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#DeflateGate
« on: January 20, 2015, 10:35:26 pm »
http://www.wthr.com/story/27881499/source-tells-bob-kravitz-that-patriots-may-have-deflated-footballs-against-colts

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A source within the NFL tells WTHR.com's Bob Kravitz that the league is investigating the possibility that the Patriots deflated footballs in their 45-7 win over the Colts Sunday night at Gillette Stadium.

The source told Kravitz that officials took a ball out of play at one point and weighed it. His tweet reporting the news shortly before 1 a.m. Monday quickly spread across social media and has been dubbed "DeflateGate."

New York Newsday's Bob Glauber tweeted around 7 a.m. Monday that NFL Spokesman Michael Signora confirmed the WTHR exclusive that the NFL is looking into whether footballs were properly inflated during the Colts-Patriots game.

"We'll cooperate fully with whatever the league wants us to, whatever questions they ask," Patriots coach Bill Belichick told the media Monday

Andrew Dobson will not stand for this!

(By the way, I wasn't sure where to put this.)

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015, 10:51:20 pm »
If we don't have a sports section, then I see no problem with this being in TV/Entertainment.  Football is entertainment.   To a lot of folks, at least.

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2015, 11:07:09 pm »
Don't deflated balls fly shorter distances than full ones anyway?
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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2015, 11:18:44 pm »
Easier to catch as well.  Kinda needed when the weather is gonna be as crappy as it was.  Ultimately this means nothing as the Colts played like ass.

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2015, 01:40:12 am »
Listen UPyourownass, you have been fucking debating this for 50+ pages and-
Whoops, wrong -gate.
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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2015, 03:02:45 am »
Actually, it's about ethics in football inflation.

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2015, 08:12:17 am »
People are CHEATING in SPORTS?!  Verily, this must truly be a sign of the End Times.
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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2015, 08:26:46 am »
Actually it's about ethics in-

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2015, 10:45:26 am »
So it turns out there's meat to this story.  11 of the 12 balls tested were all underweight by 2 pounds.  Doesn't sound like a lot to us laymen but due to the fact that I'm a raging football fan I know that's a fucking ton out there on the field.  It ultimately means nothing to the Colts as they played like garbage but if they did this for the Ravens' game that's some serious bullshit.

Ironbite-as that was a game.

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2015, 02:41:21 pm »
So it turns out there's meat to this story.  11 of the 12 balls tested were all underweight by 2 pounds.  Doesn't sound like a lot to us laymen but due to the fact that I'm a raging football fan I know that's a fucking ton out there on the field.

I was really confused by this because 2 pounds sounds like a lot more than what a football weighs. Then I googled it and it turns out it's 2 psi, not pounds (so about 15% below regulation pressure).

Some small part of me hates itself after using imperial units and referring to an American football egg as a "football"
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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2015, 03:16:35 pm »
So it turns out there's meat to this story.  11 of the 12 balls tested were all underweight by 2 pounds.  Doesn't sound like a lot to us laymen but due to the fact that I'm a raging football fan I know that's a fucking ton out there on the field.

I was really confused by this because 2 pounds sounds like a lot more than what a football weighs. Then I googled it and it turns out it's 2 psi, not pounds (so about 15% below regulation pressure).

Some small part of me hates itself after using imperial units and referring to an American football egg as a "football"

For me it is still handegg since it has nothing to do with real football.
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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2015, 04:43:42 pm »
Okay, so call it Yankball.

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2015, 04:46:24 pm »
I have no trouble calling it football.

Incidentally, I almost played American Football in high school, just missed practice.

I really do not get this weird thing about the sports.
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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2015, 05:17:50 pm »
Down with this sort of thing!

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Re: #DeflateGate
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2015, 06:15:51 pm »
So it turns out there's meat to this story.  11 of the 12 balls tested were all underweight by 2 pounds.  Doesn't sound like a lot to us laymen but due to the fact that I'm a raging football fan I know that's a fucking ton out there on the field.

I was really confused by this because 2 pounds sounds like a lot more than what a football weighs. Then I googled it and it turns out it's 2 psi, not pounds (so about 15% below regulation pressure).

Some small part of me hates itself after using imperial units and referring to an American football egg as a "football"

For me it is still handegg since it has nothing to do with real football.

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