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Originally Posted by StatenEye 535i
Truly the NFL has become a joke. Not sure if it's any better then WWE in regards to an actual fair competition at this point. What the Pats did here was criminal and someone should do jail time. Tons of money is at stake on these games, in Vegas, sales and in advertising. NE has manipulated the games and changed the outcome of many matches through illegal means. Many people paid for themselves and their families to attend Patriot games which were effected by cheating. Times like this makes me wish the NFL had a 2nd and 3rd division to relegate teams to - obviously you cant do that in a salary cap league but it would be nice. Spy-gate and deflate-gate show that Bill and Tom have no respect for the league... why have they not received lifetime bans? If they cheated in in these two ways they were caught on.. they must be cheating in other ways also, no? How is what they done not worse than what Pete Rose did in baseball? As a former NCAA D1 athlete I would be deeply disgusted if my team were to cheat to win a match and i'm not sure I can live with losing a NCAA tournament match and later finding out the team we lost to cheated.
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Red:
What would be the charge? Unethical, yes. Criminal? I don't think so, or more accurately, I haven't seen evidence that supports that claim.
Blue:
No. In spite of however theoretically plausible it might be that the parties involved have cheated in other ways, that they have/do in isn't a logical conclusion one can draw for the fact that they cheated re: ball inflation. I'm certainly willing to reprimand them and decry specific act(s) of cheating of which I'm aware, but I'm also willing to be fair, even to those whom I can plainly see don't play fair. That's part of what makes my character better than theirs, and I'm about to become one of their ilk by being unfair, even to they who probably don't deserve my equanimity. You can if you want, but I will not.
All the best.