The true culprit behind the deflated footballs..."Harry!"
Barf!
Read more: Blandino says NFL will look at permitted pressure rangeBlandino says NFL will look at permitted pressure range
The entire #DeflateGate controversy sprang from the provision in Rule 2 of the official NFL rule book regarding the mandate that the football be filled with enough air to create 12.5 to 13.5 PSI of internal pressure.
That’s been the standard for a very long time, according to NFL V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino.
“I have rule books going back to 1940 in my office, and that was in the 1940 rule book,” Blandino told reporters this week during a Super Bowl football operations press conference. “[NFL Senior Vice President of Player Personnel and Football Operations] Joel Bussert, who many of you know in the league office who’s kind of a historian, he’s got rule books that go back prior to that. It’s been in there even before 1940.”
So where does the range come from?
“[W]e really rely on the experts in the football world, [football manufacturer] Wilson, to give us that number,” Blandino said. “That’s where that spectrum comes from. I feel like we will review that with Wilson and the Competition Committee to look at if we need to have a range or what will that acceptable range be.”
Why don't they just go the whole route and change the rulebook to make it illegal to even touch Tom "His Exalted Holiness" Brady as well, since that's obviously who this is a sop for?
Oh, and since laws against murder have also been the standard for a very long time and Tommy can always use another weapon, let's look at getting those repealed as well so he can have Hernandez back. I'm sure all the racists in Boston will have no problem looking the other way since Odin Lloyd was "only" black anyway.
I'm DONE with this goddamn league until Goodell and his fucking goons are gone!
I join you FS. I knew they were going to blame the rule. And the NFL stamp of approval is the SB to the Cheats.
Goodell has to go.
Now if we can get about 100 million more people to do so, maybe the owners will finally take notice. Nobody can really sit there and complain and still continue to watch at this point, because continuing to watch is the same as tacit approval of Goodell. Time to make a stand.
Hater = Realist
Doesn't explain the precipitous drop in their fumbling as a team as compared to the rest of the league since 2007 when the rule was coincidentally changed to allow teams to furnish their own footballs.
I'm sure Belichick is just such an awesome genius coach that he taught them to stop fumbling too...
The fumble stats have been thoroughly debunked. The original study was basically fundamentally flawed and #'s were used with no understanding of context or league wide comparison.
http://regressing.deadspin.com/why-t...mos-1681805710
Article is long, but it was written by two stats profs and basically says that math is hard and the first set of articles about the Pats fumbles did not do the math well at all.
Just wondering. Has anyone heard anything on the investigation into the deflated footballs. I think the investigation is set to resume as soon as the find the missing footballs in question.
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