2014 Official NFL Thread

[Joe.t]

Actually I wonder if the NFL didn't fail to get this evidence on purpose because the Patriots after everything are the 2nd most profitable team in the league. Good old Goodell...THE BUCK STOPS...IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT.

Cheers,

Merlot

Geez Merlot, you don't sound too confident, sounds like you are afraid of the results from the NFL investigation.

I'd love to lay money against this[/B]. The NFL has a lot of guess work and a guy taking a pee in a bathroom stall. Last time they had evidence and an admission. This time...SQUAT!!! We also now know the referees responsible for approving the footballs for play on the field never did much more than say...yeah, this one's okay. There's no empirical record of what the pressure was and that shows a huge fault in the system for which the NFL office is the one responsible.

I would recommend that you don't do this because you would lose and YOU would have to pay someone.

You should see the shine on Joe's bookie's new Lexus.

Welcome back, Joe, from both me and your bookie. You've been missed.

Thanks rumples, I will continue to do my best and try not to post too many "FACTS", I might let the odd one slip out but I will try my best to refrain from it because I don't want you to take your ball and go home.

 

[Joe.t]

Joe.t, I can't believe your back!....Where have you been?....Paying for all those bad sports bets!!!!!...Eh!

Go PATRIOTS Go!:nod:

Wager?, drink at 7th heaven?.:nod:

 

[hungry101]

Guys, I was so sick and tired after "deflate gate" that I have to root for the Patriots tomorrow. If they are intentionally deflating the footballs after they are approved by the umpire this is unsportsmanlike and in the worst case the Pats could have started the 2nd half of that game with a 15 yard penalty. But they inflated the Pat's balls back to the to the proper weight and they went on a 35-0 run? What a petty, non-issue this was. Come on! If the ball is easier to grip in cold weather at whatever weight than change the rule to broaden the range of proper inflation pressures or have the league supply the balls for both teams like baseball, soccer, basketball, tennis and essentially every sport but golf. I was just glad that this didn't result in another penalty for the Detroit Lions. We get the short end of every stick.

Besides, Assistant Equipment Co-Manager Dougie Spoons did it and we all know it. Go to 3:34 of the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGRyTGUbv4

 

[Merlot]

BOYZZZ!

Geez Merlot, you don't sound too confident, sounds like you are afraid of the results from the NFL investigation.

Was there evidence or not? If there was how could they have failed to record it? Was the alleged deflation something the NFL considered important at all or did they go through the motions only because of the magnitude of monumental whining by insecure haters who need any thread to cling to that their teams don't just SUCK! As an Oakland Raider fan :lol: YOU come from the original batch of fan childishly bitter over the Tuck Rule which the NFLl ater looked at and reaffirmed was perfectly valid despite all the crybabies for the Raiders...who BTW got ingloriously MURDERED the next year in the Super Bowl and with absolutely NO Tuck Rule excuses to fall back on. Now this year all you have in the face of an awful team is the thread of WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA the ball doesn't have enough air inside. :lol: :lol: :lol: PATHETIC!!!

It's really a shame that you're all so obsessed with hating the Patriots when the NFL has been so bad handling it's integrity on the whole. What will you have for excuses when the Patriots aren't around. See Super Bowl XXXVII Tampa Bay 48 Oakland 21.

...you would lose and YOU would have to pay someone.

I'm CLEAN. YOU, :noidea:

What my previous post was about is that what you whiners and haters should be investigating is not the Patriots but the NFL and how they have fumbled so much this year in handling just about every situation. But people like you Joe care a lot more about light footballs than...steroids, Bounty Gate, stomping after the play, insanely bad calls and non-calls, or the beatings of children and women..or...rape swept under the rug with Roethlisberger. Where's your "honesty, decency, respect, integrity"...where's your honor? anon?

