Refs didn't actually check the game balls?
Keep in mind that this is coming from a Boston area reporter. If true, it's a head scratcher and makes me say WTF!
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Report: Under-inflated balls were approved by refs prior to AFC Championship game
BOSTON — Referees approved the footballs used by the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game, even though they were under the NFL’s allowable PSI prior to the game, CBS Boston reports.
According to CBS Boston, sources said referees approved 12 game footballs prior to the game, and the under inflated footballs were perhaps not inspected properly.
From CBS Boston reporter:
One thing that has been reported this last week, as we’ve been learning about how footballs are treated before a game is that before every game, a referee measured with a pressure gauge each football to see if the pressure in each one is between 12.5 and 13.5 PSI.
But that apparently isn’t always the case. As a matter of fact, from what I’ve been told, many times the refs don’t test the pressure of each ball with a gauge at all. Sometimes refs hold the ball, squeeze it, briefly inspect it, then sign off on it. Next ball. It’s never been a problem before. This is apparently a well known fact in the NFL.
Now according to my sources, The Patriots turned in their footballs to the ref at a pressure just below the allowable PSI.
If it’s a situation where the refs DID use a gauge, the refs would see the balls were under inflated, and inflate them to the proper size. But in this case, the balls were approved and given back to the Patriots under-inflated.
Thus, the under-inflated balls. The Patriots, according to my sources, played with league approved deflated balls.
This is just the latest turn in the bizarre saga of Deflate-gate.
On Monday, the NFL reportedly interviewed a locker-room attendant who may have had contact with the footballs after they were handled by the refs.
http://q13fox.com/2015/01/27/report-...pionship-game/
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/...ots/ar-AA8DMF1
98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Toucher and Rich Show” reports that the Patriots turned in their game balls slightly under-inflated and an official — presumably head referee Walt Anderson — signed off on them. The show’s source indicated that a pressure gauge was not used.
Complete BS!
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What a crock of s***. Good luck NFL. I for one am sick and tired of rules that are not enforced or enforced inconsistently. If this turns out to be true, there will be a s*** storm coming.
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Cue fartacus and his jizzed up z key, enlightening us on what this all really means. Thanks in advance troll.
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laziness on the part of the refs does not excuse intentional cheating on the part of the filthy cheating cheaters who cheat cheat cheat
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They submitted under-inflated game balls to the refs who signed off on them. I was wondering why, in Belicheat's last presser, who made the point that he asked the refs to "inflate to 12.5 psi." I thought that was an unusual thing to say.
You only ask to inflate something when it is under-inflated. The Cheatriots knew what the psi's were.
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So the refs are in on it with the Patriots. No ****, it's not like that hasn't been obvious for 15 years or more.
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Sounds like speculation...speculation on the part of Patriots-Land to explain it away.
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I'm Bob Kraft and I approve of this story.
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cookie G
I'm Bob Kraft and I approve of this story.
and as a result, expect an apology from the league immediately.
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And how do we know the balls wwere underinflated when the pats turned them over to the refs if the refs didn't test them?
Oh, that's right, a SOURCE says so.
And how does this SOURCE know this?
Hmmmmmmmmmm? Was he in the room when Brady gave the ball-boy his instructions?
I suspect if we ever see a picture of this "source", it will look suspiciously like the inside of someone's colon...
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Patriots and refs in cahoots? Couldn't be.
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Bingo.... now STFU, as, I posted in the other thread...
The rule says the balls must be in the possession of the refs 2 hours before game time so that they can be tested for specs, it does not say that the balls must meet those specs when delivered to the ref. So, if the balls arrived underinflated and the ref missed it, no rules were violated.
I laugh
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Go Pats Go.
Americas Team.
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upstart
Life is good
For donkey balls ass deep cheaters, you'll get corn-holed with any luck now.
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So now it looks like the Refs did check the balls pressure before the game and the other news story is the Boston media trying to spin things.
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League has no record of PSI in Patriots' footballs
When referee Walt Anderson checked the game balls for the AFC Championship Game, he did not log the PSI. He just approved them.
NFL head of officiating Dean Blandino was asked Thursday if the league has any proof beyond Anderson's word that the footballs were inflated to the required 12.5-13.5 pounds per square inch.
"We did review what happened pregame, and from everything that we reviewed and all the information we had, the balls were properly tested prior to the game,” Blandino responded, acknowledging there's no record of the exact PSI.
"And then there was an issue that was brought up during the first half,” Blandino said. “A football came into question, then the decision was made to test them at halftime. There's an investigation going on, I can't get into too many specifics but really that's the chain of events that occurred.”
The halftime check showed the Patriots' footballs were underinflated. The NFL is trying to determine whether it resulted from "deliberate action." The league has video of a Pats employee taking the Patriots' and Colts' game balls to the bathroom for 90 seconds, on his way to the field, per Pro Football Talk.
But now the league has admitted it won't be able to prove how much the footballs were deflated.
In this ongoing investigation, "a detailed log of the inflation levels of each football is a piece of evidence the NFL should have," PFT said.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-...iots-footballs
The bad part about this is without a record, it's just another hurdle to prove the cheating.
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Well really, did anyone actually picture the refs checking 24 balls with gauges before each game ? They sign the paper.
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Obviously Kraft paid off the refs. How can anyone not believe everything bad said about the PatriotsÉ
If it wasn`t true, they wouldn`t say it.
Only the Patriots lie. Their winning record proves it.
Everyone else doesn`t lie, and that`s why they lose.
Duh!
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MitchMurrayDowntown
For donkey balls ass deep cheaters, you'll get corn-holed with any luck now.
can anyone get in on this or ...
http://estergoldberg.typepad.com/.a/...6176970b-500wi