LII :::: the super bowl of hate :::: philadelphia eagles vs new england patritos

mordy trolling with the hypotheticals i guess but it is worth bringing up how the patriots were punished after being ineptly framed by another team and the league in the context of a discussion about how the league is biased in their favour

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, February 1, 2018 12:34 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i kinda tuned out all the various scandals can u explain to me the framing thank u

only the nfl can make scandal tedious lol smh

https://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/18/deflategate-one-year-later-tom-brady-bill-belichick

omg dont make me read that plz

i think the explanation is obvious - balls love to be deflated

i am exaggerating for fun and colour but the condensed version is that the ravens, acting on bad information, spite and self-pity, tipped off the nfl to set up a sting at half-time on the afc championship game, as a result of which the roger goodell, acting on bad information and some kind of god complex presumably, ordered a poorly executed inquiry which depending on your pov was either inconclusive or basically cleared the patriots and then he punished them excessively anyway

so were the balls not really deflated are we through the looking glass

Wasn't it the Colts?

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the balls were deflated to an extent consistent with physics and not requiring external action

no, the sting was the colts game, but it was the ravens who brought it up after the divisional

what abt the story of brady conspiring with an equipment manager or some shit

do you think belichick is good at settlers of cataan

def he knows everything abt the various sheep and rocks the game requires

He converts sheep into footballs

the ravens and colts, sick and tired of losing only bc Brady conspired to have the balls deflated so his aging hands could get a better grip, finally found a way to put an end to the Pats' illegitimate reign.

After the balls were replaced mid-game for fully inflated ones, the Patriots went on to miraculously decimate the Colts.

i mean, tbrrrrrr, my own personal pet theory which i have expounded previously on this subboard does include the patriots deflating the balls, in an unauthorized way but not with a result that i would describe as cheating for reasons in the circumstances, but it is as much conjecture as anyone else's published account and there is no legitimate definite by which the patriots could be described as having been "caught cheating" and the nfl just made a laughing stock of itself (again) and ne won the super bowl anyway (again)

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thats the guy right there who throws the blessed oblong

theres no doubt in mind that tom brady is the best at the game of olive ball

apparently passion of the christ 2 is going to be about the 4 weeks brady was suspended after deflategate

justice for tom, finally

jim caviezel as brady, mel gibson as jimmy g, danny glover as jacoby brisset

Sal Paolantonio just did a report that Doug Pederson likes ice cream and called his wife to confirm. Make two weeks between games illegal.

— DL (@davelozo) February 1, 2018

deflategate was 100% a makeup call for other shit Goddell wanted to punish the Pats for. of course it wound up blowing up in their faces

the problem is the NFL has no creativity with junk like this. instead of suspending him just make him play with overinflated balls for 4 games. if he suddenly turns into Blake Bortles, well, then you've got your answer

deflategate was def iffy. notice everyone is evading spygate.

well it is inarguable that the patriots failed to comply with a league-wide memo about from where precisely in the stadium sidelines could be filmed and were punished for their temerity. truly a scandal to resonate thru the ages.

In a report for ESPN, Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham contend that commissioner Roger Goodell's handling of Deflategate was influenced by his hasty and incomplete handling of the Spygate incident.[71] Van Natta Jr. and Wickersham argue that the true extent of the Spygate scandal was covered up by Goodell and the National Football League in order to protect the image of the NFL and as a favor to New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft, who was in part responsible for Goodell's promotion to commissioner.[71] The report alleges a highly complex system in which opposing teams' signals were recorded, decoded, and relayed to Patriots coaches and players on the field during games spanning at least 40 games between 2000 and 2007.[71]. This system also included a personal assistant to Bellichick who had a photographic memory and had the official title "Football Research Director", the only person with such a title in the NFL, he told congress stories about sneaking behind opponents benches and filming their huddles. According to the article a scout team would go out to future Patriot opponents and film signs and plays. They would then make a spreadsheet of all the signs and corresponding plays, Patriot staffers would then hand off the spreadsheets to the "football Research Director" who would match signals to the plays. The Patriots would also sometimes bring in former players of the team they were playing ask them if they accurately had recorded the signals, they would later cut the player.[72]

The article goes on to quote a former Patriots assistant as saying "things got out of control," in reference to the entire system of covert taping and signal decoding.

if true that would include the 2004 superbowl

good example of the specious and unsubstantiated guff that blew that story out of all proportion. thanks mordy. also

Seth Wickersham

patriots still reeling from his massive expose this season

lol theres no such thing as a photographic memory and even if there were why mention it

well, it's amazing what ppl can convince themselves of with sufficient desperation. which really brings us full circle

some great KEY STATS courtesy of warren sharp:

in the 11 games NE has lost since 2014, they averaged 22.4 ppg on offense, which is the exact average for all teams in all games in that period. the 11 teams they lost to averaged over 31 points in those games.

The last season that the Patriots lost a playoff game, they kicked off that postseason with a game in which Tom Brady tied for the lead in rushing attempts (6) and Steven Jackson led the team in rushing yards, with 16 (2.67 YPC).

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pre and postgame football parking lots are basically laid back riots
so much vomit everywhere

i saw a headline that eli thinks the eagles can beat the patriots. would've been so much more fun if he'd say they couldn't. "i've looked at this match up and there's just no way. you have to be really special to beat belichick and brady in a super bowl"

lol

Earlier today @DonnieWahlberg & @JennyMcCarthy stopped by the #NotDone Network: pic.twitter.com/clGJ549TUT

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) February 2, 2018

pats having the best celebrity fans by far is a big part of their popularity with fans of other teams

ribbed tneck under the hoodie classic boston look

what a lovely couple, they're aging in such a completely understandably horrible way. I will be looking forward to watching entropy have its way with them.

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tie x2

wow lol

so, a 12-12 tie then? 4 fgs each in regular time and then multiple scoreless overtime periods until everyone just gives up and goes home

truly the super bowl

mvp: drunk philly fan who dies falling from the upper deck in the 7th overtime

actually according to the rulebook if the super bowl is tied after overtime they enter a final sudden death period where each team starts with 11 players but has to field two fewer each change of possession until someone scores or it is one on one football, mano a mano, the purest football of all