OT: Pats-Colts

[FartMan69]

My favorite moments so far have been, in no particular order, (1) Sal Paolantonio's theory that Brady's press-conference was intended to prevent a decline in the sale of Uggs, (2) the "what are we going to tell the children?" question from Brady's press conference, and (3) Mark Brunell literally crying on television about this.

What a country.

I think this has gotten more coverage than Rice beating his girl to smithereens and Adrian Peterson beating his kid with a tree branch. It's a football that everyone openly admits had no effect on the game yet this it's being portrayed as being worse than Al-qaeda and AIDS combined. Give me a break

 

[Devland]

The entire world knows they're talking about air-pressure.

Except, apparently, the dullard who just posted above me.

The reason I posted this is because I have heard more than one member of the media state that the balls "weighed" or "were put on a scale".

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I noticed that ESPN resident genius Ian O'Connor removed the statement from his laughably hacky article yesterday where he said that he couldn't believe that Brady didn't notice that a ball inflated to 10.5 psi "weighed two pounds less" than a ball inflated to 12.5.

 

[CL82]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/sports/ncaabasketball/23uconn.html?_r=0

Nope, don't post a link. You tell me where you believe coach Calhoun the cheated.

 

[CL82]

And what advantage did the deflated ball play in this game? They outscored Indy 17-7 with these illegal balls than outscored them 28-0 with the new legal balls. The point here is that people don't think the ball affected the outcome of the game rather the fact the Pats broke a rule. Nate Miles didn't effect the outcome of games but Calhoun broke a rule that was in place.

...and what rule did he break Fartman?

 

[Walker11]

The entire world knows they're talking about air-pressure.

Except, apparently, the dullard who just posted above me.

I 'd be shocked if throwing a 12 pound ball wasn't part of someones thought process.

 

[FriarJ]

I 'd be shocked if throwing a 12 pound ball wasn't part of someones thought process.

I will go on record and say the Pats beat the Colts even with a 12lb ball.

 

[Deepster]

Nope, don't post a link. You tell me where you believe coach Calhoun the cheated.

"His program" was guilty of improper contract with a recruit. He is responsible for that contact and if you choose to believe he really didn't know anything about what was going on, that's your choice. The NCAA apparently didn't care about that piece and it really doesn't matter at the end of the day. If you asked me my opinion? Knowing the level of control he has with everything related to the program? It's impossible that he was unaware of it. Nevertheless, he was suspended accordingly for the violation. "He" was guilty.

 

[pnow15]

"His program" was guilty of improper contract with a recruit. He is responsible for that contact and if you choose to believe he really didn't know anything about what was going on, that's your choice. The NCAA apparently didn't care about that piece and it really doesn't matter at the end of the day. If you asked me my opinion? Knowing the level of control he has with everything related to the program? It's impossible that he was unaware of it. Nevertheless, he was suspended accordingly for the violation. "He" was guilty.

The only thing Calhoun was truly guilty of was being the head coach of a championship program that was to be excluded from the the P-5.
UConn's men's basketball program was and is the 800 hundred lb gorilla in the P-5 offices. How can you justify forming super conferences for football and basketball by leaving the best BB program out. You can't. So try to destroy the program. Recruiting violations for a guy who never played a second? Please. Trying to avoid a major lawsuit on antitrust collusion? Yes.

 

[upstater]

I will go on record and say the Pats beat the Colts even with a 12lb ball.

A 12 pound ball would be very hard for Blount to jam down the Colts' throats. The deflated ball makes it much easier.

 

[mauconnfan]

A 12 pound ball would be very hard for Blount to jam down the Colts' throats. The deflated ball makes it much easier.

Yes but it would have been a "legal" ball he was trying to shove down their throats if it were at 12 up!

 

[upstater]

Yes but it would have been a "legal" ball he was trying to shove down their throats if it were at 12 up!

No, it would have been way off. A legal ball is 14 ounces. You're talking about a ball that weighs 200+ ounces.

 

[mauconnfan]

Don't worry upstater, Crack and gang this will all be forgotten as long as you bring this home:

 

[upstater]

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Don't worry upstater, Crack and gang this will all be forgotten as long as you bring this home:


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Nope, not a hater.

Giants fans are really funny. Of all teams--the place where Belichick cut his teeth. Coughlin gets a few chuckles too.

