Moose let me ask you a question. Does this topic deserve more media then the players beating their family members? It is encroaching on that atm. Plus if any player/team can get an edge on another they're going to take it. You get caught you pay the price. Only thing here that is a fact is nobody has been caught and or blamed for this. They prob never will. Bringing in the past is saying that they should be punished. Who do you suspend? The ball guy? Every QB has their balls different from the next. Broken in, scuffed, softened and manipulated in some way to their liking. If I was a lineman I'd face mask, chop block, sack tag, punch, poke and ear slap to get you off your game. Hell I'd talk about your mom and sister. Unsportsmanlike conduct is a rule and I'd break it everytime.
Those scandals were handled (very poorly IMHO) and are now done. But,meven if they weren't, the fact some players best their wives and kids doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss cheaters and liars. This isn't an "either/or" type of situation. Most people can hold views on multiple topics and can choose to discuss one or another on any given day. If its a legal edge, bravo! If if done via cheating, then sorry, but no support. And no. Not every player who has a chance to cheat does. You're artificially painting all athletes with a broad dirty brush to protect Brady, and your assertion if "guilt by being an athlete" doesn't hold water. We have footage of those game balls being removed from the stadium before game time and after inspection, so you have your proof. Who ordered that??? Mmmm....... Gee..... Brady would be the one I'm looking at. You ideally suspend Brady for creating this scandal,but, since that will never ever happen, we take draft picks away from the pats, just like what happened when they cheated with spy gate. As for ball preference, that's all fine and good, so lomg as ball preference falls with In regulation standards. You'd be a dream for the other team. Players who do that are sloppy and cost games due to needless penalty calls.
Moose you have a very naive approach to what goes on in a NFL game. I'm friends with Britt Miller I've talked to him about certain things that happens when the ball is snapped. It's dirty, it's always been. Rules are set in place and should have been dealt with during the game. Not during practice for the Super Bowl. Fact is that it didn't change the outcome of the game. Brady didn't have problems after the balls were fixed. Colts didn't gain any advantage after the balls were fixed. Only thing NFL can do at this point is make a new rule and or do what MLB does. Supply the balls and have a ball official (job creation). Footage don't show who ordered the task of deflate. Just shows that they moved.
Nobody said a multi-billion dollar sports league needed morals. What can be expected from a reactive league that only does something when forced to. Btw football has always been dirty. Pete Rose never bet against the Reds but he's banned by a hypocritical league. The NFL is not an innocent entity now then or in the future.
Nah sweep it under the rug like nothin happened. Money doesn't do the time the poor do. Nobody is liable now thats justice for u
What if it was that linebacker from the Colts that ordered it? Maybe he catches interceptions better with a deflated ball....
no. just no. there are a lot of separate arrows pointing to brady and/or the patriots organization. there are none pointing to a linebacker from the colts. to even suggest that, is a sign of desperation. is the "brady did it" theory iron clad? no. if this were a criminal case; there would be no real chance of a conviction. but this isn't a criminal case; which would require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. this isn't even a civil case; which would only require a preponderance of evidence. but it COULD become a civil case, if the patriots fight the eventual decision of the NFL. this is the nfl. it has its own rules, and will deal with this accordingly. they don't need "proof", they just need to have a preponderance of evidence, to cover their asses if it comes to a lawsuit. in which case, the more believable side wins.
Wouldn't the deflated balls work for both teams though? As you can see the colts were using it too hence how they got it in their hands.
No. How it works is that each team brings their own set of 24 balls (12 to use and 12 "just in case" backups"). How the colts player got the ball in his hands was from an interception thrown by Tom Brady (although that's not how the deflated balls were discovered).