dont the refs test then possess the balls from before game time, were the ball boys doing it whats the story idgi
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
there was a tom brady double on the sidelines going over game plans while the real tom brady deflated balls in the locker room
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
the patriots are diabolical
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
It was the NFL that performed the deflation, if anyone. I mean uhh ratings $$$$ etc
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
"Weigh these balls bitches."
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyy996pCMH1rp2jyto1_250.png
― earlnash, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link
ban the pats
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:11 (nine years ago) link
god just take their 3rd round pick and stfu everyone
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
this is hilarious to me
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
Part of the investigation that needs further vetting is how the 11 footballs became underinflated.
The game balls that each team received for preparation were required to be inspected and approved by referee Walt Anderson two hours and 15 minutes before kickoff, then returned to a ball attendant.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Under NFL rules, each team provides balls each game for use when its offense is on the field. The balls are inspected before the game by the officiating crew, then handled during the game by home-team personnel.
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
ll this seems like a bad system!
otm that is my 1 takeaway from this whole nonsense
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
uhh yeah "bring your own footballs" seems like a pretty bad system
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
we will text them then return them to you!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
proposal: 1 (one) football per game. if something happens to that ball, there is a giant hamper full of like soccer balls, beach balls, nerf, etc and the offense can grab whichever they want
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
maybe not a better system but equivalent
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
before every snap, the qb should have to replace a golden idol with the football. if the football is underweight, they play the down under threat of death by giant boulder. also, all of the football will necessarily be played with a golden idol instead of a football in this scenario.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Replacing the ball with a cat or squirrel would make fumble recoveries a lot more entertaining.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
yes, a golden idol of a cat or squirrel god should be fine
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
whichever rodent god idol is the team's mascot maybe?
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
perhaps the game should be changed to a 1-on-1 scenario where a representative priest or nickel cornerback of each team places a deflated ball in front of a golden idol of his team's rodent god. The team whose rodent god first inflates a ball to regulation weight wins the football game.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXYx9PLrjtk
― am0n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
After catching an interception in the second quarter, Colts linebacker D'Qwell Jackson noticed the ball was less inflated than usual. On the sidelines, he passed it over to an equipment manager, and it eventually made its way to the team's general manager, then the NFL's director of football operations. He told the game officials at halftime, but the balls were apparently never swapped out.
smh snitch
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
An even bigger mystery is how the officials — who handle the balls before every single play — didn't notice they were under-inflated, when one touch by Jackson caught his attention.
tru
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
current espn story now says the colts noticed underinflated balls in their previous game against the pats
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
ha wow
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
maybe theyve been doing it for 15 years
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
quotes brady in 2011 saying he likes saggy balls
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm guessing that the equipment manager is deflating the balls after inspection. This shit already happened to Kiffin at USC.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/11/08/usc-fined-deflated-game-balls/1691303/
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
cld swap them out for diff balls too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
I'm guessing that the manager fabricated an inflator needle attached to a hollow metal ring that he wears on his finger. The ring has holes along the edge that allows air to escape
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
and he's doing that qb thing where you hold the football close to your chest and swivel at the waist all "hey guys! this one feels good!"
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
but he is actually doing dirty deeds
what if the balls were flat just cause it got colder
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
thats cheating
― am0n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/01/patriots-deflate-ball-super-bowl-disqualified-penalties-sanctions
― am0n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/ap_super_bowl_footballs_70179250.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
lol
obama on capturing belichick: "we got him"
― am0n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Have some HOT TAKE ACTION! As mocked.
http://deadspin.com/the-ballghazi-takes-are-here-and-they-are-fucking-insa-1680877948
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
if the pats didn't deflate the balls the colts would have won 55-0. those INTs from Luck are really out of character, he's the best QB in the NFL.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
nfl sld get down on its knees and thank the patriots for being such a perfect heel
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
nature boy bill belichick
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Why do I need anyone in football to have integrity?
this guy gets it
― men without hat tips (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
bone integrity is important
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
fill the balls up with bone broth imo
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
@EasterbrookGLuck hand: 10”. Brady hand: 9.4”. No way Belichick didn’t know this. if footballs equal, advantage to Colts in rain.
science
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
xxp the colts did that too, or were alleged to, a while back, but i don't think there was that big an outcry over it - i mean, it's hysterical and lame, but who cares
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
dunno if the Vikings do this but I have buddies in Minnesota who go to the games and are 100% convinced they do
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
there was a little but of fuss when indy were accused because they were good at the time but iirc they were exonerated by the nfl and it was quickly rug swept. falx might still be same of course
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
browns thing is weird, are they really going to lose a draft pick?
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
indy also jacked up the temperature in the rca dome in the second half of the 2006 afc championship game, god what a hateful team.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:36 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean it's the Browns, did they ever really *have* the pick
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
indy also freed Willie Horton iirc
http://deadspin.com/jimmy-haslam-is-the-dented-can-store-jerry-jones-1683801186
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
looool
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
hallelujah http://regressing.deadspin.com/stop-trying-to-convince-yourselves-seattles-pass-call-w-1683463031
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
the call was bad bc you have to know the Pats will cheat there
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
butler's vision = a secret contact lens that showed him the play before the snap
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Wilson was trying to spike the ball but he hit the wrong button on the controller
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
the fake-spike-throw-deep play would have been good in that situation
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
it's alright, Seahawks will take this one in 6
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
Apparently kam chance played the whole game w a torn mcl like nbd
― Steph def def (Spottie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
hardman
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
damn
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
mustve just been a partial
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
Yah and a deep contusion too
― Steph def def (Spottie), Thursday, 5 February 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/OFqJTT5L9gD
― 龜, Thursday, 5 February 2015 13:08 (nine years ago) link
hahaha omg
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 February 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
there is the ever so slight whiff of a lost bet there
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
The vine actually omits his follow up punch and then slamming the entire tv stand down into the coffee table.
― Evan, Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/no-more-the-nfls-domestic-violence-partner-is-a-sham-1683348576
#brands
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
the bible and style standards notes are just cheap shots; every logo in existence, Red Cross and MSF inclusive, has those restrictionsbeing unable to point to a dollar figure or concrete goal is thoroughly damning though. should've donated the money to an extant NPO and cobranded but that's the nfl for you
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I think this past season of the NFL is pretty much total confirmation that the sport has moved into it's pro wrestling stage. It's got to be now the biggest and dumbest sport on the planet, which is probably why it so successful. I grew up with profootball but I think the whole thing is kinda become un-watchable in a way as it just ugly. You can get lost in the athletic prowess of the sport, but everything else has gotten obnoxious to the max from the Commissioners and owners on down.
― earlnash, Friday, 6 February 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
idk
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 6 February 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9LCjqSCIAQYRh_.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 February 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
I always thought pro wrestling was best when it embraced its own ridiculousness, something the NFL probably will never do
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/nationwide-cmo-departs-wake-dead-buy-super-bowl-ad/298485/
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 9 May 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
more than one boy died that day rip
― lag∞n, Saturday, 9 May 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
http://36.media.tumblr.com/bf3b11905bf57bd4a202124e563e8d72/tumblr_ninz77XAOP1sfjv6qo1_1280.png
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Saturday, 9 May 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link