American Football - What should be the penalty for the Patriots underinflated balls vs the Colts?

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VGPolyglot said:

mornelithe said:

JayWood2010 said:

I really believe this is the biggest non story ive heard in the NFL.  I just hope they can get back to football and everybody can calm down about this.

Oh it's absolutely a non-story until the NFL provides...ANYTHING for evidence (And even then, as far as potential league infractions this year, this ranks down near the bottom, easily).  It's disgraceful what they've done at this point.  They took days to speak w/ Brady, interviewed 40 people, hired an outside investigator, forensics experts/video experts etc... dafuq?  And in that time, Bellicheck and Patricia ran repeatable scientific observations regarding air pressure, temperature and weather, and already came up with a reasonable doubt scenario.  Is anyone actually running the NFL?  lol.  After all the botched investigations this year, and last...why is no one questioning the NFL's integrity here?  They literally had a sting setup, that they've thus far, spectacularly failed.

The New England Patriots have been caught cheating before under the same coach and quarterback (spygate), so why should they get the benefit of the doubt?

Rofl, explain to me, exactly how they've gotten the benefit of the doubt?  What they have done is presented plausible deniability, while preparing for the SB, while the almighty NFL itself, hasn't said jack shit about it yet.  And let's be brutally honest here, who's had more integrity issues since spygate?  The NFL?  The Patriots?  The Refs?  Sorry son, if all you've got is spygate, while ignoring the horrific shitjob the NFL (and the refs), have been doing, your argument was bankrupt before you even uttered it.

The facts are, science actually explains the drop in pressure.  What's _really_ weird, is the issue's never come up before.  Any cold weather team who preferred softer balls, would literally always be under the league mandated pressure.  Always. And even at 13.5 psi, a ~2lbs/psi drop still takes it below the league standard.  You can't tell me they don't have intelligent individuals on staff, who should've pointed this shit out beforehand.  So, depending on pre-game conditioning of the balls, you could say any cold weather team in the league, has been using underinflated balls at some point during a game, possibly for an extended period.   So, expect an update to the leagues rules about footballs, because they've been dropping the ball on it for ages.