Those Filthy Cheating Patriots......

All these Patriot fans trying to down play the significance of Deflating footballs. It was obviously significant enough for them to do it so it must be pretty important.

People trying to say Bill Belichek didn’t know. The man who runs that organization with an iron fist didn’t know the balls were being deflated. Sure…….. That is believable. It was just some ball boy who took it upon himself to deflate the ball Tom Brady would be throwing (in the rain) in a championship game. Sure…why not. Hey look out the window pigs are flying.

If it happened on the Pats then Belicheck knew all about it. You can be sure.

There is nothing more detestable then cheating in sports. And there are no degrees of cheating. You either did it or you didn’t. It is like saying yeah I robbed the bank but I didn’t get a lot of money so it isn’t a big deal. If you did it then it is a big deal.

Lance Armstrong was the most popular athlete on the planet and then he got caught cheating. Now everyone universally hates him and he never actually won the Tour De France. You can check the books. He didn’t win.

Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa were household names in 1998 and today they are outcasts all because of cheating. It is a stain. Doesn’t matter if the corked bat helped. Doesn’t matter if the pine tar worked. If you cheat and are caught then you are done.

Pete Rose has been punished for 25 years because he broke the rules. It is serious business and the Pats have been caught multiple times. If Shaun Payton was suspended a year for breaking the rules with bounty gate then Belicheck (on his second offense) should receive at least that. If it were me I would disqualify him from the super bowl. He would be banned from the event entirely. My guess is that won’t happen but something significant should happen because everyone (except Pats fans) hate a cheater.