#DFG: Canceling the Noise

Is there any level of suspension that you would advise Tom to accept?


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cymbaline777

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cymbaline777 said:
It seems like they've attracted their attention! In a Stalinist touch I'd love to see Goodell edited out of any Lombardi trophy photos if we win! Off to the Gulag with you Goodell!
 
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It's going to be snowy and they'll be tailed by the KGB the whole time?
 

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Can we get the Commish to sit on a dunk tank filled with urine. We'll raise a ton of $ for charity, Rog!
 

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Sad they they can't let it go, but good news that they immediately recognize 90 seconds is inadequate for deflation.
 
The other twitter theory is simply that it doesn't take any man 90 seconds to do his business so he must have been up to no good.
 

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cymbaline777 said:
It seems like they've attracted their attention! In a Stalinist touch I'd love to see Goodell edited out of any Lombardi trophy photos if we win! Off to the Gulag with you Goodell!
 
Why would they edit Goodell out of a picture in which he's being utterly emasculated?  If it were up to me It would be projected onto the side of Gillette Stadium for the next 20 years.
 
TBH though I'm absolutely terrified that the Pats are going to get screwed by awful calls throughout the game, given the concerted effort by the league to smear them for the past 8 days.
 

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I'm at the point now where fixing this league would be a lost cause. Win this Super Bowl and then go 19-0 next year. Then Brady and Belichick can retire together as undisputed GOAT QB and coach and I can start watching the fucking CFL or some shit.
 
Edit: You know what, I'll strike the first part of my response.  Don't want to get ahead of myself.
 
So one game at a time.  WIN.  THIS.  GAME.
 

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riboflav said:
 
The other twitter theory is simply that it doesn't take any man 90 seconds to do his business so he must have been up to no good.
 
 
Hate to ask, but 90 sec. is too short or too long?
 

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One other point. To do all the balls you need to take them all out and put them back in one at a time so you don't deflate the same ball twice. I'd really like to see someone do this in 90 seconds.
 

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Jettisoned said:
 
Why would they edit Goodell out of a picture in which he's being utterly emasculated?  If it were up to me It would be projected onto the side of Gillette Stadium for the next 20 years.
 
TBH though I'm absolutely terrified that the Pats are going to get screwed by awful calls throughout the game, given the concerted effort by the league to smear them for the past 8 days.
 
yeah. this is where i'm at too. no gamethreading for me during the SB, this place always makes me feel like a fucking truther.
 

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Someday a movie is going to be made of this, and the climactic scene will feature Ted Wells and a team of bespoke attorneys from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, etc (my brother used to work there btw) seated around a large conference table at the Renaissance Patriot Place, surrounding Stevie from Brockton (whose fly will be open), grilling him about photos of the Stadium shitter projected on a screen.
 

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Playing Bill Simmons advocate here, with a wacky conspiracy theory: The Patriots know Brady has been doing this. The PATRIOTS tip off the NFL. NFL does have the smoking gun- Kraft knows it. Belichick knows it. Belichick throws it to Brady's court- Brady denies. Belichick backs up Brady.  Kraft knows Brady is going to be exposed as a liar, so professes total confidence in him- and when the shoe drops- Total betrayal!  and they now can release Brady without any backlash.
 
I dont believe it- but wouldn't that be something
 

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DennyDoyle'sBoil said:
One other point. To do all the balls you need to take them all out and put them back in one at a time so you don't deflate the same ball twice. I'd really like to see someone do this in 90 seconds.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I think it's doable. All you'd have to do is line them all up on the floor, put a pin in each one for 1-2 seconds, and throw them back in the bag. Also, just to play devil's advocate here, if the guy's taking a piss then why not leave the balls outside the bathroom?
 

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BimblemansLight said:
Playing Bill Simmons advocate here, with a wacky conspiracy theory: The Patriots know Brady has been doing this. The PATRIOTS tip off the NFL. NFL does have the smoking gun- Kraft knows it. Belichick knows it. Belichick throws it to Brady's court- Brady denies. Belichick backs up Brady.  Kraft knows Brady is going to be exposed as a liar, so professes total confidence in him- and when the shoe drops- Total betrayal!  and they now can release Brady without any backlash.
 
