Awesome. Then everyone could accuse him of paying off the scientists. Cheating again!Ferm Sheller said:
#DFG: Canceling the Noise
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Ferm Sheller said:
"On behalf of Thomas Brady, William Belichick and the entire Patriots organization..."
Remember how everyone made fun of ABA player Marvin Barnes because he wouldn't get on a plane leaving Louisville at 8:00 and arriving in St. Louis at 7:55 because the only possible explanation was that it was a time machine? All these people in the media and elsewhere who determined that the only way pressure can drop in a football is through sneaky human manipulation just proved themselves to be basically at the same intellectual level as Barnes.
GregHarris said:
Because if the Colts balls didn't drop, it may be evidence that they (a) overinflated the balls beyond the legal limit or (b) tampered with the balls.
GregHarris said:
This is where we enter the death spiral of speculation. Were the Colts balls over-inflated slightly to the point that when they deflated they still fell within the 12.5-13.5 PSI range. We'll never know because Walt Anderson....
GregHarris said:
This boy needs some A B Cs...
a) Not a $1M question. Probably more along the lines of a $1.50 question, or something that a minimum wage stringer could come up with in 10 min
b) The NFL doesn't "have" to tell you jack. Heck, they haven't told AN OWNER WHO THEY'RE SLANDERING jack.
c) What GregHarris said
Is there going to be a game thread for Goodell's press conference? I would like someplace to write a constant stream of obscenities about him.
BrazilianSoxFan said:
Or, more likely, that in the time it took them to measure the Patriots balls that they simply returned to the state they were originally inflated in. If you're pressure gauging every ball, and 15 minutes seems to be the magic number, it doesn't really seem to be too unlikely that in the time they spent bringing the balls in, unpacking them, and testing the Patriots balls that the PSI would re-normalize. Also, we don't know that they didn't drop, just that they were still legal.
Those still giving a shit about what Gregg Doyel has to say deserve the muck they're wallowing in.
Meanwhile
Doug Kyed @DougKyedNESNhttps://twitter.com/DougKyedNESN · 2h
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Pete Carroll says he's thrilled to have a matchup with a "high-class" team like the Patriots.
Meanwhile
Doug Kyed @DougKyedNESNhttps://twitter.com/DougKyedNESN · 2h
2 hours agohttps://twitter.com/DougKyedNESN/status/561186246156775426
Pete Carroll says he's thrilled to have a matchup with a "high-class" team like the Patriots.
The question about the Colts' balls is a bad joke at this point, like why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box?
Someone tweet back to Doyel that the Colts tampered with their own balls. It will blow his mind.
I expect wide-eyed, doofus looking face, lots of water drinking, deflection, avoidance, blame the media (which would actually be good this time), etc. I only hope Howard Stern's idiot shows up again but is more clearly heard this time.
Over/under on number of times he's asked if he should resign - 3
Over/under on number of times he's asked if he should resign - 3
Gregg Doyel
Harry Hooper said:
When this whole thing went down last week my 7 year old was adamant that "the Colts coach sabotaged us". I am praying to every possible deity that he turns out to be correct.
Not sure why a game thread is needed for this. One of the most powerful shitbags in the United States isn't going to say anything incriminating because a few pesky media members ask him a few tough questions. He'll look like a fool, no doubt, but the owners have already made up their mind about this tool.
PseuFighter said:
Announces that he's opting out of his contract, and that he envisions himself as a centaur.
I hope every parent whose kid was lectured by an insane, overzealous teacher has taken whatever steps are necessary to punch that teacher in the face.
Fuck Simmons for saying the Pats will cut Brady over this defaltegate BS then appear in this otherwise funny video for a few frames...ifmanis5 said:
BrazilianSoxFan said:
The Patriots' footballs were measured (still no confirmation of whether it was by an actual gauge or simply by feel) before the game. Then at halftime. Then after the game.
The Colts' footballs were measured before the game and after the game. We have no knowledge that they were measured at halftime, which is when the drop in psi would have registered. And all we know is that the Colts' footballs were within regulation every time they were inspected.
So……. I'm pretty sure that whatever psi the Colts' footballs were at when they were first inspected by Walt Anderson and his crew, it had dropped by halftime, and then perhaps raised again in the warmth of the building after the game was over.
It's possible that if they *were* inspected at halftime, they still would have been within regulations. Perhaps starting at 13.5, then deflating to 12.5. All within regs.
Long story short: people keep repeating that the Colts' footballs didn't deflate. And that is simply erroneous. We do not know that AT ALL.
Devizier said:
So what you're saying is if this scandal is any indication, we're actually getting dumber.
8slim said:
I'd rather this be the game thread. I'm at work and the weird malware glitches when I click on a forum index make me nervous. It's been the gamethread for everything else already.
I think Blandino already laid the groundwork for this thing to fizzle out. I wouldn't be surprised to have him take that a step further and hints toward an eventual finding of no wrongdoing. But he won't give anything concrete.
findguapo said:
Nevermind, I found it:
http://nflnonline.nfl.com/?icampaign=homepage_NFLNOW_nflno&module=HP11_more_now&module=HP11_more_now
Heard from a reliable source that he's going to be wearing a Beast Mode hat and only plans to say that, "I'm only here because to fulfil my obligation to the league, but I'm tellin' y'all that I got nothin' to say to all y'all."
By insisting the refs stand out in a blizzard before the game to test 48 balls, you're still making a big deal out of something thsr has never been a big deal before. Outdoor, especially cold weather teams have a disadvantage on offensive numbers? No kidding. Of course they do, and it has very little to do with the pressure of the football. As long as their opponent each Sunday is subjected to the same game time conditions, who cares???simplyeric said:
Edit: Just make the testing conditions room temp X minutes before game and be done with it. Everything else is just noise.
