What a dick!
NFL Thread 2014-2015
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Dammit, I thought there was no eagles fans on here
Is Fitzgerald going to be in the pro bowl this season?
To be blunt, I barely think cricket qualifies as a sport. But that is a different topic.
It was at the Dolphins/Eagles Monday night game in Miami about 10 years ago. Several sets of Eagles fans at it. Two guys scrapping on the steps ended up tumbling half way down towards the tunnel that leads to the exit. It was quite amusing!Your on my ignore list for that
That's quite light-hearted and funny, compared to the usual stories you hear about Eagles fans. Tbh I've heard stuff I'd prefer to forget.
That is fair.
That's what she said
A new episode of bad NFL lip reading.
excellent!Who said that?
She did. Last night.
Bitch.
Meeeoooww!
That's what she said.
Reports now saying that the Baltimore Ravens tipped off the Colts and the league before the game and that the league already had a plan in place to check the balls at halftime. Well if they had the warning, why not check a few during the first half? Can't be difficult to do.
Not sure why if the Ravens knew this was happening they did not make it public?
Not sure why if the Ravens knew this was happening they did not make it public?
If they were tipped off ahead of time, how did they not know anything was amiss in their pre game check?
Heard in an interview on 5-live that the teams don't have any more access to the balls after the refs have had their look, which of course may be untrue.
Heard in an interview on 5-live that the teams don't have any more access to the balls after the refs have had their look, which of course may be untrue.
I think it is important to remember that if a scenario requires total incompetence on the part of the NFL, we should move it to the top of the list.
They said that 3 three teams complained about it, and like @Eboue just said i'm almost sure that it's only the league incompetence on that one. They that the balls might be underflated but still didn't do anything about it, like they did nothing about Rodgers preferences.
I genuinely think that it wasn't malicious from the Patriots like i don't think that it's malicious from Rodgers.
Well yes and no, after checking the balls are given to the ball attendants, who just happen to be hired by the teams. So there is a chance for the team to get their employee to mess with the balls.
End of the day I expect a hefty fine, loss of some draft picks, and possibly a Hoodie suspension.
Then will come some rule changes. At the very least an NFL official will take control of the balls a few hours before game time and then keep them in his possession until game time. Possibly even the NFL adding ball attendants to the officiating crews so that they are NFL employees not employees of each team.
You could see the NFL go to supplying the footballs and then inflating them to each teams legal request. But that also takes away the teams ability to do some of the other legal things they do the balls before using them in a game, but teams would get used to it.
Then will come some rule changes. At the very least an NFL official will take control of the balls a few hours before game time and then keep them in his possession until game time. Possibly even the NFL adding ball attendants to the officiating crews so that they are NFL employees not employees of each team.
You could see the NFL go to supplying the footballs and then inflating them to each teams legal request. But that also takes away the teams ability to do some of the other legal things they do the balls before using them in a game, but teams would get used to it.
Has Rodgers been playing with them beyond legal spec?
He prefers his balls to be overinflated. But I don't think there's any evidence his balls are over the legal limits.
This saga is getting boring now. NFL should hand out a punishment by the weekend so everyone can talk about the game rather than the fecking pressure in the balls.
We don't really know he likes them overinflated, apparently pretty close from the limit at best.
CNN showing the press conference live
http://time.com/3679079/patriots-under-inflated-balls-deflategate-nfl-scandal/
Reasonably good article by Chris Kluwe
Reasonably good article by Chris Kluwe
I hate that guy
Yeah all that campaigning for gay rights. What a dick
He's an obnoxious attention seeker who swears needlessly. If you have read any of my post on here you will know that I totally support gay rights, I don't have to like wankers like him just because we have similar views.
I totally agree with him.
I like him. Anybody who stands by their principles despite it potentially costing them an extremely highly paid job is worth respecting in my view.
Some good points, on the field were any number of players who were at that moment violating not just a few NFL rules, but possibly some laws as well. Very little is said. At the end of the day, nobody has been able to come out with any sort of quantification of how much of an advantage the Pats gained if any. Was a rule broken? of course. Did it affect in anyway that outcome of a game? Not that anyone seems to want to say. So are we making more out of this then should be? Possibly.
Playing the game is proven to have been responsible for many deaths, this is not mentioning those who then lived in constant pain, both physical and mental. And yet the thing that has us up in arms is at most 2 PSI in a football.
It does make you question why you watch the games and what really is damaging to the integrity of the game or at least what should be?
Does anyone think that while there does not seem to be much of an advantage on the playing field for the Pats for this, at least going by what a number of articles about this have said, that a big part of this might be the Pats playing mind games with opponents. There will probably be more than a few players showing up to play in NE next season who will have part of their mind focused on looking for ways the Pats are cheating rather then focusing on the game? Maybe some head coach or assistant will spend too much time worrying about it and less time preparing their team? Seems unlikely, but it is one more thing the Pats have just managed to put into the minds of their opponents.
@JustAFan
I think that it's just how Brady likes them, there is nothing more about it.
It's making a big story because Brady and Belichik personalities aren't appreciated by a lot of people.
I think that it's just how Brady likes them, there is nothing more about it.
It's making a big story because Brady and Belichik personalities aren't appreciated by a lot of people.
Yeah, if the result was reversed, and it was Lucks balls slightly flat, would anyone give a shit? Call for suspensions, fines, sackings or barring from the Superb Owl?
The league is populated by players doped up to the eyeballs on illegal substances, so it's a bit fuc*ing rich for fans, former players and coaches to start getting puritanical when a bunch of balls are underinflated. That said, if the Patriots are found to have tampered with them then they should be punished with a fine.
The Patriots are flounters of rules as everyone knows. They push their luck constantly. I don't mean as in Spygate or this ridiculous limp balls debacle, but unwritten sh*t too: they've claimed injured guys off the waiver wire when the unspoken rule is for those guys to be allowed to clear waivers and end up on IR with their original team- Jake Ballard for instance. Coughlin was reportedly furious when the Pats took him. There was another guy this year too whose name escapes me.
p.s. I have a feeling Belichick knew nothing and it's Brady who put the equipment manager up to it. It's bad form of course, and should result in him making Giselle get her breasts out. It's the only he'll learn.