Posted on 01/23/2015 12:52:58 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
For more than a decade, Tom Brady has established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time, one of the sport’s most popular and respected players. On Wednesday, Brady may have jeopardized his credibility for good.
Like Patriots coach Bill Belichick, Brady denied having anything to do with footballs being deflated in the AFC Championship Game and denied knowing it had occurred until the next day, but to the quarterback’s former peers, the NFL’s golden boy lost some of the luster he had earned in his 15-year career.
“I did not believe what Tom had to say,” former quarterback and ESPN analyst Mark Brunell said.
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Please.
This is common practice, and is done all around the league - suddenly all the Brunnell’s, Aikman’s, and the rest of the jealous losers - suddenly become choir boys. This is pathetic.
Sheesh...
This was perfectly legal. There were no rules broken here. What’s your point?
Its does not make it right.
Its illegal.
Here’s the story
Of a man named Brady
Who was playing with some
Very squishy balls
He had three rings
Sitting on his fingers
Two more than Joe
from Beaver Falls
Here’s the story
Of a coach named Billy
Who it always seems was
Running from the law
He had some great teams
But felt like cheating
That was his one
Great fatal flaw
Then one day when the coach met Mr. Brady
And they formed a pair the other teams would hate
They slipped the ballboy fifty bucks to let some air out
That’s they way this all became a Deflategate
This Deflategate
It won’t abate
That’s the way
We all got stuck with
Deflategate
FACT: Brady cheated & should be suspended for at least 1 year.
Excerpt:
“Sean Payton did not cheat,” Aikman said of the Saints coach who was suspended an entire year. “There was nothing that Sean Payton and the Saints did that was illegal. And they did not give themselves a competitive edge.
“Now twice, under Bill Belichick and possibly a third time, they’ve cheated and given themselves an advantage. To me, the punishment for the Patriots and/or Bill Belichick has to be more severe than what the punishment was for the New Orleans Saints.”
Brady looked like a deer in the headlights.
I’d be careful bandying about the term “losers” whilst attempting to defend serial cheating.
It’s like one homeless guy telling another homeless guy “You need to get your sh*t together.”
I was referring to the snow plow picture - please look at who I was responding to. Sheesh.
You can think anything you want - but you are wrong none-the-less.
It's not a valid comparison. Try again.
I agree, I am in no way a professional athlete, but I can tell when a basketball is underinflated immediately, the idea this guy handled this stuff all game without noticing they were flat doesn’t pass the smell test. Hell the guy who caught the interception noticed it right away.
Now did he actively do something to get the balls deflated? Don’t know, but the idea that he didn’t know after handling them they weren’t is ludicrous.
Someone did the actual math (don’t have the link, sorry) and came up with a temperature-related variance of less than 0.5 PSI.
They are not my calculations, they are the laws of physics, gas expands at warmer temps and contracts at cooler temps.
Who, besides a demonRAT doesn't agree with that?
Did the refs check the Colts' balls?
The players balls were definitely deflated, I don't know about their footballs.
He and Manning are both generally credited with it.
“Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has long wanted control over the footballs he throws, to the point where he was the driving force behind a rules change that allowed visiting teams to provide their own footballs, rather than having both teams use footballs provided by the home team.”
Without this, the Colts would have been forced to use the balls his team provided. Instead, sometimes he ended up using the balls the Colts had provided.
Yes - Brunnell is a loser. He was practically crying on ESPN yesterday. His hatred of all things Patriots is nothing new. Bettis - a member of the Steroid steelers? Please.
Yes - they are losers - ‘cause they know damn well this is a big giant NOTHING - yet they sit there like choir boys with their faux outrage over the “integrity” of the game.
Bettis even admitted that this was a minor issue - yet somehow it’s still important enough to harumph and tsk-tsk. Craziness.
What has the NFL said about this?
So far - everything is rumor and innuendo.
D’qwell is saying he had nothing to do with this. Everyone is piling on - with out the facts.
Were the balls 2lbs lighter than 13.5 or 12.5? Big difference.
The intriguing part of this is - if D’qwell and Pagano had nothing to do with this - then who complained? That made this some sort of sting operation in the AFC championship? Makes no sense.
Second that.
Lower temperatures lead to lower pressure and higher temperatures to higher pressure.
Right. But to do the calculation, the temperatures must be in Kelvin, not Fahrenheit or Centigrade. My calculations (which might be wrong, as it's early for me) show that a 72 F to 49 F temp drop would result in a roughly 7% pressure drop.
If the ball was at 12.5 psi originally, this would put the ball's pressure at 11.6 psi at game time.
This calculation assumes that - untouched - the ball's volume remains roughly the same.
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