District Attorney - just me being over-dramatic about the scenario.JimBoSox9 said:
Who is DA in this lawsuit?
I don't know, but I agree with you. The whole operation smacks of amateur hour antics by Goodell underlings with axes to grind.Does anyone know if Paul, Weiss was involved in the initial interviews in Boston? It struck me as interesting that they announced PW's involvement on Friday a couple days after the various Patriots employees had been interviewed, leaks were springing all over the place, Schefter had said the league was having trouble finding any evidence of wrongdoing, etc. My gut reaction is that they brought in Wells to fix a fucked up investigation that the league had started.
Koufax said:Back to the T&R statement that the balls were delivered underinflated. Looking at the transcript of Saturday's BB statement to the press, it seems likely. The transcript reads: "When the footballs are delivered to the officials locker room, the officials were asked to inflate them to 12.5 psi." That certainly suggests that the team knew that the balls were underinflated at the time of delivery and was putting the onus on the officials to correct them. I can well imagine that the officials felt the balls and decided to do nothing because they felt fine.
norm from cheers said:It figures a Ravens fan would create a petition to oust Patriots from SB. 40,000 Signatures !!!!!
Scott Latshaw
Jan 27, 2015 — A week later we now know the balls were intentionally deflated in the Raven's game as well. The locker room attendant the NFL has been questioning will eventually spill his guts and make the connection to Brady. Although it's the 11th hour, I will always believe in miracles. Thanks to everyone who signed the petition !!! We made The Sporting News !!!
https://www.change.org/p/nfl-immediately-disqualify-patriots-and-replay-afc-championship-between-the-colts-and-ravens/u/9430226
No, but I thought that SOMEONE would be willing to be contrarian enough to go all-in and take a giant shit on Goodell, the Colts and all of the shit-slingers.OnWisc said:Are you also still waiting for the US Basketball team to get their gold medals from the 1972 Olympics?
Since my Quote function may not be working (as others have found to be their case), let me begin by indicating that I'm responding to Don Buddin at #10519. Please sympathize with me that I've retired to Baltimore (very much remaining a Patriots fan) and so I was tuned into WJZ-FM about a half hour ago when a caller reported (that it had been reported that) the locker room/ball attendant was ...Steve Belichick, of all people. I had imagined that I have been doing well in keeping up with this enormous thread, and I do believe I'm still seeing references to a not publicly identified attendant. Accordingly I'm now wondering whether the next silliness-turn of this story is going to be the positive public-identification of the attendant - and I'm wondering if our Don Buddin picked the name Stevie out of his Tochas or whether he had heard someone toss this onto the flame at some point.
JimD said:Not to give Goodell's Gang That Can't Shoot Straight any ideas, but it should be a simple matter of checking the security camera footage from the Baltimore game to see if the attendant made a side trip to the bathroom on that day also.
JimD said:Not to give Goodell's Gang That Can't Shoot Straight any ideas, but it should be a simple matter of checking the security camera footage from the Baltimore game to see if the attendant made a side trip to the bathroom on that day also.
JimD said:Not to give Goodell's Gang That Can't Shoot Straight any ideas, but it should be a simple matter of checking the security camera footage from the Baltimore game to see if the attendant made a side trip to the bathroom on that day also.
Which, unfortunately, would provide no useful or relevant information.JimD said:Not to give Goodell's Gang That Can't Shoot Straight any ideas, but it should be a simple matter of checking the security camera footage from the Baltimore game to see if the attendant made a side trip to the bathroom on that day also.
DegenerateSoxFan said:I'm still waiting for some member of the media to point out that no one has produced any evidence whatsoever that the Pats deliberately broke the rules.
Then I remember that these are the same bleating Nancy Grace wannabes that deliberately failed to mention (and still do) that "spygate" wasn't about stealing signals, but simply the location of the camera.
I really hope that the Pats are at least 1/10 as pissed off as I am about this.
You said you're from CT and can't trust Kraft. Someone questioned your statement and provided reasons to the contrary.Return of the Dewey said:Agree to disagree.
Devizier said:Folks, take a second to realize that the national media is pretty much moving on from this. They got nothin'.
ESPN's website has basically moved on from this.
All that's left is the trolls. Don't feed the trolls.
kartvelo said:Which, unfortunately, would provide no useful or relevant information.
Suppose Steve Belichick only takes the balls into the restroom to deflate them on the days when he's seen gauges used and balls pumped to regulation psi? Suppose he knows that wasn't done at the Balt game, so there was no need to duck into the restroom with his super-spy deflate-o-device?
riboflav said:
You and I must be looking at different ESPN homepages.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:You said you're from CT and can't trust Kraft. Someone questioned your statement and provided reasons to the contrary.
