mykepm
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Post by mykepm on Feb 1, 2015 13:04:23 GMT -5
What's the common thread with these stories that were reported today - on Super Bowl Sunday (hints in parenthesis):
1. The Falcons will likely be penalized for generating artificial crowd noise while the visiting team was on offense (See, teams other than the Pats cheat too!)
2. The Jets are very interested in signing Revis if he becomes a free agent (So, Woody Johnson really was tampering with a Patriots player! Throw the book at the Jets!)
3. Only one of the Patriots' AFC Championship Game Balls was significantly deflated (Then it really was just natural causes. The Patriots are innocent! And the guy who disappeared with the game balls was just an old man who couldn't control his bladder.)
i guess Goodell will be apologizing to Kraft right after he hands him the Lombardi Trophy later today. I'm going to be sick.
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Post by afceastfan on Feb 1, 2015 13:14:12 GMT -5
If that is really the narrative the league is trying to spin here, why bother getting everyone worked up into a lather in the first place? Why not just bury the deflated football story next to the ashes of the burned Spygate tapes the day after the Colts game?
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Post by jdeacon on Feb 1, 2015 13:23:43 GMT -5
If that is really the narrative the league is trying to spin here, why bother getting everyone worked up into a lather in the first place? Why not just bury the deflated football story next to the ashes of the burned Spygate tapes the day after the Colts game? Hindsight is 20/20. Goodell has already proven he is incapable of handling the league in pressure situations why is this one any different.
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mykepm
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Post by mykepm on Feb 1, 2015 13:28:33 GMT -5
If that is really the narrative the league is trying to spin here, why bother getting everyone worked up into a lather in the first place? Why not just bury the deflated football story next to the ashes of the burned Spygate tapes the day after the Colts game? You answered your own question. "Everyone worked up into a lather" = hype = ratings = $. Is that really a stretch? The NFL probably didn't expect this story to blow up like it has (who did?), but once it happened, why not take advantage of it? |
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Post by rexneffect on Feb 1, 2015 15:27:02 GMT -5
The NFL is racing to blur the story on deflategate just in time for the super bowl. No surprise.
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Post by astoria on Feb 1, 2015 15:33:28 GMT -5
Another story from today, about how the league is gathering a team of Very Serious Scientists to run deflation tests. This team is Super Credentialed and Super Serious so if the NFL tells us in two weeks that these scientists did not find any conclusive evidence, who are we to question the Brilliant Scientists? I'm not even sure we need oversight and peer review on their research, let's just trust them, because nobody else understands science, right?
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Post by astoria on Feb 1, 2015 15:39:46 GMT -5
The media narrative has already shifted. Instead of what should be an investigation of the past 7 years of Patriots saggy footballs, the focus has become lasered in on the Colts game, to which casual followers of the scandal are assuming means it's Not A Big Deal.
The only way to get the deflation subject viewed again seriously in the mainstream is if the Flats really get reamed tonight, then people will naturally assume the team is incompetent with regular footballs. If the Flats win, I doubt they even get punished by the league at all. Goodell does NOT want to sully the Super Bowl winner*.
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Post by Slackjaw on Feb 1, 2015 15:53:20 GMT -5
The fans are not stoopid.
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Post by jetstream23 on Feb 2, 2015 0:45:59 GMT -5
The fans are not stoopid. Link? |
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Post by frostlich on Feb 2, 2015 11:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by Fishooked on Feb 2, 2015 13:05:18 GMT -5
The NFL is racing to blur the story on deflategate just in time for the super bowl. No surprise. I think Seattle's horrible playcalling is doing a pretty good job of occupying the news cycle at the moment |
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