#DFG: Canceling the Noise

Is there any level of suspension that you would advise Tom to accept?


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Harry Hooper

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I'm going to be disappointed if the next rumor that emerges doesn't involve the phrase "Dark Arts".
 
 
Found in one of Ernie's notebooks:
 
 

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There must be a scientific explanation on how the balls could deflate. Maybe they put antimatter into them.
Antimatter is ridiculously expensive to make, and it only lasts millionths of a second. There is also the obvious containment issues: electrons and positrons annihilate on contact.
 
Tom Brady knows this, which is why he probalby learned to stabilize the field with an inverted ground state Muonic pulse generator.
Also, the 275 GeV that the football pumped out would totally interfere with the Spider Cam, Defensive Signals, and most semiconductor based communications within ~45 miles of the stadium.   
There is another problem in that there would be a sizable "event" if Gronk spiked a football with antimatter in it.
 
In short, it may have just been the external temperature.
 

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That breathy ABC report tells me national media is still good at throwing crap around as the local boys and gals, just with fancier graphics. Integrity, indeed.
 

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soxfanSJCA said:
Antimatter is ridiculously expensive to make, and it only lasts millionths of a second. There is also the obvious containment issues: electrons and positrons annihilate on contact.
 
Tom Brady knows this, which is why he probalby learned to stabilize the field with an inverted ground state Muonic pulse generator.
Also, the 275 GeV that the football pumped out would totally interfere with the Spider Cam, Defensive Signals, and most semiconductor based communications within ~45 miles of the stadium.   
 
You've been waiting all week, haven't you?
 

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soxfanSJCA said:
Antimatter is ridiculously expensive to make, and it only lasts millionths of a second. There is also the obvious containment issues: electrons and positrons annihilate on contact.
 
Tom Brady knows this, which is why he probalby learned to stabilize the field with an inverted ground state Muonic pulse generator.
Also, the 275 GeV that the football pumped out would totally interfere with the Spider Cam, Defensive Signals, and most semiconductor based communications within ~45 miles of the stadium.   
There is another problem in that there would be a sizable "event" if Gronk spiked a football with antimatter in it.
 
In short, it may have just been the external temperature.
You'll fit in well here, Padawan.
 

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soxfanSJCA said:
Antimatter is ridiculously expensive to make, and it only lasts millionths of a second. There is also the obvious containment issues: electrons and positrons annihilate on contact.
 
Tom Brady knows this, which is why he probalby learned to stabilize the field with an inverted ground state Muonic pulse generator.
Also, the 275 GeV that the football pumped out would totally interfere with the Spider Cam, Defensive Signals, and most semiconductor based communications within ~45 miles of the stadium.   
There is another problem in that there would be a sizable "event" if Gronk spiked a football with antimatter in it.
 
In short, it may have just been the external temperature.
 
Oh.my.god. Tears coming out of my eyes at this. Thanks.
 

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Harry Hooper said:
 
Found in one of Ernie's notebooks:
 
 
Watch the Peter King video, and you'll see the refs marking the balls with odd "signs". Might be on to something here.
 

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@SandoESPN parcells says walsh admitted cutting comm as "gamesmanship" in a game...imagine that in today with deflate gate being a story
If it's been mentioned already in this epic War and Peace of a thread, I apologize, but the Walsh/Parcells communications cutting thing came up in "A Football Life", the life of Bill Walsh on NFLN. It was about Walsh scripting the first 15 or so plays in a game and then managing to KO communications. 49ers didn't need comm because Montana knew the first 15 plays and just called them in the huddle. The Giants were, OTOH, SOL. The next time the 49ers played the Giants, Parcells said to Walsh before the game if you pull that shit again, I'm turning you in. So, Parcells and Walsh did the wink/wink thing while the Colts went straight to tattling. I highly recommend the new "A Football Life", about Bill Walsh.
 

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So, apparently there's a weird trial going on in Florida based on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's past conduct in which Alan Dershowitz is being directly accused of having sex with an underage girl on multiple occasions and Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are directly connect to Mr. Epstein, but I didn't hear about it till just now because it's somehow less important, salacious and intriguing than the psi of the Patriots's's footballs.
 

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Marciano490 said:
So, apparently there's a weird trial going on in Florida based on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's past conduct in which Alan Dershowitz is being directly accused of having sex with an underage girl on multiple occasions and Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are directly connect to Mr. Epstein, but I didn't hear about it till just now because it's somehow less important, salacious and intriguing than the psi of the Patriots's's footballs.
 
The Lolita Express
 
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the " Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
 

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This has now become my all-time favorite SoSH thread since 2001, when we parodied a Larry King USA Today column. Keep up the brilliance, gentleman, I feel as if I am sitting at the front row at the Sands watching the Rat Pack. A genuine tour de force by you all. Carry on.
 

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Marciano490 said:
So, apparently there's a weird trial going on in Florida based on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's past conduct in which Alan Dershowitz is being directly accused of having sex with an underage girl on multiple occasions and Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are directly connect to Mr. Epstein, but I didn't hear about it till just now because it's somehow less important, salacious and intriguing than the psi of the Patriots's's footballs.
 
Prince Andrew, too, no? 
 
Both stories are on the Daily Fail's website at the moment, but I'll let you guess which one is much farther up the page. 
 

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Crossing the Ballghazi & Lolita Express streams will bring the world to an end. Be careful out there folks.
 
As Doug Kyed RTd story on PFT: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/23/another-theory-for-deflating-footballs/
 
Which is the same "heat balls in sauna" theory that was here threads ago, and if indeed that was what was happening, then technically that is not breaking the rules no? 
 
