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They are a very good team, which makes silly (and unnecessary) like deflating the ball indefensible.
deflated balls help offense. if the colts had deflated balls they'd be thrilled tbhEach team supplies its own game balls to use on offense, so no matter what, this has nothing to do with the Colts only scoring 7 points
I'm sure it has everything to do with the Colts getting murdered by the run though
This story is absolutely hilarious.
They are a very good team, which makes silly (and unnecessary) like deflating the ball indefensible.
It's a difference-making advantage only if they can't sustain their successes once that advantage has been taken away. Their post-Spygate track record just doesn't back that up; the only thing anyone can really argue is that they haven't won the Super Bowl since then, but they've made the Super Bowl 3 different times and been in the AFC championship game 5 times since then. Clearly, whatever advantage they gained by whatever they got off the tapes wasn't the most important thing in their success, since they've continued to be successful in ways that almost every other franchise could only dream of.Without the cameras they were still playoff material a lot of those years. No problem.
If you can't see how knowing the other teams play in advance doesn't give a huge cheating advantage......
You can keep harping on something that is now almost 10 years old. You don't seem to have any other colorable argument.
How ball pressure affected Blount running for 3td and 150 yrds?
That wasn't ball pressure, that was the Colts' ty defense.
The Seahawks' defense is light years better. Brady will not have such an easy time in the SB.
It also makes stories about deflating the ball that much more far fetched and re ed.
The Colts are the last team they would ever do this against when their running game produces plenty of points on its own.
Nothing but a bunch of unworthy cheaters:
http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/...sportscenterTW
Great teams generate a lot of hate and jealousy
We can take it
it didn't. i don't think anybody in their rational mind would blame this for the result of the game.
Sammy Sosa's corked bat was exposed on a groundout. the result isn't what matters in these sorts of proceedings
In a 1973 playoff game at the Coliseum, the Steelers insisted the Raiders kept sending in half-deflated balls onto the field whenever Pittsburgh tried a field goal -- with the words "Go Raiders!" scrawled on the ball.
Raiders
the raiders in the 70's and 80's were the dirtiest team in the league tbhIn a 1973 playoff game at the Coliseum, the Steelers insisted the Raiders kept sending in half-deflated balls onto the field whenever Pittsburgh tried a field goal -- with the words "Go Raiders!" scrawled on the ball.
... it was part of their mantra
In a 1973 playoff game at the Coliseum, the Steelers insisted the Raiders kept sending in half-deflated balls onto the field whenever Pittsburgh tried a field goal -- with the words "Go Raiders!" scrawled on the ball.
it was a different era, players were tougher and cheating was okay
the raiders were dirty and they embraced it. they had a banner in the locker room that said "cheating is encouraged"
i'm not saying it was OK back then... but at least they owned up to it
Dude...Jack Tatum...'nuff said...the raiders in the 70's and 80's were the dirtiest team in the league tbh
Dat tears...... Delicious
LOL this story is on the NBC national news right now.
I don't have a problem with those Raiders teams, but it's just funny how blatant cheating in the 70's is looked at now as humorous and "just the way it was", while any hint of cheating now has everyone wanting to strip your team of every victory in franchise history.the raiders were dirty and they embraced it. they had a banner in the locker room that said "cheating is encouraged"
i'm not saying it was OK back then... but at least they owned up to it
i don't know if its right to say "it was ok"... but if you're a cheating team (like the old Raiders were) then you deserve the cheater label and whatever comes with it. the raiders were dirty and have routinely been one of the more penalized teams in the league. everybody looks back at the old raiders and knows they were cheap and dirty. and raider fans for better or worse sorta just have to accept that those teams were cheap and dirty.
if this report turns out to be true (i have my doubts, tbh), then pats fans similarly should at least accept the cheating stigma that will probably be a part of the team, instead of trying to dismiss all of it as
0-2 in Super Bowls with dual reamings by Manning and a 6-6 record.
Now if we count this years escape against moron Balitmore and the Colts laydown, they zoom up to 8-6.
Hardly the material they got their rigged previous playoff stats from.
I still don't get how this is a national story
It's a byproduct of football's growth as a sport. It's the same reason why, in baseball, Ty Cobb's es or Gaylord Perry's spitballs are ignored but old got sportswriters start frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of steroids.
NFL....National Fake League
if ya ain't cheating, ya ain't trying.
this "story" is frankly, pathetic.
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