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Originally Posted by infamousdiz
You throw around cheating like someone was paid to take a dive, a slightly
lower pressure in the ball, come on. Someone should investigate the colts of playing to terrible maybe they did take a dive? Cowardly for what protecting his privacy. Vacate wins? you do know it was only played unfairly for 30mins? then the real ass kicking started.
Tarnish him, high doubtful he will go on to play a few more years and maybe even win another one what will be your excuse then? Your thought on how much advantage the psi in the balls gave is absurd. Everyone that knows anything about being a QB will say it is all preference that just happened to be not with in the rules
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Red:
Why is it that you find it necessary to exculpate someone for violating the trust that was given to them, not only by the NFL, but also by the fans? It's a matter of professional ethics. Period.
There are no degrees of cheating. One either followed the stated rules without exception or one knowingly didn't. (Particularly rules that one is given the benefit of the doubt with regard to compliance.) Regardless of the outcome, the fact remains that multiple individuals in one organization willfully took it upon themselves on multiple instances in one game -- first by underinflating the balls and second by not doing anything to correct their teammates actions to that end -- to clandestinely circumvent the rules and sought thereby to gain advantages for their team.
BTW, 30 minutes is half of a football game. Winning plays and successions of plays have been made in far less time.
Are those things common? Of course not. That isn't the point.
If he does so without violating the rules which he himself agreed to follow, there won't be anything to say.
As an aside, once the under inflated balls were discovered, and seeing as each team maintains responsibility for the balls used, had the league simply required the Patriots to forfeit the game for having used them for half of the game, I'd have considered that sufficient punishment. Given that the onus for integrity, honestly, with regard to rule compliance rested on the respective teams, I feel a "shoot first, ask questions later" approach would have been warranted.
Blue:
So long as the man adheres to the letter of the rules stipulated while the game is being played, there'll be nothing to gripe about.
Green:
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http://www.indystar.com/story/sports...gate/22110063/
All the best.