Same here. Brady knew and Belichick certainly knew. If it's confirmed, it'll only cost them draft picks, and they would have beat Indy like a drum with legit balls anyway.
As a longtime Patriots fan, this DeflateGate is taking some of the enjoyment out of the fact that the Pats are going to be in the Super Bowl. I want the Patriots to win and to be the best team in the league because they're better than all of the other teams, not because they cheat.
A video has surfaced of the ball boy taking the balls into a bathroom or some back room before taking the balls out on the field. There was no reason to do so. The plot thickens.
This is also disgusting but not a big surprise except that it was made so public: Patriots' Browner urges teammates to break Sherman's arm
It frustrates me that people believe the Patriots cheated their way into the Super Bowl. I personally don't believe they would steep that low, but now of course we're getting all of this evidence supporting the theory the Patriots did cheat. You know what's going to happen though is all of this negativity towards the Patriots is just going to ruin the Super Bowl for everyone, because who wants to go to a game that has a cheating team playing off in it. I remember seeing this story weeks ago when it first started up as nothing more, but a white lie. The blogger who posted the story had barely any evidence to support the theory yet here we are screaming at each other to no avail. GAH! *Mumbles furiously with arms folded sitting on the ground facing a corned*
I don't think I've heard anyone say they cheated their way into the Superbowl. Most people are quick to add the caveat, it didn't affect the outcome of this game, also noting Brady threw more completions with the properly inflated balls after halftime when inflationgate was discovered. Poor sportsmanship and lying when they got caught are the issues. Oh, and I can guarantee you this won't lead to empty stands at the game.
As for the evidence, it's not like there isn't any. Two weeks ago a blogger could have known 11 of 12 balls is an unlikely coincidence and what the science said: with normal room air and and given the temperature changes that would have occurred it wasn't the temperature change. Now we have this official statement from the NFL: NFL investigation of balls in AFC title game led by Pash, Wells It's a pretty specific leak saying that video was a ball guy taking the balls into the bathroom for 90 seconds before the game.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=ImnIVP-DLpfasASz5oHYDQ&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVfy08ushZpM&ved=0CCwQtwIwAjgK&usg=AFQjCNGDzq-Ub_zFt1tCM0MSU0sLTQCxwQ&sig2=cXrJ8OQSttnufLJPxu91Hw
Lived in the USA for 14 years and gridiron was one game that always struck me as a cure for insomnia. Tried watching the Superbowl once and it worked, I fell asleep after 15 minutes. Even now I have no idea how many points a touchdown is worth. Just what is interesting about the sport?
Like most other sports, I imagine. Many Americans feel the same way about football/soccer. I find baseball to be dull, personally, but I like soccer, ice hockey, and American football. You can boil them all down to uninteresting aspects on the surface, but once you understand the game a bit more it becomes interesting.
The one thing I could never get over is that a 60 minute game takes 4 hours to play. That means they are doing nothing for 3 hours.
They are running longer. Not four hours. They're running right around three hours (just under or over) on average. Of course, some of that is commercial time. The NFL uses a specified number of TV timeouts during a televised game, during which play is stopped. Apart from those, I don't have a problem with the timing of the games. The rest of the stops come from in-game aspects - incomplete passes, officials moving the chains, time-outs, and so on, and how that all impacts the clock becomes important to the strategy of the games.
Specified number of tv timeouts! So they stop the game for a word from their sponsor, give the quarterbacka microphone and he does a head and shoulders commercial in the middle of the field.
If you consider actual playing time, it's more like 12 minutes. That's so sad when you think about it.
Oh boy, the conspiracy theory is starting to grow. Why did the Seahawks coach make the last call that didn't get the ball to Marshawn Lynch? http://nypost.com/2015/02/02/marshawn-lynch-gives-a-real-answer-and-takes-the-high-road/ What is the big rumor? They didn't want Marshawn to be the hero. Skip ahead to minute 4.5 (the transcript isn't up yet).
If the Patriots had won one or more Super Bowls in the last several seasons, than this Pats Super Bowl win wouldn't feel so exciting for me. However, the Patriots haven't won a Super Bowl in ten years up until this past Sunday. Therefore, this Super Bowl win, to me, is just as exciting as it was the first time they won the Super Bowl back in 2002.
