#DFG: Canceling the Noise

[bluefenderstrat]

Ball boy goes back, and to the left!

 

[MarcSullivaFan]

I just hope for this guy's sake he didn't stop to rub one out in the broom closet.

 

[Marciano490]

I'm starting to really hate the NFL.  Fuck this Pravda shit.  There's other things to gamble on and other ways to enjoy my Sundays.  I'm going to like read books and go outside and talk to people from now on.  Right after the Super Bowl.

 

[NWsoxophile]

It's time for Kraft to initiate the dc missile plan.

 

[Salem's Lot]

There's a piece of me that wonders whether the NFL won't be satisfied until either Brady or Belichick is suspended for the Super Bowl.

 
There's a large portion of the NFL and the media that won't be satisfied until Belichick is gone from the league.

 

[MarcSullivaFan]

Glazer left out the part about how long the ballboy was in the room. Wonder why.

I doubt Glazer chose to leave it out. He's a pretty straight shooter.

 

[njnesportsfan]

 
A thousand times this.
 
IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS COMING YOU JUST WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION.
 
Someone was always going to point a finger at the only Pats employee who had the balls inbetween them leaving the refs supervision and making their way to the field (and therefor the cameras).  
 
Since they have found NOTHING on video and the refs can't possibly be to blame this was the ONLY POSSIBLE person to blame.

However, that person could sue the hell out of NFL if the leagues tries to blame on him, since he didn't do anything. 

 

[nolasoxfan]

 
You should know

Claps enthusiastically.

 

[JayMags71]

Interesting. Rouge Ball boy?

I'm thinking more burnt sienna or raw umber.

 

[Hoya81]

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/559814692936237057

Neil Degrasse Tyson weighing in.

 

[Ed Hillel]

I doubt Glazer chose to leave it out. He's a pretty straight shooter.

Ok, source then.

 

[lexrageorge]

There's a piece of me that wonders whether the NFL won't be satisfied until either Brady or Belichick is suspended for the Super Bowl.

In which case the NFL is never going to be satisfied.  
 
Any attempt to suspend Brady without even interviewing him will be immediately appealed by the NFLPA and overturned with 99% certainty.
 
Any attempt to suspend Belichick will likely cause Kraft to go nuclear.  
 
The fact that the NFL refuses to acknowledge anything proves that this is nothing more than a witch hunt.  

 

[DJnVa]

Glazer yesterday said it was a sting, no?

 

[Corsi]

 
You should know

 
brilliant

 

[wiffleballhero]

8 days out, I call bullshit on this leak being anything. 

 

[lexrageorge]

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/559814692936237057

Neil Degrasse Tyson weighing in.

Did someone remind him that 1 psi is less than 15%?

 

[Rusty13]

 
Neil Degrasse Tyson weighing in.

 
LOL. 

 

[rodderick]

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/559814692936237057

Neil Degrasse Tyson weighing in.

I wonder why the only people that disagree with Belichick's findings are the ones who haven't done the experiments themselves.

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Seems highly probably that in a hissy fit, the league scoured all their "evidence" for anything "suspicious" with which to feed the beast and settled on the last thing they "have"--a ballboy bizarrely not setting a 100 meter world record.

 

[blueguitar322]

This is serious stuff.  We've now moved beyond exposing the media for their ignorance and have established that Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson are also perhaps idiots as well.

 

[amarshal2]

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/559814692936237057

Neil Degrasse Tyson weighing in.

 

For the Patriots to blame a change in temperature for 15% lower-pressures, requires balls to be inflated with 125-degree air.

 
Anyone smarter than me know what the eff he's talking about?
 
edit: I'm guessing you can't because he doesn't explain any of his assumptions...such as the ending temp.

 

[GregHarris]

Breaking News:  Patriot's ball boy was seen swapping out footballs during Rams walkthrough video prior to SB36.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

I find it amazing that SumnerH doesn't know who this ball boy is.

 

[scotian1]

It's a red herring, I can't imagine either Bill or Tom saying what they said without checking with the ball person.

 

[Hoya81]

If I'm the Pats, I release all the security video.

 

[njnesportsfan]

When the Pats win on Sunday, how will Roger present the trophy? 

 

[djbayko]

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/559814692936237057

Neil Degrasse Tyson weighing in.

 
Ugh!  I love NDT and was hoping he would chime in with real science.  Unfortunately, he isn't exactly up to speed with the situation.  He obviously didn't listen to Saturday's press conference.  Also, I believe 15% is the difference if using gauge pressure.

 

[Leather]

This has really, REALLY, gone on long enough.  

 

[DJnVa]

Thanks NFL for fucking up Super Bowl week. At this point, even if the Pats cheated they fucking need to drop every single dime they have. Fuck everyone. Win the game then fold the fucking franchise and tell Goodell to fuck off.
 
It's 6 days before the Super Bowl and I can't go to a single website without this shit popping up.

 

[Leather]

Thanks NFL for fucking up Super Bowl week. At this point, even if the Pats cheated they fucking need to drop every single dime they have. Fuck everyone.
 
It's 6 days before the Super Bowl and I can't go to a single website without this shit popping up.

 
It's horrible.  It's less enjoyable than the week(s) leading up to last year's Superbowl, which was supposed to be Peyton's coronation.

