Under-inflated balls!

True, but they cheated anyway, like Nixon in the 72 election. The funniest part is watching Brady say he didn't notice anything. Here is a guy who handles footballs everyday, all day saying he didn't notice anything when a defensive back noticed it immediately upon catching it and called it to the attention of the refs.

I don't condone cheating. If they get to the bottom of it, the guilty ought to be banned from football for a few games at least.

Sources earlier this season told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter that the Colts had concerns about underinflated balls after their regular-season game against the visiting Patriots on Nov. 16.

During that game, Colts safety Mike Adams twice intercepted Tom Brady and gave the balls to the Colts' equipment manager to save -- and both times there were concerns about the balls feeling underinflated, sources told Schefter.

Those sources said the Colts raised concerns to the league, which was aware of the issue going into this weekend's AFC title game.

With regard to footballs, I’m sure that any current or past player of mine would tell you that the balls we practice with are as bad as they can be: wet, sticky, cold, slippery, however bad we can make them, I make them.

Brady, the Patriots’ quarterback, wants us to believe that:

Before games, like most quarterbacks, he makes sure the footballs meet his precise specifications. He likes them to have 12.5 pounds of pressure per square inch. Presumably, he also likes them worked in so they are not too shiny, too slippery, too waxy, or covered in maple syrup. Then -- he made this point multiple times Thursday -- he doesn’t want anybody touching them. They’re perfect the way they are.

And yet, during the first half of the Patriots’ AFC Championship win over the Colts, Brady was playing with balls that were well under his preferred 12.5 pounds of PSI. At least 11 of the 12 were under-inflated.

But guess what? He didn’t notice. He had nothing to do with it. He has no idea how it happened. Maybe a manager did it on his own, maybe there was a porcupine in the ball bag. But Brady -- Tom Brady, the same extremely competitive, detail-oriented man who helped lobby the league to allow quarterbacks to supply their own footballs -- didn’t notice they were under-inflated.

Then, at the start of the second half, Brady started using new footballs that were properly inflated and he said he didn't notice the difference.

The New England Patriots cheated. Reasonable people understand this. Eleven out of 12 (or possibly 12 of 12) footballs do not get deflated like that by accident. (The Colts’ footballs did not deflate like that, so please send your angry “it was the elements!” e-mails to the Weather Channel. Nobody else wants to read them.)

What the Patriots did in their romp of the Colts is the very definition of cheating: altering the game to give yourself an unfair advantage. I know some people in the sport who think it’s a large advantage. Maybe you think it’s a small advantage. But it is still cheating.

in an NFL game which he deems so unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of a game.

Correct. Brady likes his footballs softer that does Aaron who stated he like his inflated to the max. Each QB has the luxury to set the inflation level within the NFL guidelines.

I see no conspiracy here only hyper-ventilation from losers like the Ravens and Colts.

Let's consider a ball blown to the minimum level. After rushing the ball for almost 200 yards in a game and getting a pounding by those trying to tackle the running back, is it conceivable a ball might deflate a bit? When a QB passes for almost 300 years and balls getting crushed by an offensive lineman who scores a TD on a pass, the ball might deflate a bit?

As stated, if the Colts actually had any offense, maybe their balls might have deflated a bit.

Common sense to me. And I await to see if the NFL will actually investigate this "thoroughly".

NOTE: I am a Giants Fan so I have no dog in this fight.