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Denver cornerback Aqib Talib just laughed when asked about it,Air Max 95 Black Leather.
It's a word the Colts quarterback wished he'd never used, but one he and other Pro Bowl players will hear all week.
"It's just crazy how the NFL works," he said. "You deal with so many different things going on, and now this hanging over the Super Bowl. I imagine the footballs in the Super Bowl are going to be the most scrutinized footballs of all time."
Players drafted for the two Pro Bowl teams on Wednesday night were asked again and again about the report that footballs used by the Patriots against the Colts were well below the required inflation.
The man who started the inquiry, Indianapolis linebacker D'Qwell Jackson, is a Pro Bowl participant but didn't want to talk to reporters Wednesday night.
He was referring to the 2007 revelation that the Patriots videotaped the New York Jets' signals during a 2007 game. Coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000, the team $250,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic,000 and New England forfeited it's 2008 first-round draft pick.
He told officials there was something wrong with the football after he intercepted Tom Brady's pass.
New York Jets center Nick Mangold plays the Patriots twice each season.
Luck, the No. 1 pick, downplayed the whole affair.
Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri, who played for New England, said he doesn't know what the true story is.
"It's fair. I mean, they've done it," he said. "They have to deal with "spygate' and everything since then. I don't think it's unfairness. It kind of comes with the territory."
Mangold was asked about the fairness of labeling the Patriots as cheaters.
But Mangold said he hasn't heard exactly how using a deflated football helped the Patriots,Cheap Sports Jerseys. He said he called a couple of quarterbacks and they said they'd never done it and didn't know what good it would do.
"Things in the media tend to be blown out of proportion a little bit,Marlon Humphrey Jersey. That's the nature of where we are today in society. But you can't take anything away from them being a heck of a team."
PHOENIX (AP) — Andrew Luck was asked how he felt after Indianapolis' one-sided loss to New England in the AFC championship game.
"The energy is sucked out of you," he said. "You do feel deflated."
"My only issue is I haven't heard anyone say why it's an advantage," he said. "I've heard about it, how it's something wrong, but I haven't heard the advantage of it."
"I don't think them deflated balls had nothing to with LeGarrett Blount running for 150 (yards) and three touch(downs),Nike NFL Jerseys China," he said.
"It was done, it wasn't done. I'm not sure," he said. "If it seems like something that needs to be addressed and punished accordingly, it needs to be done. At the end of the day, everybody just wants an even playing field,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, everything fair for everybody and just go from there." |
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