BTW - I saw something about the Raiders being interested in SUH. Ummmmm, I smell a salary cap hit that will stifle Oakland for years. :thumb:

Cheers,

Merlot

 

[Joe.t]

Future hall of famer Kurt Warner now wonders if Patriots cheated in Super Bowl XXXVI-

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...nders-if-patriots-cheated-in-super-bowl-xxxvi

Legendary Hall of fame coach Don Shula calls Bill Belichick “Beli-cheat”.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/patriots-cheating/

Mens Journal has the Patriots ranked 7th on the all time cheating list for sports, sad.

http://www.mensjournal.com/expert-a...ll-belicheat-great-moments-in-sports-cheating

Huffington Post on Patriots cheating.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/patriots-cheating/

Guys, I was so sick and tired after "deflate gate" that I have to root for the Patriots tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGRyTGUbv4

You do realise that you are rooting for a corrupt organization which is a proven "FACT"(sorry rumples).

 

[Merlot]

BOYZZZ!

If the ball is easier to grip in cold weather at whatever weight than change the rule to broaden the range of proper inflation pressures...

Hungry, as we all have seen ESPN has been fiercely against the Patriots on this issue. Yet in their own investigation, in their own video which I posted recently, proved there is a minimal DISADVANTAGE. Now many of the talking heads of sports are going on and on about the idea of cheating, lying, lost alleged evidence...but few have been able to say if any of this changed the outcome and nearly everyone has indicated the deflation changed NOTHING. Many Patriots haters laugh that this is an issue at all...except for original Patriots hates like our buddy Tuck Rule Joe.t.

Future hall of famer Kurt Warner now wonders if Patriots cheated in Super Bowl XXXVI-

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...nders-if-patriots-cheated-in-super-bowl-xxxvi

Pffffffssssssst :lol: He's been whining for years.

Green Bay Packers Rumors: Team Cheating By Over-inflating Footballs For Aaron Rodgers?

http://www.sportsworldnews.com/arti...flating-footballs-for-aaron-rodgers-video.htm

Lost in the midst of all of this is the fact that New England is not the only prominent franchise that engages in such "shenanigans." According to Sports Grid, none other than Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers also likes to mess with the football's air pressure.

DeMarco Murray Engaged After Cheating Scandal

It has been noted on the air during Packers games that Rodgers actually likes to overinflate the footballs that he uses during games. As Phil Simms noted during one broadcast, Rodgers even likes to "push the limit of how much air [the Packers] can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the refs take air out of it."

OMG!!! That paragon of of virtue who said " honesty, decency, respect, integrity go a long way with me" (Joe.t) is going to FLIP OUT when he reads this. I pray he doesn't have a over-inflate his own pressure when he reads this because of course Cheating of any kind is intolerable for him.

Seriously, what's the difference Joe.t????? Your hatred and ENVY!

Cheers,

Merlot

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

You do realise that you are rooting for a corrupt organization which is a proven "FACT"(sorry rumples).

Don't believe that any member of the Patriots organization is a convicted felon, Joe. Does the name George Steinbrenner ring a bell?

 

[Joe.t]

Don't believe that any member of the Patriots organization is a convicted felon, Joe. Does the name George Steinbrenner ring a bell?

Does the name Aaron Hernandez ring a bell?.

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

Does the name Aaron Hernandez ring a bell?.

Don't believe Hernandez is a member of the Patriots organization. Was Steinbrenner dumped as soon as he was arrested?

 

[daydreamer41]

Don't believe Hernandez is a member of the Patriots organization. Was Steinbrenner dumped as soon as he was arrested?

Steinbrenner dumped?

Ah, rumps, George Steinbrenner was the owner of the Yankees at the time. What's he supposed to do, fire himself? Steinbrenner was suspended for 2 years from baseball by MLB. Steinbrenner's crime was illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's campaign (to a Republican OMG. If it was a Democrat and he owned the Red Sox, you wouldn't give a damn) and obstruction of Justice connected to the contributions.

Aaron Hernandez was a thug during the time he was a Patriot player. He was held without bail on multiple murder charges, or I gather the Patriots (giving their integrity) would have kept him on the roster until he was put on trial.

