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mornelithe on 21 January 2015
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FatedReality said:

It's confirmed Patriots used deflated footballs during the AFC Championship game against the Colts...

"The New England Patriots had 11 of their 12 allotted game footballs under-inflated by 2 pounds of air (PSI) as required by NFL regulations, according to league sources either involved or familiar with the investigation of Sunday's AFC championship game when the Patriots beat the Colts 45-7 to advance to their sixth Super Bowl."

Source: http://espn.go.com/boston/story/_/id/12202450/nfl-says-new-england-patriots-had-inflated-footballs-afc-championship-game

This is the exact reason why I can't stand the Patriots. They are always using some backhanded way or blatant cheating to win a game. Absolutely ridiculous that they keep getting away with things like this if you ask me... IMO some major action should be taken against them by the NFL.

1) Nothing actually linking the Patriots to it yet, so we'll have to wait and hear from the League investigation.  11 being underinflated is odd, for one, why 11?  There's 12 extras that they have for the game (total of 24 if I understand correctly), what're those measured at?  It all just seems weird.  I'll tell you this though, before Rodgers spoke about purposefully overinflating, I had cast this aside as just silliness.  Now, who knows, maybe league-wide it's an issue.  Still, the 2nd point is concerning also.

2) And almost as important as finding out how it happened.  How did the refs, who have these things under lock and key up until 2 hrs from kickoff, and then examine them 15 minutes from kickoff, and then had both Patriot and Colts scrimmage balls in their hands w/in the first what, 5 minutes of the game (since both teams went 3 and out on their opening drive) miss the difference?  It was in the low 40's, so the ball would've have been the rock hard you'd get in your typicaly NE game.  So, how is it possible they missed that?

And the only action that can be taken is $25K fine to the personel responsible.