Boston Media Now Accusing Colts of Deflating Intercepted Ball That Kicked Off Deflate Gate

In a way this is awesome,but at the same time it is absolutely ridiculous. Awesome, because it is a heck of a twist to the story that will make the rivalry between the two teams only grow a little deeper in the coming years. At the same time it is absolutely ridiculous, because the accusation is almost as stupid as the fact that Deflate Gate has become such a big deal.

According to some in the Boston media, the Colts deflated the ball D'Qwell Jackson intercepted before turning it in in with the sole purpose of creating a scandal and embarrassing the heck out of the Patriots.

via Bleacher Report

Because who doesn't want to be tied to a stupid and ridiculous scandal?

The logic is so biased and flawed it is funny. The first thing they offer up as evidence is that since Robert Kraft said no one on the team did anything wrong then no one did anything wrong:

"...a person of Kraft’s stature does not speak with such certainty unless he knows that the league has nothing. The stakes would be too high to make such statements if evidence found at a later date might prove them to be liars."

You know, because rich, business men never lie.

They went on to use the variation in reports about the tested balls as proof. Since the latest report says that only one ball was two pounds under the limit and the others were only a little but under that the Colts must have used a needle on the sideline to take air out of the ball before reporting it.

"It was the football that was taken to the Colts sideline and then submitted to the NFL to launch an investigation. You’re going to tell me that the Colts didn’t manipulate that football before submitting it? The team that fired off the accusations of cheating didn’t take an extra step or two to make sure they were right by sticking a needle in that football and letting it drain for a few seconds before handing it over to the league and saying, “Hey, the Patriots are using underinflated footballs, so you need to investigate”?

Yeah, well, no. They did that. They did exactly that."

Wow. Talk about grasping at straws. What this guy is forgetting is that the Colts do not have a history of cheating while the Patriots do. That's why the story stuck with the media the last two weeks, Since they've done it once what's to say they will not do it again?

Nothing. To be fair there is nothing that says they did either.

The wild jumps in logic are pretty entertaining and make for an interesting and entertaining read. It's worth a look the next time you go to the bathroom.

[CBSLocal]

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