I dont believe it- but wouldn't that be something
except the backlash of not having a qb anymore
 

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Madmartigan said:
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I think it's doable. All you'd have to do is line them all up on the floor, put a pin in each one for 1-2 seconds, and throw them back in the bag. Also, just to play devil's advocate here, if the guy's taking a piss then why not leave the balls outside the bathroom?
 
 
Because you are responsible for them, and are instructed not to let them out of your sight.
 

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BimblemansLight said:
Playing Bill Simmons advocate here, with a wacky conspiracy theory: The Patriots know Brady has been doing this. The PATRIOTS tip off the NFL. NFL does have the smoking gun- Kraft knows it. Belichick knows it. Belichick throws it to Brady's court- Brady denies. Belichick backs up Brady.  Kraft knows Brady is going to be exposed as a liar, so professes total confidence in him- and when the shoe drops- Total betrayal!  and they now can release Brady without any backlash.
 
I dont believe it- but wouldn't that be something
 
Chris Carter? Is that you?
 

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riboflav said:
 
Too long. 
It's not like he's pissing for 90 straight seconds. It's 90 seconds from the time he walks into the room, sidles up to the urinal, unzips, aims, pisses, shakes, tucks, zips, hopefully washes his hands and walks out.
 

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Madmartigan said:
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I think it's doable. All you'd have to do is line them all up on the floor, put a pin in each one for 1-2 seconds, and throw them back in the bag. Also, just to play devil's advocate here, if the guy's taking a piss then why not leave the balls outside the bathroom?
Because he's supposed to prevent anyone from tampering with them.
 

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When does the NFL start investigating why highly specific details about an investigation supposedly about integrity of the game are being leaked to reporters?
 
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Madmartigan said:
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I think it's doable. All you'd have to do is line them all up on the floor, put a pin in each one for 1-2 seconds, and throw them back in the bag. Also, just to play devil's advocate here, if the guy's taking a piss then why not leave the balls outside the bathroom?
Why not leave them outside the bathroom? Unattended? Jesus H. You're joking, right?
 

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Just watched Sportscenter for five minutes. Huge mistake. Chris Carter is a special kind of stupid. I have no-one to blame but myself.
Awesome to hear him say that the Patriots have "insulted his intelligence" in all of this.
 

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Marciano490 said:
It's not like he's pissing for 90 straight seconds. It's 90 seconds from the time he walks into the room, sidles up to the urinal, unzips, aims, pisses, shakes, tucks, zips, hopefully washes his hands and walks out.
And finds the least urine soaked surface on which to place his bag of balls, checks his Facebook, looks at him self in the mirror, etc. This guy wasn't trying to catch the last flight out of Berlin.
 

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MarcSullivaFan said:
And finds the least urine soaked surface on which to place his bag of balls, checks his Facebook, looks at him self in the mirror, etc. This guy wasn't trying to catch the last flight out of Berlin.
 
Don't you think though that he had to know that his time in the bathroom would be most scrutinized piss in the history of piss? What the hell was he doing?!?!
 

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CSNNE anchor, "Kraft wants apology if the Patriots are declared innocent."  === FAIL
 

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riboflav said:
 
Don't you think though that he had to know that his time in the bathroom would be most scrutinized piss in the history of piss? What the hell was he doing?!?!
 
 
Usual pre-game ritual?
 

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Mugsy's Walk-Off Bunt said:
Why not leave them outside the bathroom? Unattended? Jesus H. You're joking, right?
No, I'm not. Isn't the bathroom in question inside the tunnel, which is loaded with security and inaccessible to the public?
 

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Kull said:
 
So right about now, guys like Glazer, Mort and King have to be fuming right? Florio is totally punking them. They've been played like fools and they know it. What is their next move?
Please. King's about to report that the investigation won't finish until after the Super Bowl because Janay Rice's impassioned pleas for leniency for Tom Brady.