 

[Two Youks]

 
Ugh!  I love NDT and was hoping he would chime in with real science.  Unfortunately, he isn't exactly up to speed with the situation.  He obviously didn't listen to Saturday's press conference.  Also, I believe 15% is the difference if using gauge pressure.

 
Can someone add the differences between gauge pressure and whatever else is going on to the OP?  And maybe a link to the YouTube vid with the experiment?  That's just as helpful as a recap of what started the whole mess, IMO.

 

[j44thor]

Perhaps someone from the Colts was illegally taping the Pats equipment room...

 

[Ferm Sheller]

Thanks NFL for fucking up Super Bowl week. At this point, even if the Pats cheated they fucking need to drop every single dime they have. Fuck everyone. Win the game then fold the fucking franchise and tell Goodell to fuck off.
 
It's 6 days before the Super Bowl and I can't go to a single website without this shit popping up.

 
Who are the SB sponsors?  Let's pledge to boycott their products.

 

[Corsi]

MarkMaske ‏@MarkMaske  12m12 minutes ago
NFL is declining to comment on @JayGlazer report about focus of its investigation being Patriots locker room attendant.

 

[CrouchingTonyHiddenPena]

 
The NFL has zeroed in on a New England Patriots locker room attendant who allegedly took the AFC Championship Game balls from the officials' locker room to another area on the way to the field, Fox Sports reported, citing sources.

 

According to Fox Sports, the league has interviewed him and has video.
 
The league is still gauging if any wrongdoing occurred, but he is a strong person of interest, according to the report.

 
http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/12232207/nfl-looking-new-england-patriots-locker-room-attendant-deflategate-investigation

 

[denilson3]

The league office is openly working to smear the Patriots.

New Yorker Neil Degrasse Tyson with impeccably orchestrated timing, working, I assume, from potentially false 2 psi numbers.

 

[Peak Oil Can Boyd]

If there's video of the ball boy disappearing for even more than 30 seconds, it's over.  It doesn't matter if there's not evidence of actual tempering or that the science could have played out innocently.  Given the narrative that's already happened, no one would believe he didn't mess with the balls.  And no one would believe that Brady didn't tell him to.  

 

[Dewy4PrezII]

They should definitely erase that tape.

It's okay, they smashed the video recorder as well as the ball attendant's cell phone, but apparently he sent a text to his sister alerting her that he was "going to deflate the balls for NFL"  He followed up that text with another that read "just so you know"

 

[Tito's Pullover]

The largest pressure drop number we have seen reported is 2 PSI.  A drop from 13 PSI to 11 PSI is actually an 8% drop in pressure, since the absolute pressures are 27.7 -> 25.7 PSI.
 
So basically NdGT confused gauge pressure and absolute pressure, like a few of SoSH posters who aren't fucking astrophysicists did upthread.  That's rookie level shit.
 
Somewhere, Carl Sagan weeps.

 

[Van Everyman]

Of course, if he DID take a piss, there would be no cameras, which would mean....nothing and everything.

Boy is the NFL gonna be pissed when they find out that Chuck Berry installed the security video cameras at Gillette.

 

[Harry Hooper]

Once again Glazer gets a leak out of NFL HQ designed to inflict maximum damage on the Pats. These folks need to be flushed out of there, Mr. Kraft.

 

[Stitch01]

If there's video of the ball boy disappearing for even more than 30 seconds, it's over.  It doesn't matter if there's not evidence of actual tempering or that the science could have played out innocently.  Given the narrative that's already happened, no one would believe he didn't mess with the balls.  And no one would believe that Brady didn't tell him to.  

lol boo hoo rest of NFL

 

[djbayko]

If I'm the Pats, I release all the security video.

 
It has been reported that they did this during the NFL visit last week.  This is probably how they know about the locker room attendant pit stop in the first place.

 

[The Big Red Kahuna]

 
It has been reported that they did this during the NFL visit last week.  This is probably how they know about the locker room attendant pit stop in the first place.

 
He meant to the public... 

 

[Stitch01]

Once again Glazer gets a leak out of NFL HQ designed to inflict maximum damage on the Pats. These folks need to be flushed out of there, Mr. Kraft.

Mr Kraft's move, if he has the checkbook willingness and stomach to do it, is to tell Rog that media talk/access is done for the week.
 
Or, barring that, have every player and every coach answer every question with 'we're focused on Seattle.  Looking forward to a tough challenge" regardless of subject or question.

 

[yecul]

This definitely explains why only 11 of the 12 balls were low. He only had enough time to deflate those balls without raising suspicion. 

 

[Ferm Sheller]

No more Budweiser or Pepsi for me...
 
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/anheuser-busch-super-bowl-s-top-sponsor-155412

 

[Steve Dillard]

OMG! A BALL Attendant was seen with the BALLS. WTF! He was supposed to be attending to the BALLS.

The dog that didn't bark.
They NFL interrogated the ball boy
Do you think the leak might be different if they found something?

 

[DJnVa]

This definitely explains why only 11 of the 12 balls were low. He only had enough time to deflate those balls without raising suspicion. 

 
Well, yesterday there were some tweets walking back the "11 of 12" meme as well.
 
 

 

[TFP]

No more Budweiser or Pepsi for me...
 
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/anheuser-busch-super-bowl-s-top-sponsor-155412

That's probably a good move regardless.