Are you "outraged" about deflate-gate?
I just watched a report on the Today Show where 81% of viewers in a snap twitter poll said yes to the question "if guilty should the Patriots be banned from the Super Bowl?" Leaving aside the silliness of the question, which isn't on the table as a possibility, the rest of the discussion was about how there is "growing outrage" over this. Is there? I'm probably in the minority, but this is nothing but a yawner to me as a scandal. I'm shocked, shocked, that there is gambling in this establishment. Scuffing balls happens in baseball, as does stealing signs, as does trying to get any edge possible. You catch a guy or a team, you punish them under the rules, you move on.
But I could be wrong, what do you think?
January 22nd, 2015 at 11:44 AM ^
I don't care. As many have already noted, if the game was a FG or TD difference then I might say that the deflated ball could've impacted the outcome. But at 45-7 there is no doubt. A deflated ball will not cause the Colts to have a poor game plan and play crappy defense against the Pats.
January 22nd, 2015 at 12:17 PM ^
If this story broke in week 2 of the season probably wouldn't hear much about it.
January 22nd, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
Unfortunately due to the 2 week lag between the conference championship game and the Superbowl and most of the football news will be in the second week, we're stuck with this.
Note that so far we haven't heard any official news just leaks and as it noted elsewhere the leak sources have been far from accurate.
The NFL has really bungled or at least come across as something less than professional in their handling of a lot of things one would think should be routine things at this point: referring crews, instant replay/review, how to handle player/staff misconduct, and this whole ball prep issue.
Let's see the whole official report and the whole testing methodology.
January 22nd, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
and even less so after I found out they did better in the second half with properly flated balls.
January 22nd, 2015 at 2:55 PM ^
outrage me
January 22nd, 2015 at 4:09 PM ^
Muchado about nothing...media requires daily fix of drama,tho.
January 22nd, 2015 at 4:39 PM ^
"Outraged"? No, I reserve my outrage for things that are not of relative unimportance.
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