 

[mauconnfan]

Nope, not a hater.

Giants fans are really funny. Of all teams--the place where Belichick cut his teeth. Coughlin gets a few chuckles too.

Just having some fun. Belichick also cut his teeth at Wesleyan and I'm not a fan.

 

[David 76]

Clearly, the Pats are the victim here. Lets start a fundraiser.

 

[8893]

Clearly, the Pats are the victim here. Lets start a fundraiser.

I'm knitting Pats pom-pom hats to sell for the cause. Just like the adorable one Tommy wears.

Upstater, you need three, right? One for each head?

 

[David 76]

I have a line of 10 psi Pats footballs.
Setting up a benefit concert too. So far I have Milli Vanilli.

 

[superjohn]

Just when I thought this thread couldn't get any dumber, Patriots apologists start talking about 11 lb. footballs.

 

[tzznandrew]

Just when I thought this thread couldn't get any dumber, Patriots apologists start talking about 11 lb. footballs.

To be fair, numerous people have made this dumb mistake. It's all over the place.

 

[upstater]

Just when I thought this thread couldn't get any dumber, Patriots apologists start talking about 11 lb. footballs.

Ive never encountered a poster having more difficulty with posts than you, and that's saying something. It's pretty clear that the 3 or 4 posters referencing 11 pound balls are referring to many in the media who somehow inexplicably made this mistake, including the one writer highlighted on ESPN giving his write-up of Brady's PC: Ian O'Connor.

 

[CL82]

"His program" was guilty of improper contract with a recruit. He is responsible for that contact and if you choose to believe he really didn't know anything about what was going on, that's your choice. The NCAA apparently didn't care about that piece and it really doesn't matter at the end of the day. If you asked me my opinion? Knowing the level of control he has with everything related to the program? It's impossible that he was unaware of it. Nevertheless, he was suspended accordingly for the violation. "He" was guilty.

So Jim Calhoun never cheated but "his program did." Okay that's a bit of progress. What exactly did "the program do."

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Just when I thought this thread couldn't get any dumber, Patriots apologists start talking about 11 lb. footballs.

Eh you made it pretty dumb yourself. Guys, Mark Brunell is crying about this!!

 

[zyron]

Eh you made it pretty dumb yourself. Guys, Mark Brunell is crying about this!!

How is him posting what happened, and when many news media reports said the same, considered dumb?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

How is him posting what happened, and when many news media reports said the same, considered dumb?

I give zero duck about this nonstory so I'm not going to waste a ton of time on this but posting that some broke, washed up quarterback is literally crying about deflated balls on television as if it's proof of something is monumentally dumb. Granted, is it necessarily dumber than saying Brady's press conference was intended to prevent sales of Uggs from declining or some credentialed reporter talking about the weight of the balls, maybe not.

But this entire story is exhibit A of our national pastime of making, packaging and selling manufactured outrage over non-events and, frankly, guys like Superjohn are the target market.

 

[upstater]

All this after an unprecedented 6th Super Bowl for Brady.

How in the world does this 6th rd draft choice do it? No one else has ever been able to do it.

Must be... deflation. Or, ineligible receivers. Or, something else: make it up.

 

[methodology]

Aaron Hernandez must be innocent also since that's what he says

 

[upstater]

Aaron Hernandez must be innocent also since that's what he says

Everyone's guilty, the Pope told me so.

 

[whaler11]

Thanks to this thread I no longer feel any shame about any ridiculous argument I had on the Boneyard.

I will say that I enjoy when Superjohn and Bigern go at each other. Highly entertaining.

 

[superjohn]

I give zero duck about this nonstory so I'm not going to waste a ton of time on this but posting that some broke, washed up quarterback is literally crying about deflated balls on television as if it's proof of something is monumentally dumb. Granted, is it necessarily dumber than saying Brady's press conference was intended to prevent sales of Uggs from declining or some credentialed reporter talking about the weight of the balls, maybe not.

But this entire story is exhibit A of our national pastime of making, packaging and selling manufactured outrage over non-events and, frankly, guys like Superjohn are the target market.

BigErnMcCraken gives zero duck about this nonstory, that's why he's on a message board continually commenting on it. BigErn calling Brunell broke and washed up is hilarious, right up there with Chief hanging out with Drummond.