A question on deflated footballs.

[leftyladyfrommo]

I don't understand this stuff. Doesn't everyone play with the same ball? So if there is an advantage to playing with a deflated ball wouldn't that advantage be the same for everyone not just one team?

[MohRokTah]

1. Nope, each team provides a set of balls.

Their offense uses the team provided balls.

When the other team goes on offense, they switch to using that team's balls.

[Buzz Clik]

3. Actually, the officials provide properly inflated balls to each team immediately prior to the game.

The teams then control their game balls as described above.

In the Patriots/Colts game (and, apparently, others), the Pats "ball manager" dashed off to the restroom to deflate the balls in the very short time he had before receiving the balls and getting the balls to the field. The Colts made no such adjustment, so the Pats had underinflated balls while the Colts were playing with legal footballs.

And, the "ball manager" was doing this at Tom Brady's bidding.

[BillZBubb]

6. Wrong.

First, the Colts balls were also underinflated, just not as much as those of Patriots.

Second, there is NO proof it was done at Tom Brady's bidding. It may be the case, but there is no proof of that.

[NuclearDem]

14. The Colts balls were underinflated due to the weather.

The Patriots balls were underinflated due to the Patriots being cheating SOBs.

[seabeyond]

16. and again, what is evident and interesting.

totally clueless on your interest or take on a sporting event. and cheating.

yet, i find the people that clearly can recognize, oh..... racism, sexism, homophobia, social injustices, .... also, really have an issue with cheating. you know. simply call it what it is.

and those that meh... to the social injustices seeing cheating as just part of the game.

[Buzz Clik]

18. Ah, a Pat's fan.

Read the report, bubba. I am absolutely correct on all points.

Sorry, but this is a pain you'll need to live with.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. Oh. That makes more sense. Thank you n/t

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. Football is so confusing.

I don't understand why anyone plays it.

I would think that checking the footballs to be sure they are regulation would be a standard practice.

[Buzz Clik]

4. The Patriots have a history of sophisticated cheating.

They got busted again, and now they are really paying the price.

[BillZBubb]

8. Baloney. Every team has a history of some cheating.

The only specific "history" the Patriots have is "spygate".

[meaculpa2011]

13. I often used that excuse as a child...

I outgrew it at about 6 years old.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. When Nixon was called out for his perfidy he also pointed out his predecessors were perfidious...

When Nixon was called out for his perfidy he also pointed out his predecessors were perfidious too as is if all evil disappears with precedent.

[seabeyond]

15. then we should call them on it. we should call a sport team, competing with others, when they cheat

we really cannot do that?

we should call the athletes that murder, out

we should call the athletes that rape, out

we should call the athletes that beat women and children, out

ya think?

[AgingAmerican]

17. AND deflategate

nt

[Buzz Clik]

20. LOL! I won't spend one more second on this, but enjoy...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-england-patriots-scandals-from-spies-to-snowplows/

[BillZBubb]

12. It is actually a lot of fun to play. Not for everyone of course.

The footballs are checked by game officials before the start of the game. Each team has a representative given a bag of balls for his team to use during the game. That was the apparent problem here. The Patriots representative most likely secretly deflated the balls in his bag after the officials had checked them.

[caraher]

5. Some quarterbacks successfully lobbied for being able to choose their own balls

Including the QB just suspended, Tom Brady. Letting the offense select the ball to use is less than 10 years old. Your intuition about how it should work is surely correct!

[seabeyond]

9. each team has their own balls. they cheated. to accept that in a sporting event,

to justify, validate, excuse, .... is to further crumble a society that shrugs at fuckin integrity. the lack of, we see everywhere. effecting all our lives.

we must draw a line.

cheating is cheating. if you are a cheater, you absolutely get to wear the badge.

cheating:

cheat
CHēt/Submit
verb
gerund or present participle: cheating
1.
act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination.
"she always cheats at cards"
deceive or trick.
"he had cheated her out of everything she had"
synonyms: swindle, defraud, deceive, trick, scam, dupe, hoodwink, double-cross, gull; More
informal
be sexually unfaithful.
"his wife was cheating on him"
synonyms: commit adultery, be unfaithful, stray; More
2.
avoid (something undesirable) by luck or skill.
"she cheated death in a spectacular crash"
synonyms: avoid, escape, evade, elude; More

[seabeyond]

10. cheating. gerrymandering for house control. cheating. 2000 presidential election. nt

[AgingAmerican]

11. Each team supplies it's own balls

Minutes before the start of the game, the officials check out each ball to be used and make sure the pressure is within regulation range. Each ball is then marked after it has been tested and passed.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. Why don't both teams use the same balls?

Are they sheepish about touching some other guy's balls?