Those are the facts, rumps.

Amazing how anyone can compare George Steinbrenner with Aaron Hernandez.

 

[lgna69xxx]

Desperate times call for desperate measures.....

Go Seahawks! Please restore some dignity to the NFL!

Amazing how anyone can compare George Steinbrenner with Aaron Hernandez.

 

[Merlot]

BOYZZZ!

Was Steinbrenner dumped as soon as he was arrested?

It's so nice how Joe is so focused on "honesty, decency, respect, integrity". It's nice to learn new concepts after Pine Tar Pineda, A-Roid Rodriguez, and especially heart warming coming from a fan of the dirtiest cheating team in NFL history...the Oakland Raiders.

From Forbes Magazine:

Deflate-gate Is The Dumbest Sports Controversy Ever!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthew...best-ever-seriously-its-mindblowingly-stupid/

The Patriots should be severely punished for deflating game footballs during last Sunday’s AFC championship game, not because what they did broke the rules, but because their actions have forced sports fans to listen to this moronic story for the last week. At least within my memory there has not been a stupider story in the national sports media than deflate-gate, ball-ghazi, or whatever other idiot moniker they’ve come up with in the last 24 hours. I’m not sure what is more shocking, that anyone cares about this, that everyone cares about this, or that everyone cares about this more than the Super Bowl which, you might not have heard, will be played this coming Sunday. Who knew the NFL could have forgone all their preparations for the biggest football game of the year and captured the national attention by just deflating a few footballs?

Supposedly the Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick, quarterback Tom Brady, or possibly some great Patriot in the sky was able to alter game footballs by letting air out of them. Deflated footballs are slightly easier to grip, so by letting air out the Patriots made the ball slightly easier to throw, slightly easier to hold on to, and, presumably, slightly less likely to be fumbled. So, if they did this on purpose, this is an infraction along the lines of using too much stick ’em on your hands, or a pitcher using a bit too much pine tar on his thumb. Even a decade long, systematic ball deflation scheme by the Patriots, to take this to the worst possible level, warrants little more than the proverbial slap on the wrist, maybe a fine and the loss of a late round draft pick.

And yet, with what looks like one of the best Super Bowl match-ups in decades almost upon us, all we hear is ball pressure and cheating. This smacks of an over-reaction by the NFL, who responds to public pressure like grade school kids respond to Saturday morning television ads (“I saw it on TV and Johnny has it so I WANT IT!”), but mostly it’s an over-reaction by the media. We’ve been through a number of scandals where the media notably didn’t hit the #HotTake button until things were already going. Where was the media when Ray Rice beat his girlfriend and dragged her out of an elevator? Where was the media when Lance Armstrong was proclaiming his innocence while being the cheatiest cheater to ever cheat? Even going further back, where was the media during the entire steroid mess in baseball? They weren’t where they should have been is the answer to all those questions. So, with that malfeasance of duty as the background, the media catches a whiff of what might be cheating on a infinitesimally smaller scale than the above and they act like the world is on fire.

So the media is nuts about this because cheating AAAAHHH but at this point I have to ask, why does the NFL allow teams to posses the game balls before the game? Isn’t the NFL’s shock at this a bit like letting the banks write bank regulations and then being surprised the entire economy has been blown up? Novel thought: Maybe someone impartial should hold the balls until game time. If the NFL supplied the game balls themselves (maybe they’d like to pay the ball-boys themselves while they’re at it!) they’d ensure against tampering, but the NFL is so cheap they won’t pay referees a full time wage, so maybe that’s all just wishful thinking. Either way, it seems like a small change in the pre-game routine will prevent any further shenanigans along these lines. There doesn’t seem to be a need for the McCarthy Hearings, Part Deux, and yet here we are.

None of the above is to excuse cheating in any way, but as in all things, context is vital. We don’t execute people for jaywalking even though jaywalking and murder are both against the law. One is a far worse offense than the other. Similarly, we need to understand that, even if the Patriots did cheat, and though it seems like they did it hasn’t been proven yet, this isn’t an offense that requires a firing squad. The media’s blood-in-the-water routine would be better applied to any number of other NFL-related topics including concussions and post-career player health.

