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HuskyHawk said:
I grew up in Manchester CT in the 70's. People rooted for the Pats (mostly) or Steelers or Cowboys. I never met a Giants fan until I got to UConn in 1984. East of the river was pretty strong Patriots territory. And anybody who thinks they sucked then doesn't remember history correctly. Some very good, entertaining teams with Steve Grogan, Stanley Morgan, Russ Francis, John Hannah and many others.
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A couple of my best childhood friends are longtime Giant fans so that my sway my perception. I agree that east of the river was definitely patriots territory. Traditionally people north and east of Hartford identify themselves much more as New Englanders than people in southern and western portions of Connecticut
 
uconngb said:
You are so off your rocker on this one, you're embarrassing yourself. The Patriots this year played every team that won their division in the AFC, four teams that finished above .500 and the NFC North, that put 2 teams in the playoff. By winning 12 of those games, they got home field in the playoffs. They were not GIFTED home field as you certainly imply. and just so you have your facts straight, do you know the first team in history to ever win 3 games on the road to make it to the
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Again, you're pointing to this year. I clearly stated (and you need to pay closer attention) that this has given them an advantage over the Brady era.
 
Why are Pats fans so ticked off at the deflated ball allegations?

Listen. When a husband gets caught sleeping with his secretary, the next time he unexpectedly comes home late from work, the Mrs has a right to ask questions. The Pats were caught cheating before. It makes perfect sense to question them and get to the bottom of the inquiry.
 
Deepster said:
Why are Pats fans so ticked off at the deflated ball allegations? Listen. When a husband gets caught sleeping with his secretary, the next time he unexpectedly comes home late from work, the Mrs has a right to ask questions. The Pats were caught cheating before. It makes perfect sense to question them and get to the bottom of the inquiry.
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Who's so ticked off? I'm on to Seattle. I love the handwringing and complaining by fans of sh__ty teams with incompetent owners.

Speaking of the Jets, "spy gate" is nothing more than a device fans of teams like the Jets use to tell themselves that if their team cheated like the Pats did they'd be successful too but they do things the "right way." Putting to the side the fact that the Jets were kicked off the roof of Gillette for illegally taping in 2006. The reason that hasn't become a meme is (a) the patriots understood that literally everyone was doing it and (b) who would care about rule breaking by a team that never wins?

This is all just noise.
 
Deepster said:
Why are Pats fans so ticked off at the deflated ball allegations?

Listen. When a husband gets caught sleeping with his secretary, the next time he unexpectedly comes home late from work, the Mrs has a right to ask questions. The Pats were caught cheating before. It makes perfect sense to question them and get to the bottom of the inquiry.
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I don't see many ticked off. All my friends are laughing at you guys.

By the way, your team got caught filming signals months before the Patriots did.
 
upstater said:
The interesting thing for me is that the refs handled the same ball after each play.

Whereas Dqwell Jackson noticed something different immediately after his interception.

How could the refs not notice it and yet Dqwell did?

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I think it's obvious what happened. The Colts managed only one good play all game...the one where Brady evidently threw an under-inflated ball for an interception. Clearly the Colts were trying to deflate the balls the Patriots used, and it worked, but they never told Jackson their nefarious plans.
 
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Deepster said:
Why are Pats fans so ticked off at the deflated ball allegations?

Listen. When a husband gets caught sleeping with his secretary, the next time he unexpectedly comes home late from work, the Mrs has a right to ask questions. The Pats were caught cheating before. It makes perfect sense to question them and get to the bottom of the inquiry.
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Exactly, my 8 years old son is a Pats (and Boston) fan. he's upset that the news is already calling The Pats 'cheaters.' So, I have him read about SpyGate from a few years ago and I point out that if one is caught cheating once, it's a very hard reputation to shake in the future even if one has not cheated again. Hoping it is a lesson learned.
 
I hate the Pats with a passion mostly due to some of their fans, I think this deflating football story is stupid and something to eat up filter time for ESPIN to cover.
 
If someone asked me without knowing before the seasonwhich team do you think is think was accused of deflating balls to get an upper hand. Iwould say the Pats not even shocked by this in the slightest
 
BleedHuskyBlu said:
If someone asked me without knowing before the seasonwhich team do you think is think was accused of deflating balls to get an upper hand. Iwould say the Pats not even shocked by this in the slightest
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Its something for the media to pick apart if the Seahawks were playing lets say Indy there would probably be a story out about the Seahawks stealing signs, or whatever.
 
