It’s like Barry Bonds–did they really need it? That’s the feeling football fans have after the deflated footballs fiasco leaves a deflated feeling around the Patriots. Why’d they do it? They beat the Colts 45-7.
The writer–WHTR.com columnist Bob Kravitz–who broke the deflate-gate story is as tired as anybody of Patriots’ scheming. He wants the Patriots to play it straight, a strategy he thinks they can win with anyway. After the 2007 cheating debacle, no lessons learned? The NFL has been pretty light, by most accounts, in the discipline department lately. Will Roger Goodell actually suspend Bill Belichick for the Super Bowl? Why else even admit the balls were deflated, other than as a pretext for suspension? Or will, as Kravitz tweeted (below) Patriots owner Robert Kraft take the league off the hook and pull the plug on Belichick himself? Something’s got to happen–otherwise the NFL would never have admitted it in the first place. It’s not a debate about whether a rule was broken. It was. The rule–written in the NFL rulebook–was violated. Not once, but for the duration of the AFC Championship game.
If bob kraft is a true man of integrity he will take it out of the leagues hands and fire belichick. Not holding my breath
— Bob Kravitz (@bkravitz) January 21, 2015
— Bob Kravitz(@bkravitz) January 21, 2015
If morts report is on target, and I’m sure it is, belichick should be suspended from the Super Bowl. My opinion.
— Bob Kravitz (@bkravitz) January 21, 2015
