question, when actually she was asking a very silly question, and he is not very good on his feet so he reacted in a poor way.
Right, but he didn't say that, unless that's the asterisk.PBDWake said:Since you can start between 12.5 and 13.5
Or even well outside that range, if the refs check only by feel.PBDWake said:Since you can start between 12.5 and 13.5
There's no asterisk needed. He runs the math for 12.5 and it concludes at 11.2, no range. He explains that any ball properly inflated at 75 will be between 11.2 and 12.2 at 49. Properly inflated, as defined by the NFL, is 12.5-13.5Al Zarilla said:Right, but he didn't say that, unless that's the asterisk.
PBDWake said:There's no asterisk needed. He runs the math for 12.5 and it concludes at 11.2, no range. He explains that any ball properly inflated at 75 will be between 11.2 and 12.2 at 49. Properly inflated, as defined by the NFL, is 12.5-13.5
Made my day: my 15 y/o is focusing on math and science while taking Chinese for his language req.scotian1 said:Given these results is it any wonder why people prefer conspiracy vs science.
http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-rankings-2013-12
This post makes me feel all tingly insidedrbretto said:This "scandal" has had exactly one effect on me. Before this, I was a pretty passive football fan. Mostly because I guess I believed the hype about those obnoxious pats fans. Those Brady worshipong, Bellichick apologizing nutjobs. It's intimidating, and I wasn't sure I really wanted to be a part of that.
Myth confirmed sometime around 2005 or so when those obnoxious pats fans started calling Tom Brady the best quarterback that ever lived after just a few years in the league. Then again when spygate came out and no one could admit they were cheaters from the top down.
Then, this deflate gate thing blows the fuck up and I can't help be be interested. Mostly because (and I blame sosh for this) I can't ignore rampant bullshit in the media.
So I dug in deeper, largely due to thoughts and links in this thread, and it didn't even take that long to see the obvious truth.
They didn't cheat here. Spygate WAS bullshit. And you guys were the first group of people to recognize that Tom Brady was going to end up being the greatest quarterback of all time. Pats fans were right about everything. Everything.
I'm damn proud to call myself a Patriots fan. Can't wait for the game.
How so?ifmanis5 said:CNN doing a Super Bowl show hosted by Rachel Nichols. It's a shitshow already.
From your post to God's eyeballs dude. Fuck all the haters. After all this nonsense, I want the Pats to not only win but to slaughter the Seahawks and then bask in the glow of all the misery coming from all those who were rooting against them.Old Fart Tree said:All of this nonsense has just ramped my bloodlust to "criminally insane" levels for tomorrow's game. Seattle is really, really good, but I hope they run a fucking train on them tomorrow.
DeJesus Built My Hotrod said:From your post to God's eyeballs dude. Fuck all the haters. After all this nonsense, I want the Pats to not only win but to slaughter the Seahawks and then bask in the glow of all the misery coming from all those who were rooting against them.
Mark Schofield said:They better win this game, because I need to be able to watch the video of the remarks Belichick makes to this team tonight.
Frisbetarian said:Yeah, I want blood.
And it's not about the Seahawks even a little - hell, I love Marshawn 'New Jack' Lynch. I want destruction and devastation in this game to fuck the NLF, and to fuck the Colts, and to fuck the Ravens, and most of all to fuck the media, and especially to fuck the Boston media who jumped all over the deflate bandwagon.