VJ_Messiah

The NFL stated they have interviewed 40 people concerning this incident. Bob Kraft issued a statement saying that the league spent 3 days in Foxboro and that he instructed all employees to be transparent and cooperate fully. That's a lot of people, and as of yesterday Brady wasn't one of them.

I don't see this going anywhere. The most that will come out of it imo is that QB's stop tweaking the balls.

Why is the news stirring the racial pot lately? Look at the title.

Yes, the pants should be sued down to the ankles.

It gets them hits. There's a chance there was some profiling going they might not be too far off the mark.

I would sue the pants off them If I was that guy unless Walmart has specific rules about concealed and carry. No idea if the do, but if they don't he should be hunting down a lawyer imo.

That was pretty good. : )

After spending a few days in London and scoping the scene I would probably choose a mailbox myself.

There will be plenty of bulletin board material with this latest scandal. A few former Pats players have been on local radio saying that Belichick will use this to the teams advantage in preparing for the Super Bowl.

Belichick is as crafty as they come imo. Belichick vs Carroll ... man this is going to be a good one for sure but I have to give Bellichick the edge ... he's been there more often.

One of my peeps inside the Pats organization just sent me this video of Bill Belichik and the Pats ball boy after yesterdays press conference.

That's a dumb statement. He's the best tight end in the game today.

Agreed. Gronk is the best in the business, and Lane did nothing other than give the Pats locker room material. Even dumber is Lane isn't even the guy who's going to be covering Gronk. It will be the safeties .. Chancellor and Thomas.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/seahawks-corner-says-rob-gronkowski-isn-t-that-good-153545415.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-23/germany-warns-of-last-chance-for-ukraine-peace-amid-fighting.html

Germany warned that time is running out to halt spiraling violence in eastern Ukraine as it called on Russia and the government in Kiev to stand by pledges to bring the crisis to an end.

Ukraine and Russia must seize “what may be the last chance for a peaceful solution” by fulfilling commitments to secure a cease-fire and withdraw heavy weaponry, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an e-mailed statement late Thursday. They must “do everything to ensure the spiral of violence and counter-violence is stopped,” he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukrainian forces of starting “large-scale” military operations against the rebels in comments broadcast on state television. Defense Ministry officials in Ukraine reported more than 100 attacks by pro-Russian separatists in the past 24 hours.

While the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France reported “tangible progress” in Berlin talks Wednesday, fighting continues between government troops and separatists. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned in a Bloomberg Television interview of a “grave danger” of escalation in the 10-month conflict that has claimed more than 5,000 lives, according to the United Nations.

Heavy Weapons

Ukraine and its allies in the U.S. and the European Union blame Russia for arming and aiding the rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, while Russia accuses the government in Kiev of a military onslaught against its own citizens. The conflict has sent Russia-U.S. ties to their worst since the Cold War.

Ukrainian forces are shelling densely populated areas indiscriminately, causing dozens of civilian casualties, Putin told a meeting of the Security Council Friday, according to a Kremlin transcript. Russia received no clear answer to its proposal for heavy weapons to be pulled out of eastern Ukraine, he said.

Putin led officials in a minute’s silence for victims of a mortar attack Thursday that killed eight people and wounded seven at a bus stop in Donetsk. The conflict can only be resolved through negotiation and he hoped “common sense” will prevail, he said.

‘Eliminate’ Threat

Alexander Zakharchenko, separatist leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, ruled out truce talks with Kiev, saying rebel forces will “advance to the borders of the Donetsk region” and “eliminate” any threat they find, Interfax news service reported Friday. He said he will only talk to Poroshenko and saw no point in negotiating with the Ukraine contact group, according to Interfax.

It is “critically important” for the contact group to meet rebel leaders because they signed a cease-fire deal agreed in Minsk, Belarus, in September, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview Friday in Davos, Switzerland.

The group, which includes representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the separatists, should meet this week to discuss a line of contact, withdrawal of forces, prisoner exchanges and humanitarian issues, Klimkin said. Russia refused to discuss implementing the Minsk accord in Berlin, he said.

‘Horrifying Events’

There’s no quick political solution to the Ukraine crisis, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told a forum in Davos Friday. Pressuring Russia with sanctions won’t help resolve the conflict, VTB Group Chairman Andrey Kostin said at the same event.

Steinmeier said “unscrupulous groups” on both sides are intent on thwarting peace efforts and he expressed shock at the “horrifying events” in Donetsk.

