BTW if you want to talk about cheating ... take your pick from the PEDs and illegal practices by the Seahawks. Seattle has been accused, convicted and punished, and you want to talk about the Patriots getting a competitive advantage? The Patriots "cheating" is small potatoes by comparison. Every team and every player try to get an edge, yes absolutely, but there's a huge difference between violating a league rule and breaking a league law -- it's a technicality vs. a felony.
NFL '14 Season Thread
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I'm pulling for the Hawks but I think the Patriots take it with Gronkowski having a huge day.
Patriots 31 Seahawks 17
Patriots 31 Seahawks 17
Throughout sports history, cheating has existed in every sport in some way, shape, or form, which has caused whatever sport it is to become damaged, sometimes permanently.here are many different ways to cheat in sports, such as fixing games, placing bets on teams, lying about your age, and the biggest one of them all, taking performance enhancing substances.
Sports such as baseball, track and field, weightlifting, and cycling have all had major problems with performance enhancing substances in recent years. This has caused all of these sports to all face major criticism from fans and the media.
In the Olympics, people cheat for national glory such as Marion Jones and Ben Johnson, and because of this, the Olympics are more tarnished than any other sport with performance-enhancing substances.
Besides performance enhancing substances, there are others ways to cheat which are used by athletes in order to get an edge on the playing field.
In sports such as college basketball, the players will fix games by using a point spread in order to get money that they will need for expenses such as living, as the NCAA gives them no money.
Throughout sports, people will always try to gain a competitive edge in order to win games.
Players such as the 1919 Black Sox and Pete Rose in 1989 have bet on baseball in order to gain money, but now both guilty parties have been banned from baseball for life. Players in baseball also scuff baseball with items such as sandpaper, corked bats, and steal signs, all of which is cheating in order to gain a competitive edge on there opponents.
In football, teams steal signs, sell playbooks, and most famously, steal signs by use of video (Spygate).
In basketball, referee Tim Donaghy fixed games as an official, which became a black eye for the NBA.
In college sports, schools' recruit athletes illegally, and athletes will try to gain money as they need money for living expenses.
Even in Little League, cheating happens, which is evident with Danny Almonte in 2001, as he lied about his age in order to participate in the Little League World Series.
The truth is, cheating in sports has existed since the beginning of sports history, and exists on all levels of playing fields; from professional all the way down to Little League.
I am fond of the reverse mojo myself
What a rip-off. Katy Perry at half time and no wardrobe malfunction!!!
Their defense gave away gifts all game. Seahawks game plan second half sucked, of course Brady will get all the credit despite an average game.
Marshawn Lynch is like a human tank, how do you not run the ball in from that distance? They deserved to lose with bonehead plays like that. A gift to the Deflateriots
I swear I didn't read your post before I posted mine.
Game was ours!! Whoever called a pass there just brain farted!!
Merry Christmas to the dirtiest team in pro sports.
Merry Christmas to the dirtiest team in pro sports.
Yeah , because the Seahawks have been so dominate over the past decade, you just got to hate them. There was absolutely nothing unlikeable about that team. The Deflatetriots shouldn't have even been in this game tonight.
Should be an asterisk by the win.
Eat a dick.
BCT
Pucker Up Butter Cup.
Last year seattle deserved to be champs, this year they had so much lucky shit happen it wasn't even funny. I'm butthurt my Packers blew it but still it would have killed me if they won it all on another BS catch.
BCT
Pucker Up Butter Cup.
The Seahawks took my team out and I still didn't find them to be a team worth hating. I remember when they were the laughing stock of the NFL back during the Largent Kenny Easley era. Hardly a team that rises to the level of deserved hatred like Dallas or numerous other multi Super Bowl champs.
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