“More probable than not” Patriots manipulated balls.

Such a non story. Everyone who isn't a Patriots fan, knows that they are serial cheaters.
They won't take away this, or any of their super bowl wins, nothing changes.. Brady will always been seen as one of the best ever..

if you aren't cheating, you aren't trying. I'd be ok with the Titans doing a little cheating if it meant they could get a playoff win or two in the next 20 years.

The sport already has very little integrity.

 

It will be interesting to see how this affects Brady's legacy. The fact that he blatantly lied about it afterwards makes it even worse.

 

Here's a good comparison... Falcons were piping in fake crowd noise....

Pats deflating a little air.

Falcons suck so non story.

Pats win SB so large story.

Similar ways to work the system

 

how about the Saints monitoring the visitors lockerroom years ago....

 

It won't affect his legacy. After Spygate, he was known as a party to cheating, and he was still the 2nd biggest name in football behind Manning. Same old stuff here.

NFL doesn't have the balls to take away any wins, especially not AFC and super bowl championships, so.. any future punishment is completely inconsequential.

Only fans who hate the Patriots really care about this. The NFL will only be as "outraged" as the public is, as usual. and not even a Ray Rice+ Plaxico Burress+ Mike Vick+ Saints scandal, all rolled into one, would make the NFL strip the team of a Super Bowl..

And let's be honest, this is about deflating balls. This is NBFD to anyone other than people who like to bellyache about the Pats success. Pats are one of probably a dozen or more teams who pull this stunt.

 

So if you try to cheat and fail it's totally cool if you say "my bad" but if you succeed and try to lie... Big difference.

Meh. I think the pats are one of MANY working the balls how they want them. (League majority)

The Falcons probably the only team piping in noise.