Another Patriot Scandal??

[pbmax]

The NFL gets more and more like NASCAR every year.

[hoosier]

What is an appropriate penalty for deflating balls in the championship game? Fine? Draft picks?

The only possible punishment for this is castration.

[Rastak]

I missed the section in the rulebook where it says cheating is allowed as long as you win by 30+ points.

No offense but as mentioned previously Rodgers ADMITTED they over-inflate the balls......should the Packers get the same penalty as anything the Pats get?


This is really minor, the only concerning thing is these dudes seem to have a pattern of bending the rules and getting busted.

[Bretsky]

I wish we deflated the dam balls and won; this is much about nothing

Maybe if the balls were deflated Bostick would not have tried catching a ball with his helmet

I wish we had Hoody Genius the last five minutes; we'd be in the SB after he buried Seattle with some first downs...regardless of the deflation of the balls

[mraynrand]

flubber?

LOL. "Nothing to see here, folks. Just a normal game. Nothing suspicious at all. No need for any investigation of any kind" - LeRoy Butler

[Bossman641]

No offense but as mentioned previously Rodgers ADMITTED they over-inflate the balls......should the Packers get the same penalty as anything the Pats get?


This is really minor, the only concerning thing is these dudes seem to have a pattern of bending the rules and getting busted.

I believe Rodgers likes them over-inflated and then relies on the refs to check and request changes. That's a little different than having them checked and approved and then making changes after the fact.

[pbmax]

nm

[sharpe1027]

The score of the game should have no bearing on the punishment. I say force the Patriots to provide recordings of their entire practices to all 32 teams and to play with greased footballs while on offense.

[MadtownPacker]

What a bunch of pussies crying about balls not being big enough.

[woodbuck27]

They have a lot of balls pointing at balls !

[denverYooper]

The twitter tellsss me that Belichick denied knowledge of Ballghazi. Bill Simmons is collecting evidence to support his theory that this might be Brady's last year with the Pats.

Bill Simmons @BillSimmons 6m6 minutes ago
Also - the fact that Belichick did the whole "wasn't me, ask Tom" thing makes me feel even worse about Brady's iffy contract status.

[mraynrand]

Bill Simmons is collecting evidence to support his theory that this might be Brady's last year with the Pats.

Warning: 80's hair

[Guiness]

The whole thing is kind of nuts. Ball inflation pressure? It is really hard to fathom how it matters, but I guess there's a rule, and the point is, they broke it. They didn't find a way around the rule, or challenge its validity, they just flat out break them, which I do see as the bigger problem.

One question I have: is this another bounty-gate? Are many teams doing it, but the NFL is not interested in looking to see?

[Fosco33]

Makes me wonder - are over inflated balls harder to catch (and throw) as Arod points out. Wonder how much that would go into the drops we sometimes see?

As there are 'K' balls for kicking - Bostick has no more excuses.

[Guiness]

Posts over at PFT about this are pretty hilarious - a lot of mud slinging at the Colts, must be a lot of Baltimore fans over there! Among the claims:

lost games on purpose to get the #1 pick in the draft,
caught pumping fake crowd noise into the stadium,
changed rules league wide to benefit their own team, and
turned off all cold water and cranked up the heat in the visitors locker room during a playoff game knowing the opposition had many players with the flu