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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jan 21, 2015 17:37:26 GMT -5
If anyone really believes that the Patriots got to the Super Bowl this year and won all those Super Bowls by cheating, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you. Wouldn't this mean that the Patriots only got there by cheating? Cause, you know, there is a bridge in Brooklyn.
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Post by suave on Jan 21, 2015 17:42:32 GMT -5
If anyone really believes that the Patriots got to the Super Bowl this year and won all those Super Bowls by cheating, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you. Wouldn't this mean that the Patriots only got there by cheating? Cause, you know, there is a bridge in Brooklyn. but he couldn't sell it to you though
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jan 21, 2015 17:46:30 GMT -5
Wouldn't this mean that the Patriots only got there by cheating? Cause, you know, there is a bridge in Brooklyn. but he couldn't sell it to you though How do you know? He might own it.
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Post by andrew8798 on Jan 21, 2015 18:08:25 GMT -5
Mike Pereira thinks the NFL is going to drop the hammer
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Post by MGH on Jan 21, 2015 18:18:48 GMT -5
According to Jay Glazer, the Colts were tipped off to look for this before the game by members of the Baltimore Ravens.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 21, 2015 18:38:22 GMT -5
So.....it's the NFL's fault that they did not take into account that the Patriots are, by default apparently, dirty cheaters that can't be trusted to not tamper with equipment? No, it's the NFL's fault that they trust ANY team not to tamper with game balls when there's such an easy way to prevent it from happening i.e. Leaving the balls in possession of an NFL official on the sideline as the game is ongoing. Even allowing teams the opportunity to tamper with game equipment is just moronic. I will not fault the NFL on this one. At some point you have to trust people to be honest and not cheat. People sometimes refer to the Commissioner as Herr Goodell, but if he truly were to take the steps to ensure that absolutely no cheating was going on, that would be the nicest nickname for him. How do you expect to prevent anyone from tampering in negotiations with impending free agents prior to the free agency period, bug everyone's phones? How do you prevent any team from violating the rules regarding practices, put live camera feeds for every stadium and practice facility in place and monitor each for 24 hours a day in New York? Besides, it is within the rules to alter the balls after the inspections by scuffing them, covering them in dirt, and press them by hand. How are teams supposed to do that if you don't let them have the balls after they are inspected? According to Jay Glazer, the Colts were tipped off to look for this before the game by members of the Baltimore Ravens. To which they said, "No! REALLY??!!"
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jan 21, 2015 18:47:07 GMT -5
but he couldn't sell it to you though How do you know? He might own it. Yeah.........I don't own it. Can't even believe I have to specify that I don't own the damn Brooklyn Bridge.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Jan 21, 2015 18:55:49 GMT -5
Mike Pereira thinks the NFL is going to drop the hammer Well, if he is as good at this as he is on Fox when it comes to the rules, I'd put money on the Pats owning the NFL tomorrow.
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Post by RI Richmark on Jan 21, 2015 18:56:09 GMT -5
Instead of the chest-puffing bravado you've all been dealing with today, allow me to get really real with you about this latest scandal. To be brutally honest, my honest initial reactions when the news broke late Tuesday night were two-fold: anger and fear. The anger stemmed from the fact that yet again, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots are giving enemies and opponents ammunition to discredit their achievements. The fact that this issue is being brought up infuriates me, because it allows people, whether they are the fringe lunatics or John Q. Public, to question everything. And that pisses me off. This team went 12-4, won the AFC East championship, battled back from 14-0 and 28-14 deficits against Baltimore, and mauled Indianapolis based on their own merits, not some underhanded chicanery, yet if you allow even a hint of impropriety to come to light, that's all it takes for people to question everything. And that sucks. The fear stemmed from the fact that I don't know what kind of punishment is going to be handed down to the Patriots. No word of a lie, I stayed up until almost 2 a.m. this morning, my mind running wild with questions. "There's no way they can vacate the AFC Championship, right?" or "They won't make them go back and replay the Indianapolis game, right?". Hell, I scoured Twitter for hours looking for one voice, one source who would basically say, "No, the NFL will not go to those extremes, calm down and go to f***ing sleep." And when I woke up, it's again all I can think about. I'm looking at the Patriots' itinerary for the next few days going into next week, thinking, "Well, if they fly to Arizona on Monday morning, that means the latest they can realistically vacate this conference championship is this weekend." In all honesty, the league will likely strip them of a draft pick and hit them with a hefty fine. But the fact that I have to spend days and hours allowing those previous thoughts to enter my mind really dampens the high spirits I had following Sunday night's victory. And then I go back to anger at the franchise for allowing this to happen, and it really sours my mood. Maybe it's the fact that as a Patriots fan, I've had to be on the defensive about the team I support for the better part of the last eight years, because the team is the target of vitriol for 31 other fanbases. So that's where a lot of the arrogance and peacock feathers from Tuesday and today come from. But in all actuality, I guess I'm just a sheep in wolf's clothing, scared because his favorite team f***ed up again and angry that he has to deal with this bulls*** again. Add disappointment, sadness, & fustration and it sums up my feelings excatly. It's going to be a hard couple of weeks. But I'm still going to be 250% percent behind my guys though.
