Report: NFL covered up key Deflategate evidence that favored Patriots

[LeviF]

2 minutes ago, JohnNord said:

Bill Belichick is the Richard Nixon of the NFL.  Didn’t need to cheat but did anyway

 

"Errrm, uhhh, gonna (inaudible) the tape, but, uhhh, errrm, uhh, not a crook."

 

-Bill Belichick, probably.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

2 hours ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

Not that this is something new. 
 

Florio shared two notable pieces of reporting from the Deflategate saga that began after the 2014 AFC Championship Game, when ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported that 11 of the Patriots' 12 game footballs were underinflated by at least two pounds each.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-nfl-covered-key-deflategate-150631069.html

 

Of Course They Did, because the NFL also covered up and destroyed evidence that incriminated the Patriots during Spygate

Deflategate was Payback All the Way

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

43 minutes ago, JohnNord said:

Are we really going to revisit Deflategate?  Who cares? 

who cares?

 

seems there are plenty of comments so far. 
 

so someone must 

 

 

[MJS]

Reading that was a waste of time. It's just a bunch of "rumors" based on no evidence at all.

[Rocky Landing]

When it comes to the Patriots*, Mike Florio can be trusted about as much as the Patriots*.

[Steve O]

2 hours ago, prissythecat said:

If story is true, Pats have a good reason to get those picks that they  lost back.

Yes, but we're not going to get Will Wolford back and the Pats aren't going to get those picks back.

[Albany,n.y.]

3 hours ago, stuvian said:

this league has become a corrupt third world dictatorship. I hope the USFL cleans their clock

Yeah, that's really going to happen with a minor league that isn't even playing in the cities that the team names say they are from.  

[Royale with Cheese]

I don't understand how people can feel good winning at something if they cheated.  

[Jerry Jabber]

Never mind the text messages between Brady and the equipment manager which showed evidence that the equipment manager was the one who stole the footballs and deflated them before the games, then quickly but them back before anyone saw a thing.

Edited February 9, 2022 by Jerry Jabber

[Warcodered]

eh at a certain point it became less about deflated footballs and more about a lack of cooperation with the investigation.

[BornAgainBillsFan]

30 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

I don't understand how people can feel good winning at something if they cheated.  

 

When you saw the Patriots celebrate after winning any of the Super Bowls, they weren't celebrating the championships. They were just happy that they didn't get caught this time.

[TheFunPolice]

Oh well, just give it to them. 

 

 

 

 

[Don Otreply]

The NFL (which is the owners group) IS A COMPLETE JOKE. The Game is fun to watch but the organization that is the “ owners/league” are a bunch of money grubbing/worshiping walking character flaws, it’s the dumb & dumber gang,  “Ready, Fire, Aim,” that should be their motto.

[BuffaloFan68]

Bills and Jets complained about NE deflating footballs for 4 years before they were officially "caught".  NFL is a joke and needs a total clean-up to get rid of the corruption. 

[TheFunPolice]

As much as I hated New England at the time, it just seemed like a silly thing to freak out over.

 

So the balls are a little deflated... Just seemed weak, although I did enjoy their misery. Of course, like always, Brady and Co. got over on everyone by beating Seattle in the Super Bowl that year so there is that. 

[NewEra]

4 minutes ago, BuffaloFan68 said:

Bills and Jets complained about NE deflating footballs for 4 years before they were officially "caught".  NFL is a joke and needs a total clean-up to get rid of the corruption. 

There’s no corruption in the NFL  Humans are innately good.  Didn’t you know that?  They don’t ever cheat or bend the rules. Stop being so dramatic. 

[blitzboy54]

Deflate Gate was a makeup call for Spygate and all the other nonsense they had gotten away with over the years. Remember how everyone's headset stopped working at key moments in the playoffs? I'm guessing a lot of that was the inmates running the asylum but there was a reason the majority of the owners wanted action from the league after they found out about the football pressure. 

 

The Pats earned all of it. 

[TheFunPolice]

The Patriots created a mystique, a sort of psychological warfare that had teams and players looking over their shoulders expecting the boogeyman at every turn. Walking into Gillette in a playoff game was like being left alone in a haunted asylum. Your mind plays tricks on you, and you build them up into something much more than they are. 

 

That was their greatest edge. You just KNEW something was up, even if you couldn't put your finger on it. 

 

They found a way to pressure teams psychologically and in a game of inches that little edge can be huge.

 

When you're expecting disaster to strike it has a  way of happening for you. 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

4 hours ago, stuvian said:

this league has become a corrupt third world dictatorship. I hope the USFL cleans their clock

I see Russian troops massing at Ukrane's border...

1 hour ago, Rocky Landing said:

When it comes to the Patriots*, Mike Florio can be trusted about as much as the Patriots*.

Florio's idea of obtaining intel is buying team sources and player agents drinks.

*
The Patriots idea of intel:

[May Day 10]

2 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Of Course They Did, because the NFL also covered up and destroyed evidence that incriminated the Patriots during Spygate

Deflategate was Payback All the Way

 

Was going to post this.  Im sure the NFL owners agreed to make Spygate go away to benefit the league as a whole and the Patriots agreed that the nonsense was over.  This football thing happened and behind closed doors the other owners were irate.  Deflategate was in some ways a correction on spygate leniency.