godfather
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If a team provides their own footballs, then why does it matter if it is underinflated or overinflated? Why is this even a rule? Guys can put a bunch of gunk on their hands and use gloves that stick like Spiderman but slightly deflating the ball to make it easier to catch is anathema? Also this whole issue is funny because some players, including Aaron Rodgers, prefer it overinflated. Which is it?
Frankly if it turns out to be true then I can understand a fine. Folks wanting suspensions though are absurd. This sounds like more of a psychological edge than anything.
I think he should be suspended because he's a repeated offender. I don't think it had any outcome on the game, but integrity has to count for something, still.
I still blame the NFL, why in the WORLD are teams allowed to bring their own footballs to the game? I honestly didn't even know that, and to me, it's not a real stunner a team tried to take advantage of this.
I think its a little silly personally, but still if its a known rule, and they broke it, they should be/Belichick, penalized. But nothing drastic like DQ from the Super Bowl, like some people want.
Colts fans want that, obviously, but they deserved to lose either way, because they clearly stunk it up, and it had nothing to do with a deflated football.