Tweets of the Week: Patriots Pummel Deflated Colts
WTHR-TV’s Bob Kravitz broke the story via a source that the NFL is investigating whether the New England Patriots deflated balls in-game last night against the Indianapolis Colts. The Pats may face punishment including the loss of future draft picks. Colts fans, summoning all their outrage, will recall the 2007 “Spygate” scandal, in which Pats coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000 and the team had to hand over $250,000 after it was found that the organization spied on New York Jets coaches’ sideline signals via videotape. Even so, deflated balls hardly tell the entire story:
Nobody is suggesting this is why the colts lost obviously. They were manhandled.
— Bob Kravitz (@bkravitz) January 19, 2015
But Kravitz wasn’t done with his truthiness:
I can't help but think we are watching Reggie Wayne's last game. Could be wrong, but that's my sense. #ColtsWTHR
— Bob Kravitz (@bkravitz) January 19, 2015
As we are now up to our eyes in awards season:
@thejoeball NPH put up a better fight than the Colts.
— Michael Rubino (@MARubino) January 19, 2015
About the below: C—all of the above?
Which is more unpleasant: Listening to Bradshaw talking shingles, or watching the Pats crush the Colts?
— maximillian potter (@maxapotter) January 19, 2015
This is sobering about the Colts:
Troy Murphy, Brandon Rush, and T.J. Ford were starting for the Pacers the last time the Colts beat the Patriots.
— Derek Schultz (@Schultz975) January 19, 2015
Fault in Our Stars author John Green, beaming in from his sports-centric Twitter account, waxed philosophical about it all, even if perennial Colts foil Tom Brady could not:
There is a kind of glory to Tom Brady, a man who appears never to have considered that human experience has no inherent reason or meaning.
— John Green (@sportswithjohn) January 19, 2015
More Pacers talk seeped into the mix, as perhaps it only could:
Well, at least we have the #Pacers. Or, to be more precise, the NBA trade deadline.
— Conrad Brunner (@1070Bruno) January 19, 2015
But consider this, Colts fans: It could always be worse.
Just a terrible candy. pic.twitter.com/8MqSWBUL7H
— Peter Dunn (@PeteThePlanner) January 19, 2015
In closing, anyone for a Spaceballs reference?
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb. pic.twitter.com/z3jlRNiItR
— SB Nation GIF (@SBNationGIF) January 19, 2015
