"ESPN report: 11 of the Patriots' game balls were not properly inflated"
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The Patriots, who beat Indianapolis 45-7 for the AFC title, said they were cooperating with the league, and a Seahawks spokesman said the team would defer to the league on the matter."
Deflating a football can change the way it's gripped by a player or the way it travels through the air. Under NFL rules, each team provides balls each game for use when its offense is on the field. The balls are inspected before the game by the officiating crew, then handled during the game by personnel provided by the home team.
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said on ESPN radio in Milwaukee that he didn't like how referees who inspected balls before games take air out of the game balls.
"I have a major problem with the way it goes down, to be honest with you," Rodgers said. "The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage."
Rodgers said referees have a set range in which they "like to set game balls," and that he always liked the higher end of the range because of his grip.
"I just have a hard time throwing a flat football," Rodgers said. He thought a slight majority of quarterbacks like footballs on the flatter side.
"My belief is that there should be a minimum air-pressure requirement but not a maximum," Rodgers said. "There's no advantage, in my opinion. We're not kicking the football. There's no advantage in having a pumped-up football."
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Repeating my comment posted elsewhere:
I now better understand why I no longer find most NCAA Div I and NFL games boring. II no more trust the NFL ‘s post facto revelations either…as someone else said, what about the 2nd half? I’ve watched a 5 year record this year, only 3 games total. Last year it was one. NBA basketball the same…too many 2 point games. It is no longer really a sport, but approaching the phenomena of pro wrestling. In short, it is an entertainment business first and foremost. Like baseball, where I devolved to watching slow pitch soft ball games at our once upon a time state fair grounds, the game spirit seems lost. All have become pure entertainment and the Hollywood type salaries should be the first clue of what matters in pro-sports…and now they want to pay NCAA Div 1 football players as well. Might as well, very few STEM graduates there. How do you still go broke now and then with that first $10 million or so?
I realize this opinion makes me a bitter cynic, but what the heck, its not the first time. The state & federal SOTS and SOTU speeches yesterday left me with the same cynical feeling….all blather, no details…just an extension of perpetual campaigning. I once competed in various sports in high school and college and loved it. We had rules and had to abide them. One of my best sports was competitive alpine ski racing, which in the Brundage days meant you had no sponsorship directly for US competitors. Howard Head would provide experimental skiis, but you could only use them for practice, not USSA races. No one off custom made skis and boots, etc., definitely no pay. I stunk at football (slower than a slug), but it was fun none the less. Today sport seem less like fun and more like a movie set. What I am really sorry about is the impact this all has on the real fans, probably the most who still “believe,” who still wish the sports were clean and about sport, not business first and foremost.
Deflated footballs, crooked refs... yeah - it is boring. I agree 100%, Ari. The game is lost to the hype and the Hollywood. Solid successful seasons give way to fired coaches. Silly.
Speaking of deflated footballs. Our Potemkin President
Deflated balls?
Sounds like Moochelle on the job.
Ari:
I stil love NFL football but not college so much anymore because college games have so many games that are like 48 to 47. Unfortunately it appears the NFL is headed in that direction too.
And I hear your complaint more and more from former avid fans.
Another point about this deflated ball scandal (if you can even call it that)...the very dimple fact that an offical, a referee or lineman handles each football as often as any players. Whot? nobody noticed this big deal issue until after the game was over..no body among them could have tossed suspicious ball(s) out of the game?
Oh, please, just please...what's next? Commercials asking for your 63 cents per day for $19 per month to support your local referees?
Yeah, I am being snarky, but I am amused by how many, likely worthwhile, and some others not so much, who use this promotional gimic...right down to the daily and monthly amounts. You MUST feel guilty! It is demanded! Never mind that your rent is overdue, or mortage payment(s), pay up you rich guys out there who may coincidently be out of work....we'll send you this nice towel or blanket made in some Mumbai Ghetto by those slightly less "rich" than you are...pay your FAIR SHARE!
I'll withhold my opinion until we hear from our resident Bostonian ball expert.
If he is unavailable then perhaps Eric, with his ever increasing knowledge of deviant sexual variations, will enlighten us with a discourse on the practice of scrotal inflation.
I recommend that the squeamish not google that last phrase.
Metaphor Alert.
What, again?
The game is overproduced to appeal to the widest audience possible and has lost its spontaneity and authenticity. It's all highly manipulated hype, kind of like the ten (!) postings on my Facebook this morning congratulating Jeezbama for remarking that he won the Presidency twice. (In your facepalm, Rethugs! #Winning.)
The deflated balls might be an intentional effort to get the Pats back to the Big Game (narrative!) or it might be the effect of too many rules and technicians and bureaucrats leaving no one actually accountable for common sense.
...or it might be the effect of too many rules and technicians and bureaucrats leaving no one actually accountable for common sense.
Are you talking football or the Obama administration? I confused!
It's all highly manipulated hype lacking authenticity. Now with with real and metaphorical deflated balls.
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My being the open-minded, adventurous sort, and wanting to be fair about the whole thing, I went to Bing image search a few minutes ago and typed in "GIF obese gay porn." Then I hit the enter key.
And then ... B L A M M O ! ! !
A 20 second skim was plenty enough, but that was all it took for me to conclude that they all have the exact same haircut, for reasons that escape me, completely.
You're gonna get some really interesting emails.
Dude leave Palladian alone!
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