So, with that said, I’m done. The rest of the sports and (maybe not as surprisingly as I’d like to think) national media may continue to freak out about the PSI in the footballs of a 45-7 football game, but I will spend the rest of my Super Bowl week paying attention to something more important, namely: absolutely anything else.

It sure doesn't measure up to so much shit John Madden pulled. OH right....Joe.t ignores any offense not connected to the Patriots.

:thumb:

Merlot

 

[smuler]

I hope the game is great and a safe and happy time is by all who attend

Best Regards

Smuler

 

[Special K]

Don't believe Hernandez is a member of the Patriots organization. Was Steinbrenner dumped as soon as he was arrested?

Nor is Hernandez a convicted felon.

 

[daydreamer41]

Nor is Hernandez a convicted felon.

I bet you're rooting for him to beat the rap, too.

 

[lgna69xxx]

DD41,

SK's bawstin homerism is sky high but no way would he be rooting for that, this I can say in full confidence as I know SK pretty well and he loves all things boston but he also is a caring thoughtful individual with a good heart who does not let "thugs" from his sports teams like hernandez cloud his judgement. Other boston fans around here I could see what you are saying but definately not the K-man!

Hope you enjoy the game SK, at least you can drown your sorrows when the Cheatriots lose with a hot chica! Either way, you win :eyebrows:

I bet your rooting for him to beat the rap, too.

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

\when the Cheatriots lose with a hot chica!

The Patriots are going to lose with a hot chica?

I bet your...

You're...

At least you two have something else in common.

http://www.amazon.com/English-Ameri...&sr=1-1&keywords=english+as+a+second+language

And, while you're studying the language, here's a civics lesson to go with it: a person is innocent until proven guilty.

 

[lgna69xxx]

Breaking News: Katy Perry Fired as Halftime Show in favor of AC/DC!!!!

Go Seahawks!


[video=youtube;aoqg15tCyiA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqg15tCyiA[/video]

this guy does a GREAT impression of the legendary Bon Scott, WOW!

Go Seahawks!

 

[daydreamer41]

The Patriots are going to lose with a hot chica?


You're...

At least you two have something else in common.

http://www.amazon.com/English-Ameri...&sr=1-1&keywords=english+as+a+second+language

And, while you're studying the language, here's a civics lesson to go with it: a person is innocent until proven guilty.

Well rumps, you did catch my spelling mistake. It proves that you're much more alert at 7 am than I am at 1:53 am.

Thanks for the correction. We would not know how to survive without your help and condescending attitude.

Well, lggy, I don't know SK personally. His online personality matches many of his buddies who root for the same team. Since you know him and I know that you are a stand up and honest guy, I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

As for the others, well.

I know, rumps, that a person is considered innocent until proven guilty.

Hernandez's first murder trial for the murder of Odin Lloyd just started. He was indicted on another double murder and will stand trial for the murder of Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, 28. He is accused of shooting yet another person, a ex-friend of his, Alexander S. Bradley.

Although you probably are rooting for his acquittal, in 2 or 3 weeks, Hernandez will probably be a convicted murderer. I hope you don't take the verdict too bad if it doesn't go Hernandez's way. Especially, after the Seahawks beat the Cheatriots, Bill Cheartriot and Tom Shady.

If he is convicted, rumps, I hope you don't take his conviction

 

[rumpleforeskiin]

Although you probably are rooting for his acquittal...

Actually, I really couldn't care less. Let the system take it's course. The fact is, as it has been said, we root for laundry. Hell, I even rooted for a crazy wingnut named Schilling when he pitched for the Red Sox.

And, by the way, the system doesn't always work, witness OJ's acquittal in the murder of his wife. From what I'm reading, Hernandez' lawyer killed the prosecution in opening statements. At this point, guilty or not, Hernandez does have the better attorneys.