Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire New England cheated?

Just heard the league if investigating.

The coach is known as Belicheat for a reason.

They are investigating whether Ne deflated the balls to help combat the high winds

The home teams provides 30 balls, and hands them over to the referees. The referees hand the balls out to the teams on the field.
So, if New England underinflated the balls, the Colts would have been playing with the same balls. No advantage.

Further, it seems like the refs would have an air pressure gauge, and would check the balls.

The Colts used the same balls so that would negate the advantage. Still, any attempt to cheat should result in severe penalties. Of course forfeiting the game wouldn't even be considered.

Pretty much everything other than vacating the win is a non event and there is no way that is happening.

I watched the game & the only team that had their balls deflated were the Colts.

"New England cheated?"

Good, I hope they do so again in two weeks!
Also-I despise NE, yet despise is too soft for how I feel about the Seahawks and Carrol. That said-props to Seattle for not quitting.

Of course they did. They always cheat.

Well, if the shehawks had to play the Colts they could win the SB again. Dynasty baby. Crook it.

The NFL is the one who should be investigated , for letting the Patriots play a second rate team like the Colts in a Championship Game

But A Luck is the future face of the NFL????

Haters gonna hate. That's all this is.

Really weird how a deflated ball helped NE but not Indy?!?

And didn't the refs handle the ball after EVERY play to set the line of scrimmage? Seems like they would have noticed if they were deflated. Sounds like sour grapes to me.

What a bunch of horse crap.

So the NFL is supposed to disqualify a playoff winner because they don't like them?

Citing a person familiar with the background of the matter, Newsday reported Monday that the Colts first noticed something unusual after an interception by Colts linebacker D'Qwell Jackson late in the second quarter.

Newsday reported that Jackson then gave the ball to a member of the Colts' equipment staff, who noticed the ball seemed underinflated. At that point, coach Chuck Pagano and general manager Ryan Grigson were notified, and Grigson alerted NFL director of football operations Mike Kensil, according to the report.

Pagano said he did not notice issues with the football, and he didn't specify when asked whether the Colts had reported the issue to officials.

"We talk just like they talk to officials [before the game], we have an opportunity to talk to the officials about a lot of things, things that you've seen on tape like the formations we talked about last week," Pagano said. "Every coach in the league gets an opportunity to visit with the officials about that kind of stuff before the game."

An under-inflated football could be easier to grip and catch. NFL rules stipulate that footballs must be inflated between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch and weigh between 14 and 15 ounces.

Former NFL official Jim Daopoulos, in an interview with ESPN on Monday morning, explained the process in which footballs are managed. Two hours and 15 minutes before each game, officials inspect 12 footballs from each team and put a mark on them to indicate they meet the proper requirements and are good for usage. Then those footballs are given to the ball attendant.

There also is a second set of six footballs, used specifically for the kicking game, that are marked appropriately and remain in the possession of officials at all times.

"Officials check balls as they go into the game, and if the ball doesn't feel perfect, they can throw it out," Daopoulos said. "There is always the possibility that balls can lose air due to the conditions."

might as well just hand out trophys to all the teams. Everyone could be a winner, and no one would get a sandy vagina.