Should The Patriots Be Disqualified From The Super Bowl?

[BillsImpossible]

The Patriots cheated on purpose to win. Deflategate wasn't a fluke.

Disqualification? Call up the Colts and tell them they're going to the Super Bowl?

Yay or neh?

[SpikedLemonade]

Are you serious?

[YardRat]

Not only should they not play in the Super Bowl, Belicheck should be banned for life, Brady should be banned from any and all honors including the HOF and Kraft should be forced to sell the team. **** 'em all, they've been cheating for a decade almost that we know of, and who the hell really knows what transgressions they've committed prior to Spygate or in between that and Inflategate. The entire relationship started on sketchy ground with BB's hiring, and has only gotten worse. Where there is smoke, there is fire, and that piece of **** organization is burning down the house.

Never going to happen, though. Nobody has the balls to push the nuclear option, and money talks.

[notacon]

I made my case earlier today. Unequivocally YES. They should forfeit the Colts game. We should have a Seahawks-Colts Supper Bowl. If not, this whole season s compromised.

To those that say that because the Pats beat Indy 40 whatever to 7, and it does not "change the outcome of the blowout", or that it's "not that big of a deal", that it was "not such a big deal in this game", or "it's not about the Colts losing the game", or "Blount didn't need a(n) underinflated ball to run all over them"...and all the other defenses or rationalizations....

I disagree vehemently.

Of COUSE it makes a big difference, and it could certainly have been a BIG difference in that very game.

THAT IS WHY THERE ARE RULES!!! One breaks the rules that are determined to ensure there is no artificial competitive advantage with the very basis of how the game is played (the equipment), it's cheating...pure and simple, and the "win" the Pats got out of this is, in my book, INVALID!!

Why else do the Pats deflate balls but to give themselves an unfair advantage. Who knows how many throws that were catches would not be so, or turn into a deflected INT. THAT is the point. ANY play can be a turning point of a game. Like we saw in Seattle, would that on-side kick been recovered by Green Bay if the ball was a little softer??

The punishment should be, the Pats forfeit the Colts game and Indy plays in the Super Bowl. It won't happen, but, it should. Why?

Because the integrity of that game is nonexistent. A game is supposed to determined who plays better for that game, at that time. This action unfairly skews that whole premise and having the winner advance. There will always be questions....did the Pats win the game "fairly" (absolutely NO!!), if both teams were playing with the mandated equal equipment would the results be different? No one knows, which is why the game is NOT a reflection of who won "fair and square", and the Pats committed an offense that deserves forfeiting the game.

In the regular season, if caught doing this, they should get a loss and the other team gets a win. Period, end of story.

This just happened to take place in a winner advance playoff game...so, the Pats do not advance. Period, end of story.

[OpIv37]

It's irrelevant.

Disqualifying the Patriots would be a public relations disaster for the NFL, not to mention a logistical nightmare to get the Colts there and prepared on time.

It's not going to happen.

[notacon]

It's irrelevant.

Disqualifying the Patriots would be a public relations disaster for the NFL, not to mention a logistical nightmare to get the Colts there and prepared on time.

It's not going to happen.

That's not the question. Of course the Pats won't forfeit the game they blatantly cheated in. They should though.

[Strongman]

At the very minimum, Brady should be benched for the Super Bowl.

[HHURRICANE]

Well at the end of the day, they'll play and win. If you want to put an asterisk next to them have at it.

[Woodman]

Answer to the question yep. (the cheating bastards gotta be disqualified)

Feb 1st ... (Ravens vs. Broncos)

Feb 8th ... Colts play winner of above matchup.

Feb. 15th "THE REAL SUPER BOWL" ..... Seattle vs. ___________ .

Problem solved.

One last thing ... Bill B. should be banned for next season.

[ICRockets]

No, of course they shouldn't. The punishment will be lost draft picks, and if the investigation finds that this was something the Pats were doing on the regular, then Kraft needs to be fined several million dollars, and Belichick needs to be indefinitely suspended by the league. You can't kick people out of the league for hitting family members and then turn around and do nothing when games are being manipulated.

But all that said, overturning the outcome of the game is an absurd ask.

[Downinfloflo]

The NFL will give them a fine, and take away a few picks.

Nothing the team won't get over in a week.

[paladin warrior]

Should hold on in a little while with investigation and cancel SB on the Feb 1 st and change the date SB . Hopefully. NFL Court or congress Disqualified for patriots and change into SB Colts vs Seattle Seahawks.

[BuffaloRedleg]

Goodell is a pussy I'm willing to bet nothing happens. He has continuously shown to be a total stooge without any integrity.

Don't rock the boat baby, people making money hand over fist.

Money above all else.

[Strongman]

Goodell will do something... Like put out a memo that any Seahawk doing a TD celebration during the SB that mocks under inflated football will be heavily fined.

[YardRat]

Logistics my ass...it's simply a matter of flying one team out, and another team in. That's the easy part. The real stickler is money, and viewership.

[Meathead]

belicheat and marcia take four viagra each then watch porn with their wiener submerged in ice water for four hours

its called water boning

[ICRockets]

One thing I'm definitely interested to see in the aftermath of this, is what Tom Brady does this offseason. I think if he knew about this, he's a lock to stay with the Pats. But he's got a window to leave this spring because of the contract restructure they just went through. If I'm Tom Brady and I had nothing to do with deflating the balls, I get the hell out of Foxboro and go to a franchise that is not known for this sort of horsecrap.

[coastal]

Suspend Bellicheat and that Ugg wearing homo Brady from the game and all of next year.

[Novacane]

I hope this is all that's talked about super bowl week. Embarrass Goodell and the NFL. If the media doesn't let this die it won't.

[kscdogbillsfan1221]

i think you have to suspend bellicheat for a year. See the bountygate scandal which was not so much an integrity of the game issue, but a game safety issue. Nobody ever proved that Sean Payton had any clue what was going on, yet they laid the hammer on him for that issue. That should be precedent enough (especially given prior bad acts) to suspend the coach for at least a year.

that being said... No, i do not believe they should forfeit the game, etc