Time to Deflate DeflateGate

Let’s start with the fact that I am a Dolphins fan and would love to see the Patriots lose. Let’s throw that out there, right now.

Here is the truth: Deflategate is horrifically overrated, overblown, and a distraction from the fact that the NFL hates the current Super Bowl matchup.

Deflategate is overshadowing the upcoming Super Bowl and simultaneously hiding the lackluster NFL season which cheated the Detroit Lions out of a playoff win, mishandled the cases of Adrian Peterson AND Ray Rice, continues the secret blackballing of Tim Tebow and Michael Sam (Don’t deny it), and continues its mistreatment of Marshall Lynch and his obvious social anxiety problems. Roger Goodell continues to baffle and frustrate with his inconsistent ways of enforcing the rules and punishments---and ridiculous attempts to deliver football to a clearly-uninterested England when cities like Toronto, Mexico City, Montreal, and Los Angeles are still missing their NFL franchise. So how can we totally erase the grim 2014-2015 NFL season? Have potentially a Packers/Broncos Super Bowl. And it didn’t happen. And the NFL higher-ups are pissed.

Yes, the New England Patriots have Spygate in their resume so of course the entire actual thing is suspicious. Somehow, someway the footballs got deflated---even though NONE of those footballs were used in the second half when the Patriots ripped apart both sides of Indianapolis. It could be an equipment manager. It could be the third-string quarterback involved in one of Bill Belichick’s absolutely evil schemes. It could have been Tom Brady, who likes the ball a certain way (like all quarterbacks). It could have been that the balls weren’t even inspected. It could have been the weather. Or all this could be what we call it in baseball: home field advantage.

Fun truth: every home team in all sports has one or two tricks up their sleeve to gain the advantage on the road team---this is why the home team wins 75% of their games. The San Francisco Giants during the World Series put extra water on the field so the Royals couldn’t steal any bases. The Boston Celtics never fixed their basketball court during the Boston Garden days, resulting in the Celtics having the upper hand on how the ball handles off the ground in certain sections. The Seattle Seahawks’ stadium is built for noise, as even a slightly smaller crowd can sound like a jet engine and dismantle the Richter scale (and may have even manufactured crowd noise in some instances). The Metrodome used to jack up the air conditioning when the Twins had the lead going into the final inning. The Blue Jays may or may not have had people disguised as fans stealing signs—and this goes with the Detroit Tigers as well.Even my Tampa Bay Rays lowered the left field wall to allow for more potential home run robbery---even though it wound up helping the team in a totally different way....

Side note...poor Evan Longoria. His 2015 is going to suck. Anyways, back on topic....



The point is, Home Field Advantage. This is all Home Field Advantage. Don’t like the disadvantaged footballs? Win more games then.



The other factor we must face is, ALL quarterbacks like their footballs with a certain grip, a certain weight. This is not a Patriots thing, this is an all quarterbacks thing. And I can promise you 1,250% that if it was Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, Tony Romo, or even Andrew Luck altering the football this would be a non-issue. The Golden Boys of Football would be untouched by controversy like this. Peyton Manning can be caught smoking a massive blunt while inside one of his Papa Johns and I bet you the NFL will look the other direction. If the Packers had committed the BountyGate scandal, we would not see their coach knocked out for a year.

The New England Patriots have been under a much closer watch, and it has been this way for a very long time. There is Patriots fatigue outside of Florida and the New England area. They are nowhere near being the most liked team in the NFL. The NFL secretly loves the Broncos and probably hates the fact that once again New England is in the Super Bowl. They are equally pissed that the polarizing Seattle Seahawks passed the more-likable Green Bay Packers to enter the championship dance. 4 of the 5 most popular NFL teams were in the playoffs---and none are in the Super Bowl right now. In order to settle the Patriots fatigue and in order to attempt to bring down the disliked Brady/Belichick combination, we have this non-issue of inflated footballs. If the NFL believes that New England is the ONLY home team to not follow the football weight rules, they are just as dumb as I believe.

We are in for an exciting Super Bowl. The NFL needs to drop this non-issue, and focus on the upcoming game. End of story. Its over.





P.S. I don’t hear much talk about how the Seahawks lead the NFL in PED suspensions in the past 5 years…….