Ed Hillel said:Kensil personally measured the footballs at halftime? Is that at all appropriate?
That's a good question
Ed Hillel said:Kensil personally measured the footballs at halftime? Is that at all appropriate?
PedroKsBambino said:Just to be clear, based on the wording of the article, only one source commented on the ball. The other three only confirmed that he works for the Patriots.
A source told Outside the Lines that Kensil decided to personally go down to the officials' locker room at halftime of the Patriots-Colts game to check the game balls, in part, because of the suspicions McNally's actions raised.
Kensil did not respond to requests for comment but it has also been reported that the Colts noticed an underinflated football after an interception by linebacker D'Qwell Jackson. Jackson said at the Pro Bowl that he didn't notice that the football was underinflated. Also, Troy Vincent, the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, told "60 Minutes Sports" that Colts General Manager Ryan Grigson told league officials in the second quarter of the AFC Championship Game that the Patriots might be tampering with footballs.
One source said Kensil personally checked the PSI (pounds per square inch) levels of all 12 footballs the Patriots had for use on offense and found that 11 of those 12 were under-inflated by "one to two pounds." They were reinflated to the league-required level and were returned for use in the second half.
theapportioner said:So is this incident the same as the one we saw at the 2nd half kickoff, where there was a brief delay of game, or is it a separate one?
Impressive bait and switch. Are you a car salesman?Bone Chips said:Yeah, if you want to call if suppression of fandom, whatever. After a car full of fans lobbed a glass beer bottle at me and my 9 year old son a few years ago in Philly I decided that discretion was probably the better part of valor - at least when he's around me.
SemperFidelisSox said:The headline and article is phrased in a way that suggests malice. "Patriots employee tried to sneak fake football into game!!!" This guy forgot to check the football for the K marking. Sounds like an honest mistake.
The alternate official, Greg Yette, became suspicious when he noticed that the football McNally handed him did not have the proper markings on it, three sources said. One of those sources added that Yette found it surprising that the officials' locker room attendant was on the field, trying to hand him a ball, because officials' locker room attendants don't typically have ball-handling responsibilities during NFL games. Once McNally tried to introduce the unapproved football into the game, the source said, Yette notified the NFL's vice president of game operations, Mike Kensil, who was at the game in the press box.
jsinger121 said:Has Bob Kravitz or Gregg Doyle commented yet?
They're too busy trying to cover up the fact that the Colts are trying to get out of a contract because a player took his pregnant girlfriend to the hospital.jsinger121 said:Has Bob Kravitz or Gregg Doyle commented yet?
I will name my next child after the first person to put that pear in a cut-off hoodie holding the Lombardi.Devizier said:
shawnrbu said:
No, but CHB was ecstatic on Sports Tonight a few minutes ago. Called this story a "smoking gun" and the "Krafts can't say the league has nothing on them now."
koufax32 said:I will name my next child after the first person to put that pear in a cut-off hoodie holding the Lombardi.
ESPN maybe, but it's Tom Brady week on NFLN.soxhop411 said:Well now I know to avoid all ESPN and NFLN programming for another month.
koufax32 said:I will name my next child after the first person to put that pear in a cut-off hoodie holding the Lombardi.
Kenny F'ing Powers said:Don't care. I hope we cheated every game this past season.
Suck my SuperBalls.
shawnrbu said:
No, but CHB was ecstatic on Sports Tonight a few minutes ago. Called this story a "smoking gun" and the "Krafts can't say the league has nothing on them now."
Hendu for Kutch said:Sweet, I like how we get to start this shitshow up all over again over something that doesn't have anything to do with the original accusation.
So is the story now that we're deflating balls or that we're swapping in unapproved ones? Would seem to be an either/or thing and that doing both would negate the advantage of doing either, but to hell with logic.
Infield Infidel said:
Next thing you know, the Colts are going to accuse the Patriots of moving the goal posts.
One of those sources added that Yette found it surprising that the officials' locker room attendant was on the field, trying to hand him a ball, because officials' locker room attendants don't typically have ball-handling responsibilities during NFL games.
Bone Chips said:I think the key point here is this one...
or, a NE patriot locker-room attendant mistakenly handed a kicking ball to an official...A locker-room attendant for the New England Patriots tried to introduce an unapproved special teams football into last month's AFC Championship Game,