They inflated the balls to proper PSI when giving them to the refs, in fact did not alter them in any way -- just inflating it in very high temperatures will not count as "altering" footballs -- no crime scene, no evidence, no smoking gun, and no snitches to turn. 
 
Also explains the supposedly very uniform -2 PSI readings on the game balls. 
 

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Yeah, but if they inflated the balls in high temperature, Brady should have known about it and talked about it in his press conference. No way the equipment folks did this on their own without his knowledge.
 

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This is where I am at. The NFL has enabled this circus.
 
It's made them a lot of money.
 
Remember last year, when the circus was around Richard Sherman's completely innocuous statements? Every idiot and douchebag in the counry had their hot take ready for that, too.
 

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Reggie's Racquet said:
Deflategate theory: What if Pats inflated balls in warm environment? From USA today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2015/01/23/deflategate-air-pressure-moist/22242609/
Good to see USA Today is up to speed with Monday's discussion.

This would be ingenious trolling of the league by Belichick and perfectly legal. Now that they've gone on record denying any involvement, this theory has about 0.1% chance of being true, and it never was much higher to begin with.
 

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Reggie's Racquet said:
Deflategate theory: What if Pats inflated balls in warm environment? From USA today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/patriots/2015/01/23/deflategate-air-pressure-moist/22242609/
You know that thought has crossed my mind in that what if part of Wells' responsibility here as a respected attorney is to investigate what happened fully and then advise the league on how to re-write the rule to close all loopholes.

Starting to think this is going to end up with everyone realizing that the organization took advantage of another gray area in the rules.
 

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So are those red under armor sandals in Brady's locker the current "like crocs but cooler" footwear? My dad's crocs are about dead.
 

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You know that thought has crossed my mind in that what if part of Wells' responsibility here as a respected attorney is to investigate what happened fully and then advise the league on how to re-write the rule to close all loopholes.

Starting to think this is going to end up with everyone realizing that the organization took advantage of another gray area in the rules.
I am reasonably confident that many other organizations/quarterbacks did similar things to their footballs and took advantage of the gray area as well. 
 

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I am reasonably confident that many other organizations/quarterbacks did similar things to their footballs and took advantage of the gray area as well. 
Oh I'm not saying they didn't. But as always, the Patriots did it so it's a huge deal.
 

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Tony Dungy backs waaaay off his statements about the legal-illegal substitutions thing:
 
 
https://twitter.com/TonyDungy/status/558854075719385088
My apologies to the Patriots and to the officials. In looking at the still picture LaFell is off far enough to be considered in backfield
 

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Tito's Pullover said:
I'm going to be disappointed if the next rumor that emerges doesn't involve the phrase "Dark Arts".
 
Unconfirmed photo of Brady in the locker room before the Colts game:
 

 
The real reason they drafted Brady was his 78 enchanting rating. 
 

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Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
Tony Dungy backs waaaay off his statements about the legal-illegal substitutions thing:
 
1. I HATE Dungy with a passion. Such a smug douche.

2. Maybe NBC is backtracking since it looks like the Patriots may be exonerated and the time for piling on is over.
 

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I'd say "If you're going to write an article on it, at least be sure its true", but this whole experiment has shown that's not the journalistic standard expected anymore
 

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Tito's Pullover said:
I'm going to be disappointed if the next rumor that emerges doesn't involve the phrase "Dark Arts".
 
If it does, which team will first accuse Belichick of being the reason they can never keep a good Defense Against the Dark Arts Coordinator for more than a year?  I'll take the chalk - Baltimore.
 

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Either the Patriots are guilty, in which case they should have simply fessed up Monday and claim that they learned it from Peyton and Eli and didn't really know the rule anyway, or they are not guilty and at this point they should be in full on attack mode. 
 
Why not systematically call out all of the haters? Call out the league for the stupidity of all of this and fundamentally call out the whole scandal for what it is: a bunch of loser hot air.
 
I would love to see Kraft go into a full court press with this but you know it is not happening.
 
I guess the best we are getting is the veiled knocks on the Colts for being focused on ball pressure.
 

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Dungy in full retreat.. How many people will see the retractions and only remember initial comments/remarks?
 
Tony Dungy ‏@TonyDungy 58m58 minutes ago Lake Magdalene, FL
Yesterday on ProFootballTalk I said I might tell players 2 fake injury versus Patriots substitutions. TOTALLY wrong on my part. I apologize!
 
No one will see the retractions. Everyone will remember the original remarks. We all know this.
 

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Either the Patriots are guilty, in which case they should have simply fessed up Monday and claim that they learned it from Peyton and Eli and didn't really know the rule anyway, or they are not guilty and at this point they should be in full on attack mode. 
 
Why not systematically call out all of the haters? Call out the league for the stupidity of all of this and fundamentally call out the whole scandal for what it is: a bunch of loser hot air.
 
I would love to see Kraft go into a full court press with this but you know it is not happening.
 
I guess the best we are getting is the veiled knocks on the Colts for being focused on ball pressure.
If you believe that BB didn't know what happened, then there is no reasonable expectation Kraft knows.  Kraft is much too smart to go into bluster mode only to later learn that Stinky the Second Assistant Ballboy thought he would do TB a favor for the Big Game.
 
Moreover, Kraft is a team guy, and the team he plays for is the NFL and it's merry band of billionaires.
 

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Mark Schofield said:
 
Unconfirmed photo of Brady in the locker room before the Colts game:
 

 
The real reason they drafted Brady was his 78 enchanting rating. 
 
 
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this Dunmer who knows this Khajiit who's going with the Orsimer who saw Brady use the Oghma Infinium cheat last night.
 
I guess it's pretty serious.