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Post by RI Richmark on Jan 21, 2015 19:06:14 GMT -5
They made their bed let them sleep in it. This is going to be a topic of conversation for the next 2 weeks. I can't see the NFL laying a penalty down till after the super bowl. So yes...deflated ball jokes for the next 2 weeks. I think the NFL has to decide on thier penalty before the teams get to Glendale. They can't let this fester and take more focus off the game itself. I still think it'll be a hefty fine and loss of thier first round pick. Nothing would surprise me though.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jan 21, 2015 19:35:22 GMT -5
Yeah, they need to make the decision this Sunday because while it will be fine for the NFL that this is the top story this week....they don't want that next week so they are going to have to get this over with by the weekend.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jan 21, 2015 19:36:39 GMT -5
How do you know? He might own it. Yeah.........I don't own it. Can't even believe I have to specify that I don't own the damn Brooklyn Bridge. Pfft I don't know you. I don't know your life. I don't know what you own.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jan 21, 2015 19:37:34 GMT -5
Yeah.........I don't own it. Can't even believe I have to specify that I don't own the damn Brooklyn Bridge. Pfft I don't know you. I don't know your life. I don't know what you own. You think if I owned the Brooklyn Bridge, I would be doing Monster Crap?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 21, 2015 19:37:58 GMT -5
Mike Pereira thinks the NFL is going to drop the hammer Well, if he is as good at this as he is on Fox when it comes to the rules, I'd put money on the Pats owning the NFL tomorrow. Still better than the Booger Brain from CBS.
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Post by bluemeii on Jan 21, 2015 19:40:24 GMT -5
They made their bed let them sleep in it. This is going to be a topic of conversation for the next 2 weeks. I can't see the NFL laying a penalty down till after the super bowl. So yes...deflated ball jokes for the next 2 weeks. I think the NFL has to decide on thier penalty before the teams get to Glendale. They can't let this fester and take more focus off the game itself. If anything I can see a call from a New York area code going to one P. Manning's house sometime friday after Bellichek and Brady's newsconferences the next 2 days. "Hey Peyton....it's Roger Goodell, how you doing. Look we could really use your help, think it's possible you could call a press conference this weekend and announce your intentions for next year." Yeah I'm being somewhat factious with that....but I say somewhat because there is no organization better at spin control or media manipulation nowadays then the NFL.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jan 21, 2015 19:46:50 GMT -5
Pfft I don't know you. I don't know your life. I don't know what you own. You think if I owned the Brooklyn Bridge, I would be doing Monster Crap? Everybody needs a hobby.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jan 21, 2015 20:18:15 GMT -5
You think if I owned the Brooklyn Bridge, I would be doing Monster Crap? Everybody needs a hobby. Yeah....if I did, I would have sold the damn thing for a lot of money, found a house in the Florida Keys which is insured, and let's just say....I would be having lots of hobbies besides Monster Crap. Can't believe I have to mention this. Anyway, basically I am saying the Patriots didn't win those games just because they cheated.
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jan 21, 2015 20:36:11 GMT -5
Yeah....if I did, I would have sold the damn thing for a lot of money, found a house in the Florida Keys which is insured, and let's just say....I would be having lots of hobbies besides Monster Crap. Can't believe I have to mention this. Anyway, basically I am saying the Patriots didn't win those games just because they cheated. You know I'm joking right? Before I've never heard the saying like that before, usually it's ocean front property in Arizona.
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jan 21, 2015 20:39:25 GMT -5
If you want to punish The Patriots, don't take away their first round draft picks. Take away their sixth and seventh round picks and somehow prohibit them from being able to sign undrafted free agents and other teams castaways and turn them into surperstars. I don't see the AFC Championship win as tainted (or at least not totally) because I'm a Patriots fan and I need to rationalize any skepticism about the legitimacy of their victory away the balls were re-inflated to their regulation PSI during halftime. So if you were to negate the first half due to the deflated balls, you still have 28 unanswered points to the 7 points the Colts scored all game. Also, can the media stop adding the "gate" suffix to every scandal that comes up? Watergate was called Watergate because it happened at the Watergate hotel. I don't think the balls were deflated at the "deflategate" hotel. I know Patriot Place has a hotel on the premises, but I don't think it's called the Deflategate (though it wouldn't surprise me if they film couples in their rooms like in the "I'll see you in court" episode of Married with Children). You think if I owned the Brooklyn Bridge, I would be doing Monster Crap? Everybody needs a hobby. Oh to be a member of the idle rich and have all the time in the world to dedicate to your pet projects!
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Post by Pooh Carlson on Jan 21, 2015 20:45:12 GMT -5
Adam Gase is Chicago's new OC! I'm incredibly excited about next season.
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