It seems headlines regarding the NE Patriots deflated balls

[LiberalFighter]

all have it as if there is a history of cheating.

Every story that I have read shows only the 2007 spygate. That by itself is not a history.

[pscot]

1. It's all very Nixonian

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. True - guess it is kind of like cheating on a spouse - people always

say if you did it once you never can be trusted again.

Here's what I don't get...and no one mentions. I watched the news conference
and admit Brady sounded calm and believable. He seems truthful - or he
is an academy award level actor.

BUT...he spoke about how before every single game he spends time hand
picking the most perfect feeling footballs. He had probably touched a football
a million times. YET...he says he doesn't pay one iota of attention to the
football in the game and noticed nothing. This does not ring true at all.

The only explanation for this is that the footballs he picks are already deflated
and may not be the ones officials check out before the game

[jakeXT]

4. They don't believe him because he says he doesn't squeeze them

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12213476

[MohRokTah]

3. Belicheat on now trying to lie his way out of it.

Watch his eyes, he's lying his ass off.

[jakeXT]

5. Rumors

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The "Deflategate'' controversy in New England resurrected questions former Carolina Panthers general manager Marty Hurney had about the Patriots after losing Super Bowl XXXVIII.

Hurney, now the host of a weekday radio talk show on Charlotte's ESPN 730 AM and an ESPN NFL Insider, shared those questions on Thursday regarding Carolina's 32-29 loss to the Patriots on Feb. 1, 2004.

"There isn't a day that goes by since [then] that I haven't questioned ... that there were some things done that might have been beyond the rules that may have given them a three-point advantage,'' Hurney said during his radio show.

"And I can't prove anything, and that's why I'm very angry. And the anger has come back over the last couple of days that commissioner Roger Goodell decided to shred all of the evidence after 'Spygate,' because I think there were a lot of things in there that would bring closure to a lot of people.''


...

"There are people who swear to me that the Patriots taped our practice down in Houston during Super Bowl week," Hurney said. "I can't prove it. I don't know. And I hate talking like this because I feel like a bad loser, but it just gnaws at you and this latest incident brings it back up.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12216634/former-carolina-panthers-gm-marty-hurney-angry-spygate-amid-new-england-patriots-controversy