Q: What's the difference between Bill Belichick and Felix Faust?

A: One is an ancient sorcerer who has made several dark pacts with demons to gain and control great power. The other has a Heroclix piece.

Make a Tom Brady Clix, with a SP that allows him to shrink the leather on all other figures boots, so they cannot move and are light enough for him to throw them off the map.

The Stampeders.

They won the Grey Cup last year.

Sports still don't = news. Once, our local news station led with the story of Barry Switzer's retirement. Our state never had a chance.

Well done.

Semi-Related Sidenote: They need to remake Bill Parcells using Master Pandemonium's dial:
DEMONIC MOOBS: Give Bill Parcells a power action when there are no Demonic Moob tokens on the map placed by him. Place up to 2 Demonic Moob bystander tokens as described on this card on the map within 5 squares and line of fire. For each of these tokens on the map, Bill Parcells modifies his attack value by -1. When one of these Demonic Moob tokens is KO'd roll a d6 and on a result of 1 - 3, deal Bill Parcells 1 unavoidable damage.

We've always been at war with Eurasia.

Felix Faust = Peace
New England Patriots = Ignorance

We'll have a decision by Goodell on Deflategate before the second week in September, as that is the start of the season and the Patriots and the rest of the league need to know if Tom Terrific will be playing.

I have little faith that a decision will be made on Faust that soon. There isn't as much pressure on WK to make a decision in a timely manner.


Whether or not the team played better is irrelevant. The investigation was about a rules violation. Rules violations need to be evaluated independent of outcome. If you play Heroclix with loaded dice and still lose, that doesn't make using loaded dice "okay".

The reason the penalty was so harsh was not as much about deflated balls though, but about cooperation with an ongoing investigation. The investigator didn't even ask to take possession of Brady's phone.

All that said, there's no way Brady serves 4 games. It'll get knocked down, probably to 1-2 games. If he takes it to court from there, he probably won't serve any suspension in the 2015 season. If you play fantasy football, I think Brady is a decent QB target in your drafts right now. The delayed ruling actually helps canny early drafters, IMO.

A story about allegations that last year's league champions in America's most popular sport broke rules on their way to the championship isn't news? It may not be international news, but it certainly has been a big news story in the U.S.

I what both of you did there-- well done!

Both of the statements are quotes from the same movie. It is just another example of the cleverness that has been weaving its way through this thread!

Hold the phone here buckaroo. Watergate was not about a politician getting"caught lying". Watergate was about the President of the USA sending people working for him, and being paid with US taxpayers dollars, to break into the offices of the Democratic Party headquarters, located in the Watergate hotel at that time, to steal documents regarding Democratic strategy in the upcoming Presidential election as a means of assisting in the reelection of a sitting President. No one died as a result, but a President was breaking the law, and then trying to use Presidential powers to avoid an investigation on order to circumvent US laws, all as a means of attempting to steal the political process. He didn't just lie, he broke the law, and then tried to defend the act by declaring the President above the law.

As for Deflategate, if the Patriots were the only ones cheating, then why did half of the Colts balls also end up underinflated?

They didn't.

Of the 11 Patriots balls that were measured, none were higher than 11.5 PSI rated by Blakeman's device, and only one was above 12 PSI rated by Priolean's device (12.3). So all were under-inflated, based on the measurements of both devices. They didn't measure the ball that was intercepted that created the need for halftime measurements.

All Colts balls that were measured were rated at 12.5 PSI by Blakemon's device. 3 were rated at under 12.5 by Priolean's device, but they were all well above 12 PSI (12.15 was the lowest). At worst, the ratings were inconclusive on three balls as to whether they were above or slightly below the threshold, but all were at least near the minimum. They would have measured more, but ran out of time.

The Patriots balls were also the only ones that went missing between the pre-game measurements and the start of the game, taken by McNally into the bathroom.

The text messages between McNally and Jastremski are also pretty damaging.

Again though, Tom Terrific's suspension isn't about cheating, it's about withholding evidence and impeding an NFL investigation. He obviously has some incriminating texts or emails on his phone that he didn't want to share. The investigators didn't even want the phone...they were willing to have the texts and emails vetted by Tom's lawyer and simply read to them (or "produced") if they were related to the investigation (p 21 of the report).

If you want to read the Wells report, it's online. You can find it here: https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...flategate.html

Uh...why are you trying to argue with a thing I didn't say?