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Here's an article with evidence that Deflategate may be a genuinely significant competitive advantage: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/01/23/deflated-patriots-statistically-impossible-fumble-record/

In what way isn't it? Are you seriously arguing tampering with equipment isn't worse than a holding call? This isn't too far off from yacking half a yard off the chain gang's chain, setting the play clock to run faster for the other team, or hacking into the other team's helmet signal. It's illegal and it is suspendable.

This isn't like a holding call - it's like a player running off the bench and tackling someone. You do that, you'll get ejected and probably suspended too.

Take it as you will, but now some of the Ravens players are saying they think balls were under inflated in their game as well. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/jason-la-canfora/24981269/some-baltimore-ravens-think-footballs-were-under-inflated-vs-patriots

The only problem there is there is no provision anywhere in the NFL rulebook to change the result of a finished game. It's the same thing in the NCAA - once the game is over, the result is final. Short of Goodell suspending the Patriots franchise, there is literally nothing that can be done to change the outcome.

That's the perfect comparison here. Watergate came in the midst of a campaign where Nixon won 61% of the vote against someone so libera they lost every state but Massachusetts and DC, and yet he was still delusional enough to think he needed to break the law to win. Nobody in their right mind thinks the Patriots would have lost that game because of football deflation, but Bill Belichick does these stupid things that make no sense to increase the odds even further. The Patriots were always going to beat Indianapolis. Why bother with this?

Why exactly is Hardy, not his friend, in jail then?

It's not the franchising that is bad. It's doing that and then wasting your second-round pick on another end.

This. We'll see the evidence and then decide from there.

You can get arrested for yelling at someone?

That Ealy pick looks better now... if only we hadn't paid Hardy 12 million rather than fix our line.