These guys are all hacks that care nothing about journalism. When you grant anonymity to people who aren't facing danger should their names become known, you're basicall just begging for your source to use you as a mouthpiece.

There is absolutely no incentive to be right, only to be first and ubiquitous, and to flit from leak to leak.
 

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Rachel Nichols ‏@Rachel__Nichols  10m10 minutes ago
Sal Paolantonio on ESPN: "As one source close to the #Patriots told me, this was Robert Kraft reminding Roger Goodell who he works for."
 
No Sal, you're source simply never saw Pulp Fiction
 
Goodell as Vincent Vega: i heard from Jim you had deflated footballs, i am so angry, i am like a race car in the red ready to blow..
 
Kraft as Jules Winnfield: Oh you ready to blow? Well I'm a mushroom cloud laying mother fucker, mother fucker. Every time i hear of ball-gate, I'm super-sly TNT. I'm the guns of the Naverone. IN FACT... WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING IN A PRESSER? You the mother fucker who should be eating shit fro the press.. We fucking switching.
 

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riboflav said:
 
Don't you think though that he had to know that his time in the bathroom would be most scrutinized piss in the history of piss? What the hell was he doing?!?!
 
 
June 23, 2015: NFL issues new directive that all ball attendants will be required to wear Depends™ while on duty.
 
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Madmartigan said:
No, I'm not. Isn't the bathroom in question inside the tunnel, which is loaded with security and inaccessible to the public?
It's his job to keep track of the balls. He's not just leaving them outside while he goes to take a piss for a minute and a half. Can you imagine the shit storm we would be hearing over the next few days if he had let them out of his sight? Can you imagine how much LESS plausible that excuse would be compared to "I had to take a leak before standing on the sidelines for two hours"-gate?
 

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In the interest of science I just took a piss because we were challenged. Granted, I've been drinking, because, hey, no work tomorrow but... After a complete pee and a basic washing of my hands (meaning, running them under water, no soap, I'm gross) and rushing I came to 94 seconds. And that was kind of rushing. No joke. But I'm sure we'll see this on Mythbusters. Try it yourselves, kind of fun.
 

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Belichick said today on Dale and Holley that he has not "been involved" with the NFL and the investigation. We know the NFL hasn't talked with Brady but I wasn't sure about BB until today.
 

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What's more likely, that the ball boy went into the bathroom for 90 seconds to nefariously deflate footballs, or he went in there to take a piss? 

Obviously, he did both. I myself just did a very thorough and scientific experiment. It took me 65 seconds to take a piss and wash my hands. So, this ball boy was clearly trained by the mastermind Belichick to deflate 11 footballs in the span of 25 seconds. 
 

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Myt1 said:
Please. King's about to report that the investigation won't finish until after the Super Bowl because Janay Rice's impassioned pleas for leniency for Tom Brady.

These guys are all hacks that care nothing about journalism. When you grant anonymity to people who aren't facing danger should their names become known, you're basicall just begging for your source to use you as a mouthpiece.

There is absolutely no incentive to be right, only to be first and ubiquitous, and to flit from leak to leak.
 
Just saying that their source is setting them up to look like parrots while Florio rides off into the sunset as the guy who broke the real story. Maybe there's no journalistic integrity, but these are the big name guys and now they look like chumps.
 

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riboflav said:
 
Don't you think though that he had to know that his time in the bathroom would be most scrutinized piss in the history of piss? What the hell was he doing?!?!
 
How would he know that? The super-secret double probation investigation wasn't something Patriots employees knew about ahead of time.
 

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Myt1 said:
There is absolutely no incentive to be right, only to be first and ubiquitous, and to flit from leak to leak.
Between the poor ball boy's micturition habits coming under scrutiny and the constant drip of anonymously sourced info to reporters, this has become #leakileaks.
 

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On a more serious note, a bunch of people use their phones on the pisser. If this kid was using his phone either texting or online, those records should exist.