nfl 2014-15 playoffs: SUPER BOWL XLIX patriots vs. seahawks

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8CrI42CQAAlhlU.jpg

almost as good
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8CJu55CEAARAyS.jpg

has anyone asked tebow for his opinion on the matter

God did it

http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/314599/sports-illustrated-cuts-entire-photojournalism-staff/

brutal

wow damn

not cool

sort of a flag of surrender

photos were the only reason i still paid attention to si honestly

http://41.media.tumblr.com/94cf04a2ec402d325aea929279217926/tumblr_n2lr7nK9Qr1qeu6ilo1_500.jpg

cool early pic of tom brady

The name of the magazine is Sports Illustrated for god's sake. It was patterned after Life magazine. Photos are the reason for its existence.

hmm #12... 11 of 12 balls deflated

lol did u get that off the nixon tiwtter account xp

i was not aware of the nixon twitter account till now

Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon · 2h 2 hours ago
You know, Ray Rice beat a woman half to death. How about those footballs?

no thats the bad one you want @PresNixonUSA it nails the voice to an almost spooky extent

xxxxxp did not know dave eggers played ftball

anyway it tweeted that football pic 6 hours ago https://twitter.com/PresNixonUSA/status/558612906418638848

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12217376/baltimore-ravens-cut-nt-terrence-cody-amid-animal-cruelty-probe

no thats the bad one you want @PresNixonUSA it nails the voice to an almost spooky extent

― lag∞n, Friday, January 23, 2015 1:16 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

180deg wrong!

ur deg wrong

http://i.imgur.com/3kDF1WR.jpg

love the positivity

btw obvs shop used to say footballs

Pats about to make an announcement. Yikes.

"we have felt the balls and found them to be perfect thank you"

lol are they preempting the nfl investigation??

this is a massive fuck you to the nfl

omg he just dropped a my cousin vinny reference

so belichick just got up there and told everyone to fuck themselves didnt he

Loved the barely concealed rage

I felt a depth of empathy for BB I would never have imagined myself capable of

yup xp

classic

that was rad

need a ciggy now

http://youtu.be/rChfsndsIiA

bill needs to relax, most casual fans of the game don't care that he did it

"after conducting an internal investigation, we have concluded FUCK YOU!!!"

"greatest internal investigations of the nfl" gets better and better

I just think it's hilarious that the Patriots went from being seen as some incorruptible, pure dynasty and then pretty much since 2007, have been frequently embroiled in controversies every other year.

I mean it's a hilarious scandal and I'm glad for the entertainment (this really is Goodell's NFL), but this brand of cheating is no diff than Yogi Berra nicking baseballs with his shinguards. Deflated footballs didn't help tackles pick up blocks, help Brady read coverage, or force the Colts to miss tackles. The Patriots could have won if the ball was a rolled up newspaper. Fine em and let's move on.

But not before three more hilarious press conferences, please.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/8Jx63-NpUKQ

heh

it's been amazing to watch sports media coverage. i mean.. how do i say this.. a lot of sports media people do not seem to be good what i thought were sort of basic skills for a reasonably intelligent person .. such as not jumping to conclusions without evidence. and especially for a journalist, not reporting things as facts that haven't been proven to be facts. that sort of thing.

it seems like according to belichick, the explanation is that the pats scuff up the footballs a lot more than other teams do, and this process affects the pressure. this is why he is talking in press conferences about the process and how messed up the footballs are that they use in practice and in games

lots of sportswriters do not understand this even after belichick explained it - why didn't the footballs used by indianapolis come in at a lower pressure? uh.. because they are not going through the same process to prepare them? that's what he said isn't it?

yah the lack of accountability for these people is horrific; they can make accusations freely and will never answer for them.

its because sports is fake and doesnt matter

i used to think i wanted a career in journalism. in the past few years it has really dawned on me that if you happen to know a whole lot in detail about a particular subject, and then follow the work of media covering that subject, there are a handful of reporters who are really insightful, others who are not breaking a lot of stories but are at least reliable and honest, and then an absolute ton of analysts/writers/aggregators all over the web who get things wrong all the time in a really casual offhand way that never gets corrected by anyone

lots of things are fake and don't matter and have higher standards of accountability

like what

http://www.youtube.com/embed/8Jx63-NpUKQ

― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, January 24, 2015 9:57 PM (49 minutes ago)

lmfao what

it's been amazing to watch sports media coverage. i mean.. how do i say this.. a lot of sports media people do not seem to be good what i thought were sort of basic skills for a reasonably intelligent person .. such as not jumping to conclusions without evidence. and especially for a journalist, not reporting things as facts that haven't been proven to be facts. that sort of thing.

^agree with everything here, daria-g, except i've found it hasn't been restricted to sports media people. i've seen some jaw-dropping things on straight-up news outlets like cnn this week (nvm fox!).

Bill Nye NOT IMPRESSED

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/25/bill-nye-says-bill-belichick-made-no-sense/?cid=Yahoo