You've yet to provide anything factual as to why Kraft is untrustworthy, but tried backing out of the discussion with the ever smarmy, "agree to disagree."
I think you may suck.
Maybe dude has a little ritual of his own where he has a cup of coffee sometime before the game, and more often than not he ends up needing to take a leak before going out to the sidelines?JimD said:Not to give Goodell's Gang That Can't Shoot Straight any ideas, but it should be a simple matter of checking the security camera footage from the Baltimore game to see if the attendant made a side trip to the bathroom on that day also.
Don't worry right now it has a story about all the pieces/players teams need to be a Superbowl team. They have the Jets as the 14 closest team based on good/elite players on their roster and the Colts at 20th.drleather2001 said:I refuse to look at ESPN ever again.
EDIT: which is really a shame, because I remember back in 2004/2005, it had some fun stuff about the Patriots being in the Superbowl back then. Pieces from Klosterman, Simmons, other Page 2 writers blogging about Media Day antics etc...
Now it's got nothing worth reading.
JimBoSox9 said:
Who is DA in this lawsuit?
Thanks...you've given me a rooting interest in the SB now.Kenny F'ing Powers said:You said you're from CT and can't trust Kraft. Someone questioned your statement and provided reasons to the contrary.
You've yet to provide anything factual as to why Kraft is untrustworthy, but tried backing out of the discussion with the ever smarmy, "agree to disagree."
I think you may suck.
Not sure they're in the heads of the Seahawks, but point taken.wiffleballhero said:When the dust settles there has got to be at least a small part of the Patriots inner group that is going to look back and love an element of this. Is there any other team that has ever been so totally in the heads of their opponents? This make Lucchino calling the Yankees the 'evil empire' seem like simply nothing.
But the Pats have got to win this game to drive the stake through the heart of the haters.
For christs sake, these guys could fuck up an open bar.Corsi said:Ted Wells issues statement: DeflateGate investigation could take "at least" several more weeks.
https://twitter.com/caplannfl/status/559833298931691520
link to tweet
Per Shelter and me -- the lawyers probably have to redo all the stuff that was done internally by NFL.For christs sake, these guys could fuck up an open bar.
Judging from your group thought mentality you've shown, I think you're rooting interest was already established, chief.Return of the Dewey said:Thanks...you've given me a rooting interest in the SB now.
Hoya81 said:
kartvelo said:Does anyone really think that BB and RK would have said the things they did, the way they did, if they hadn't already grilled every single person who had any chance at all to come into even momentary contact with those footballs on game day?
It really depends on what they're investigating. IF this whole affair were all the result of, say, Kensil or someone else with an axe to grind, and IF there's no evidence of any wrongdoing because there wasn't any wrongdoing, and IF there's somebody systematically leaking deliberately misleading info out of the league offices to make the Pats look bad, and IF the investigators are truly independent and interested in getting to the bottom of whatever, as Kraft put it, happened on Sunday, the delay could be excellent news, and the results could be delicious.Old Fart Tree said:For christs sake, these guys could fuck up an open bar.
mt8thsw9th said:
HIS FATHER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX347nrc5IE
8slim said:
Especially Kraft.
There is absolutely no reason for him to say what he did yesterday unless he was supremely confident that the Pats did not engage in anything nefarious.
I keep saying this to people who use The-Benign-Signal-Taping-From-The-Sideline-Instead-Of-From-The-Booth Controversey (a.k.a. "Spygate") as the prime example of the Pats cheating heart... They admitted that and accepted the draconian punishment. They never lied about what they did in that situation. In the one case where they were confronted with breaking a league rule the organization copped to it, apologized to the other 31 NFL owners, and took their medicine.
But they're lying now, because...?
kartvelo said:It really depends on what they're investigating. IF this whole affair were all the result of, say, Kensil or someone else with an axe to grind, and IF there's no evidence of any wrongdoing because there wasn't any wrongdoing, and IF there's somebody systematically leaking deliberately misleading info out of the league offices to make the Pats look bad, and IF the investigators are truly independent and interested in getting to the bottom of whatever, as Kraft put it, happened on Sunday, the delay could be excellent news, and the results could be delicious.
You may say I'm a dreamer...
Don't forget Brady. That lying bastard.drleather2001 said:
Because Bill Belichick is a liar. Because he cheated that one time.
Try and keep up.
drleather2001 said:
Because Bill Belichick is a liar. Because he cheated that one time.
Try and keep up.
Best one in at least 1000 posts.Curt S Loew said:Too bad the ballboy didn't go into an elevator. They would have never checked the tape. This league is a joke.
Probably beats his wife, too. I mean, we have no proof he doesn't. And he has plenty of opportunity, he's around her a lot (I assume).kartvelo said:Don't forget Brady. That lying bastard.