Three servicemen died and 50 were wounded in the past 24 hours, while rebels hold more than 600 prisoners, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters in Kiev Friday. Ukrainian troops faced 115 rebel attacks in the same period, military spokesman Leonid Matyukhin said Friday in Kiev.

Rebels may be using banned gas in attacks on government forces, Lysenko said. Russia has 9,000 troops inside Ukraine, the highest number since the conflict began, and is sending 30 to 40 vehicles with weapons across the border daily, he said.

Russia on Tuesday dismissed the notion its soldiers are involved as “absolute nonsense.”

‘Major Escalation’

Ten servicemen died as government forces pulled back from the Donetsk airport, an epicenter of clashes, the military said Thursday, the Ukraine’s army’s worst casualties in two weeks. The army said it still controls parts of the facility, where fighting continues.

Rebel threats to advance to the border of Donetsk region represent a “major escalation,” Tim Ash, chief economist for emerging markets at Standard Bank Group Ltd. in London, said in e-mailed comments Friday. “We are rapidly approaching a full-scale war now in Ukraine.”

Meanwhile, Putin spoke with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde by phone Thursday about international cooperation on Ukraine’s “severe economic and financial crisis,” according to a Kremlin statement. They discussed the International Monetary Fund’s “possible steps” in response to Ukraine’s request for a new long-term loan program, it said.

IMF Funding

Ukraine hopes to receive the first installment of money under the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility program by the end of February or early March, Interfax reported, citing Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko in Davos. Ukrainian 2017 dollar debt gained 0.6 cents to 54.7 cents on the dollar, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

The Ukrainian government will approach bondholders to negotiate more favorable terms after talks with the IMF over aid to top up a $17 billion rescue, Jaresko said Wednesday in an interview in Davos.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused Russia of undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty and breaching the principles of post-World War II European order by annexing Crimea. Russia’s absorption of the peninsula in March can’t be allowed to pass and sanctions should remain, she said in Davos Thursday.

Merkel held out an olive branch to Putin, saying she was ready to look at EU cooperation with the new Russian-led Eurasian Union. “The condition is that we have a cease-fire, that there’s a return to control of the Russian-Ukrainian border,” she said.

Merkel remains open to resuming suspended talks on EU-Russia trade links once the Ukraine crisis is resolved, German government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz told reporters in Berlin Friday.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/22/ex-players-react-bradys-cluelessness-unbelievable/

Ex-players react: Brady's cluelessness 'unbelievable'

http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/rice-sees-asterisk-next-patriots-if-they-win-super-bowl

Jerry Rice sees asterisk next Patriots if they win Super Bowl

http://finance.yahoo.com/video/brady-knows-properly-inflated-football-215000567.html

Fran Tarkenton, former NFL quarterback, reacts to comments by the New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady on the deflation of balls.

Did the temperature drop a lot that weekend? Pressure does drop in balls when it's cold, just like it does with car tires. If they are inflating them to the minimum level and it cools off, they will end up below regulation just due to temperature change. The Patriots aren't going to get the benefit of the doubt but that's a plausible explanation.

McDaniels taped the 49'ers walk through practice in London in 2009. The Bronco's were on the way to a 4-12 season. Completely pointless endeavor, and almost seemed compulsive which is why I wouldn't be surprised to see his name come up here.

11 of the 12 Pats footballs were found to be under inflated and 0 of the 12 Colts footballs were not found to be under inflated. Each team gets 12 footballs and they are inspected before the game. Someone let the air out of the Pats balls and even though the Pats still would have won the game without deflated balls, rules were broken and yes an under inflated football is a big advantage for a QB in cold and / or wet weather.

You've got me thinking about so many people I met in the past. Mosi Tatupu used to go to that bar too. His son Lofa married a local painters daughter. Tim was buddies with Mosi and there was also Todd Collins, a linebacker nicknamed Swampfox. I still have a Patriots jacket that a few of those signed for me. To be twenty years younger again......

I remember watching Collins play and Tatupu is a household name as well.

Isn't Carl Smith with Seattle now? He was the tight ends coach when he was here and Boudreau was the offensive line coach. Fred Smerlas used to play for the Bills, then he was on local radio and tv. John Hannah used to hang at this place too.

And Raymond Berry went to the coffee shop I used to go to. These were low key places that the guys liked because people didn't bother them.

Smith is the QB coach at Seattle. Man spooks those are some heavy hitters you mixed with.

