palandri
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Makes it easier to hold on to. My understanding is that each team supplies the balls they use on offense.
Exactly!
Makes it easier to hold on to. My understanding is that each team supplies the balls they use on offense.
Are you trying to say Tom Brady didn't know he was using an under inflated football? Give me a break.
I now put Tom Brady in the same category as Alex Rodriguez, Rafael Palmeiro, Barry Bonds and all the other cheaters in professional sports and his records means nothing anymore.
Makes it easier to hold on to. My understanding is that each team supplies the balls they use on offense.
I thought the Home team did supply the balls at least the backup 12?That makes sense. I had heard that the home team supplied all the balls. And if they did, then it'd be a level playing field. But if each team supplies their own balls for offense, I can understand why there is some controversy over it.
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I am indeed a Pats fan, but I don't condone cheating. My reply above was solely in regard to the scandal itself. To be honest, I haven't even thought about whether Brady or anyone else were aware of the deflated state of the footballs.
What's going to come out of this is serious questions about the integrity of the game as a whole and NFL antitrust...there will be calls for more government intervention and oversight of all pro sports.
What's going to come out of this is serious questions about the integrity of the game as a whole and NFL antitrust...there will be calls for more government intervention and oversight of all pro sports.
I'm sure he did know, but I never said he didn't. At the time of my reply above, I said that I had not given it any thought. I really hadn't.How could Brady have not known?
No doubt.The man handles "official size and weight" footballs almost every day of his life.
That is not what I was saying at all. My initial reply was in regard to what I thought would be the outcome of the scandal. My second reply went on to say that the organization should be punished if there was irrefutable evidence.Are you saying that there is no way he could have known the balls he was using the the game felt different?
See the above commentAs in, easier to grab, especially in the cold, rainy weather?
I don't disagree at all. Now having said that, did you expect him to step forward and confess it or keep playing?Again, the Colts got pummeled, and I doubt that the deflated balls had any thing (or much) to do with that... but still, Brady HAD to know something wasn?t right.
Regardless of what effect any of this had on the game (I personally doubt that it did - but cheating is cheating), it?s been a pretty bad year for the NFL from an image perspective. Goodell is failing pretty hard, IMO.
Yup. It hasn't been easy to tune out the stupid drama this season and it has started to turn me off and make me less interested. I can say with certainty that I haven't enjoyed this season as much as I have past seasons simply because there has been so much drama not related to football.The NFL is getting disgustingly dramatic lately, and it's making it so uninteresting to me.
Yup. It hasn't been easy to tune out the stupid drama this season and it has started to turn me off and make me less interested. I can say with certainty that I haven't enjoyed this season as much as I have past seasons simply because there has been so much drama not related to football.
It's the TMZ generation and whenever something happens it spills into mainstream news which just tires me to no end.It's like watching an F'n soap opera...and it takes so much away from the sport to me when 1/4 of the game they're talking about whatever drama is surrounding "x" team or player that week. I simply don't care about anything but the football...but they're going after a new age audience, and that audience, in my opinion, is destroying the sport.
College is right behind it too.