Posted on 01/23/2015 9:26:48 PM PST by Colofornian
The NFL is upping the stakes in its probe of the New England Patriots and unleashing one of the country’s top lawyers and a high-powered investigative firm to uncover the truth behind a scandal that has cast a dark cloud over the team as they prepare for the Super Bowl.
League officials broke their silence on the Deflategate scandal yesterday, announcing that high-powered white-collar crime lawyer Ted Wells will join NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Pash on the investigation into whether the Pats knowingly used under-inflated footballs in the American Football Conference championship game.
“He is one of the premier lawyers in the United States, he has great credibility, he’s well-known in the field and his reputation is stellar,” said Larry Krantz of the New York law firm Krantz & Berman when asked about Wells. “He’s a very serious lawyer, his integrity is beyond reproach and this is certainly an indication that (the NFL) is taking the investigation very seriously.”
The high-powered investigative firm Renaissance Associates also will be reviewing “electronic and video information” that could reveal whether team personnel let the air out of the balls after they were inspected by the referees, the NFL said.
Wells, who the league tapped to lead an investigation into bullying in the Miami Dolphins locker room in 2013, was named one of “The Decade’s Most Influential Lawyers” in 2010 by the National Law Journal. He famously — and successfully — defended former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer against federal charges he hid payments to a prostitution ring.
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Talk at the health club is every team does it - As in, cheat and cheat again. But I don’t want to believe the Steelers do that.
Pv=nRT. Sigh. America has become so scientifically illiterate.
Sorry for the typo. PV=nRT.
All they got to do is use one of their Highfalutin lawyers to take Depositions from Coach, Ball Boy and Tom Brady under oath!!!
Did any one pump footballs to 12.5 lbs in 72F and then place them in 30 degrees lower for two hours?
The rule sets a minimum. They purposefully lowered it below the minimum. Quit making excuses. It was purposeful.
Lol, what excuses ? I said fine them & be done with this nonsense. Every team I mentioned has done something. It’s all over the league....address that, or not. This story is a joke.
Not true.
so are you are saying everybody does it so we should just move on? why does that sound familiar?
Why does the league not take a look at the inflation specifications? Maybe they are too stringent. Maybe a couple of pounds pressure will not hurt the game.
Give the quarterbacks more leeway to use their preferences. Too big a deal is being made about two lbs of air pressure, IMO.
Not fair to Seattle to give all the press to the Pats.
How could the ball pressure be the same for both teams 2 hours before the game, but 2 pounds diffrent at halftime?
Fill them with 120 degree air just before giving to officials for inspection.
Fine them. Take a draft pick, whatever, It’s a minor offence.
Whatever it takes to turn The Pats into The Saints in as short a time as it took to do that. Make Brady sit out a season like Adrian Peterson had to. He abused pigskins before a game...maybe even paid someone to do it. Perhaps these very pigskins were used to train pitbulls to fight or even worse, maybe the pigskins were used to train Pitbull to rap. I wonder how long before Obama will have to step in and do something?
I’m fine with the Pats doing whatever they want with their balls. I just ask they wait for the second half before they deflate Katy Perrys boobs.
Sorry, can't let this go. Two pounds PSI is not the same as two pounds.
The balls from both teams passed pre-game inspection. It was 51º at kick off time.
In the same outside environment, magically, 11 of the Patriots' balls, yet NONE of the Colts 12 balls, were found to be under inflated when they were inspected at half time.
Is your point that it doesn’t matter if you break the rules if it doesn’t appear to ultimately impact the outcome of the game?
Unfortunately, too many people have that view about elections.
(Oh...sure...and perhaps the football size is too "strigent" as well...Maybe a size smaller would not "hurt the game." Give not only the QBs more leeway, but the kickers, too...so that the Q's can add another dozen yards to their throwing prowess and the punters, too. And, hey, while we're at it...let's give Major League pitchers a lot more leeway as well. Stop tossing cut-up balls out of the game. Or, if a pitcher wants to use his son's T-ball rubber ball. Hey, why not? Just let them use their "preferences." "Too big a deal is being made" about a few inches of circumference or even the nature of the very skin of the ball).
There. That'll "fix it" for professional sports! Good recommends!
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