Pete, Paul Boudreau and Carl Smith used to go to a local bar/restaurant that I also went too. They were cool guys. Lots of Patriots players went there years back. I got to be good friends with Tim Goad our nose tackle. We used to go bass fishing together. Steve Nelson, Fred Smerlas and a bunch of guys used to pop in from time to time.

Smerlas .. that's a name that pops out. I'm hoping Carroll sticks around long enough for a fourpeat.

Carroll was a cool guy. I had a few beers with him and Paul Boudreau when he was the coach here.

You talked to Pete Carroll? I would give my left nut to sit down and chat with that guy. He's nothing short of a football genius .. at least on the defensive side of the ball.

Books don't care, as long as the money evens out. The line moving back and forth just follows the money. The books will get their 10%.

I screwed up royally. I took the Hawks for a C-note right after the AFC game when the line was -2.5 for the Hawks. If I had waited until the next day I could have swung that 5 points.

There are some that suggested, at the time, we should have allied with the Fascists first, to get rid of the Commies, instead of the other way around. With 20-20 backward vision, some could surmise that in the post WWII era, that the US did back some of the world's most notorious Fascist regimes in order to combat the spread of Communism. Funny how that works.

The Roosevelt administration was riddled with commie spies. If the US had listened to Patton they would have given Stalin an ultimatum right after Hitler offed himself. Make Stalin pull back east of Belarus and give back the land he stole from Finland. If not the US could have nuked Moscow like they did with Japan. Then the US could have ... should have annexed every square inch of Russian soil from the Pacific to the Urals. That would have put Russia at it's original boundaries.

amazing as in amazing what an ideology in the wrong hands can accomplish. three for 60+ million.

The problem was three psychopaths took control .. I blame that on the Bolsheviks (Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky). Stalin helped set up Mao in power and Moa helped set up Pol Pot. Too bad they couldn't have just settled for a Sweden style socialism.

Irish make the best bombs - everybody know that.

They also come up aces when it comes to fixing games. The line on this Super Bowl has already moved from - 2.5 to + 2.5 and now it's back to -1. You know Vegas has to be going nuts right about now.

I watched it on local tv. He chose 24 balls before the game, why does ESPN only mention 12, and why hasn't the league contacted Brady? My take on it, they Patriots supplied under inflated balls for inspection and the official never checked the pressure. The balls weren't altered after inspection. Read Aaron Rodgers preference for overs inflated balls and that he gets upset if the official let's air out. It sounds like a game of chance if they check or not, it's not a scientific inspection where the balls are measured and weighed. Sometimes they check the air pressure, sometimes they don't. That still doesn't justify it, but IMO that's a real possibility.

Boston Mafia. Irish at that.

three people, 60+ million deaths. amazing, really.

Mao was good for 40 million deaths, Stalin 18 - 22 million and Pol Pot 8.5 million.

At least one of those countries was an ally at the time a good portion if not most of those "murders" were committed during WWII.

Kennedy was a loose cannon. His actions directly led to the Cuban missile crisis and despite being admonished by Eisenhower to stay the hell out of Southeast Asia, Kennedy helped to bolster a corrupt regime that was doing good share of its own killing. These courses of events are at least partially responsible for many of the "murders" you are talking about.

No one else got busted for filming. All teams did it prior to 2007. The league sent out a memo at the beginning of the 2007 season that it was not permitted. The Patriots ignored the directive and were caught in the first game of the season against the Jets. They won all 16 regular seasons games and 2 playoff games that year, losing to the GIants in the Super Bowl. They did much better by not cheating.

Did you see Brady's interview just now?

If Belichick cheating makes the entire Pats organization cheaters, the same goes for USC and Carroll. The Patriots got hung out to dry doing something that every other team was doing. See how that works?

Of course that's not what I think, I think that Belichick's punishment was deserved. And if he's behind this latest incident, I think he should be suspended.

One question comes to mind after watching Brady's press conference. He said he picked 24 balls before the game, why do they keep referring to 12? Actually 2 questions. The league has not talked to him about this yet. Why? I find that a bit odd.

Who else got busted for filming opposing NFL teams?

http://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/la-sp-usc-ncaa-mcnair-20140609-story.html

Ex-USC assistant Todd McNair seeks vindication from Reggie Bush saga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dee <--- read that one

Christians have mastered quite a death toll over the centuries. What hostility towards Christians does that warrant?

Meanwhile back on earth .... In the past hundred years... that's 100 years, not 500 years, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot have accounted for 60+ million deaths.