BleedHuskyBlu said:
If someone asked me without knowing before the seasonwhich team do you think is think was accused of deflating balls to get an upper hand. Iwould say the Pats not even shocked by this in the slightest
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And yet there are dozens of links out there showing that multiple teams did stuff to the balls during the season, including the Packers and Vikings.
 
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BleedHuskyBlu said:
If someone asked me without knowing before the seasonwhich team do you think is think was accused of deflating balls to get an upper hand. Iwould say the Pats not even shocked by this in the slightest
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That just means that you're a .
 
upstater said:
And yet there are dozens of links out there showing that multiple teams did stuff to the balls during the season, including the Packers and Vikings.
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I certainly did stuff to my balls during the season. No denying that.
 
upstater said:
I was a huge long suffering Patriots fan from the 1970s. I have 10 years on you. I could hardly watch (and couldn't and didn't) but the Patriots had Dick McPherson and Rod Rust as coaches. They had Hugh Millen and Tommy Hodson as QBs. I can't even begin to describe to you the absolute level of total suckitude of that period. I'm not sure that any team was ever that bad with the exception of the 78 Buccaneers. The Patriots were horrible, not on TV, the owners (Kiam and Orthwein) were absolute disasters, the GM was U Miami's old AD and he was clearly out of his element. So yeah, it was perfectly understandable why you would be unaware of Patriots fans from 1988-1993.

When the Patriots were bad under Ron Erhardt (2-14 in 1982), they still maintained the average fan's interest. Because the team was ultra-talented with all-pros at many positions Julius Adams, Joh Hannah, Ray Clayborn, Stanley Morgan, Sam Cunningham, etc.) But the 1988-1993 crew was horrendously bad.
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Right on brother. When the Pats battled the Seahawks in 1992 it was a battle for #1 as well. The Hawks won that day so they ended up with Rick Mirer. Man have these franchises changed. I could give two craps when I hear somebody say there were no Patriot fans before Brady. I froze my off watching bad football for 2 decades, with one friggin miracle season that ended in a SB disgrace. I won't apologize to any hater, f'em all.
 
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Hey they would have won anyway but Billy B always trying to get the upper hand even if it's illegal, or actually just cheating. Go figure.:rolleyes:
 
Cheeky said:
It was going to hurt Patriot haters enough already if the beat the Seahawks.
Now, it's just going to burn like hell.
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Being a UConn fan taught me to endure the hate.

Being a Pats fan has taught me to embrace it.
 
While not a Pats fan, I, too, thought this entire story was overblown by the media. Then, it comes out this morning that 11 of the 12 balls that the Pats had were under-inflated. That can't be just an accident or game/environmental impact. WTF? Is Coach Belichick's ego so big and so maniacal that he only beating the Colts by 21 is not enough for him, so he orders his staff to pull this stunt to win by 38 instead?

If this is true, the NFL is going to be livid. I expect that the NFL will significantly fine the Patriots and pull draft picks. But, that was done before with SpyGate and it clearly had no impact on the hooded one. Plus, as the local ABC NYC Sporst caster said, what team owner and coach would not give up $500K and a couple of draft picks to play in the Super Bowl? The only thing that Coach Belichick seems to care about is winning. Thus, to drive the message home, I would expect that suspending him from the Super Bowl is on the table.
 
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Let him coach the Super Bowl, just not next year at all for thinking he can pull yet another one over on the NFL folks!
 
Cheeky said:
He did, in fact, pull one over. He beat the Colts and is in the SB.
Feel the burn!
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No burn here could care less other than listening to the idiots crawl out of the woodwork again of this years SB, many of whom can only name Tom Brady. By the way Cheekster, he didn't pull one over read the papers. Yeah he's a cheater**, your HOF coach, spygate. You must be proud!:rolleyes:
 
mauconnfan said:
By the way Cheekster, he didn't pull one over . . .
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Won and in the SB.
BURN!
ahahahaha.
(Don't care, by the way. Not a huge football fan. More interested in watching the whining and wailing than anything.)
 
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