This game is starting to become not about football, but about instant replay, can we beat the referee, is the ball flat, did the helmet his the helmet - or miss it? Did the DB "touch" the WR or didn't he, did the ball touch the ground in a area where NO one sees it? My best player stubbed his toe, so we lost.
I say, dump the cameras, let the referees call the game they SEE, not what the booth sees on a television. Play football - not e-ball.
These kinds of allegations come up all the time and fall by the wayside -- but for some reason, the general 'football public' seems to want a piece of Belichick -- or Brady. Who knows why? Is it the fans want to see a hero fail, is it that fans don't want anyone to achieve those goals.
NE fan or not, there is not one person that knows football that can say truthfully that Brady is not one of the greatest quarterback in the game today. His record speaks for itself. He needs NO cheating to win. So, why do it ... even if the NFL comes down and says, 'Opps, yes the ball was a little low". Unless they have checked that particular pressure in other games, and have a record of 'stable pressure' during games and temperature changes, and calibrate gauges, and all that, who's to say plenty of games have been played with slightly out of pressure balls ... Does the league test every ball when a FG kicker sets a record? Very unlikely -- only when some LOSER complains, and then it suddenly (after a hundred years of football) becomes the most important thing in NFL history -- well, it ain't - and I don't care if it's Patriots, Giants, GB, Lions, Bears or any other team. This should never happen to a team unless it's part of every day .
I'm always amazed when fans or sports announcers raise one specific QB who happens to have a "GREAT" PR department, and shows up in dumb commercials, gets raved and raved, claimed as "best ever" yet has a LOSING record in playoff games, the games that really count. Bet you can name that player without me telling his name? PR makes fans THINK a player is good, when the stats on the field are what proves it -- I'll remind every one of a recent Florida QB who 'stormed the press" when he arrived as a PRO, and fell flat on his face. Press does not make a football player, it only makes the public think he is a great player, until he proves otherwise -- same with accusations. The accusations runs on the front page in huge font, the retraction runs below a RE ad in the sales section. How fair is that?
It's all about the money now, and the press hype, and can we scream something to get the public to read our words, or watch boring repetitive analysis ... the press will beat this to death unless some player makes a bigger splash temporarily.
Best winning combination of coach / QB in NFL history - that says something, and it's not the word "Cheat" -- Matter of fact, I don't even care if the balls were soft - it makes NO difference in that game ... or most other games, and I bet NOT ONE game ball has ever been "tested" during or after a game, ever, and I bet a lot of balls lose or gain pressure during a game, or were slightly off at the beginning, or scratched. NOW, some loser (whether Raven or Colt, who cares?) screams to find a reason they lost instead of realizing a better team beat them on that day.
It reminds me if Bill Walsh, good coach, won Superbowls with great QB and great teams -- but EVERY SINGLE TIME he lost any game, he spoke to the press and blamed it on an official, an injury, or something else. It made me lose respect for him as a coach -- some days, you just get beat - no reason.
