Rob Gronkowski tweets logical reason why Patriots balls were soft

On Monday the NFL said it was investigating the alleged deflating of footballs during the Patriots lopsided victory over the Colts. Patriots coach Bill Belichick has said that his team will cooperate fully with the investigation of the Deflategate scandal until the tampering charges are cleared.

But he need not look any further than Rob Gronkowski for a logical explanation for the soft balls.

On his Twitter page, the tight end blamed the air loss on a simple theory that "Gronking May Cause Deflation."

Whoops lol pic.twitter.com/uLxN7A5cpq
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) January 20, 2015

And Gronk knows logic.

Aaron Hernandez can’t watch AFC title game says sheriff: Report

While every New Englander and their grandmother will be watching Tom Brady duke it out with Peyton Manning in Sunday's AFC Championship game, inmate Aaron Hernandez can only hope to get game updates from an over-enthusiastic guard or maybe a fellow jailbird's kite.

“He’s not allowed to watch any TV,” Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson told The Associated Press on Friday. “As far as finding it out, if they hear an officer talking about it they might find out that way. He could probably hear about it if some other inmate were to call home and he were to yell out.”

The former tight end was once part of the New England Patriots lineup, but he now sits in solitary confinement after missing the entire 2013 season — charged in June with murder in the shooting death of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semi-pro football player.

The Patriots released Hernandez on the day he was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty.

Regular prisoners can watch some TV... but Hernandez is being kept in isolation - no interaction with prisoners and no TV #wcvb
— Scott Isaacs (@ScottIsaacs) January 17, 2014

Hernandez is being held without bail at the Bristol County House of Correction in North Dartmouth, Mass., under “special management,” a classification that allows him only three hours outside his cell. He isn’t allowed out at the same time as another inmate and he isn’t allowed any TV privileges, Hodgson said.

There are currently four inmates in the eight-cell unit, and they can talk through their cell doors, according to Hodgson.  Hernandez is also allowed telephone privileges, but not necessarily around game time.

Other inmates in the prison get two hours of television per night, and they usually choose to watch sports, Hodgson said. “Even they won’t be able to watch the two games,” he said.

Because Sunday’s game starts at 3 p.m., they will probably catch the end of the AFC title game during their regular window of 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

If the Patriots beat the Broncos on Sunday and reach the Super Bowl, the general population inmates would be able to catch the first 90 minutes or so of the big game, which is scheduled to kick off at around 6:30 p.m. EST.

Hernandez will probably be doing push-ups in his six-by-eight.

Peyton Manning explains the meaning of 'Omaha' … sort of (VIDEO)

The true meaning of "Omaha" still remains one of the best-kept secrets in the NFL — even after Peyton Manning offered an explanation on Wednesday.

Manning yelled the name of Nebraska's largest city 44 times during the Denver Broncos' 70 offensive plays as they defeated the San Diego Chargers in their AFC divisional-round playoff game on Sunday.

One reporter asked Manning the obvious question about the meaning of the repeated call during the quarterback's media presser yesterday. After Manning asked her if it was "a fan written-in question," the Broncos' quarterback delivered an answer that really didn't explain anything.

"I know a lot of people ask what Omaha means," Manning said. "Omaha is a run play, but it could be a pass play or a play-action pass depending on a couple things: when, which way we're going, the quarter and the jerseys that we're wearing. So it varies, really, play to play. So, that's — there's your answer to that one."

Remember Bill Belichick — it's the jerseys.

Here's each of the 44 "Omaha" calls in case you missed it.

ICYMI: How many times did Peyton Manning yell Omaha on Sunday? WATCH: http://t.co/2vaAjPx4gG #NFLPlayoffs
— NFL (@nfl) January 13, 2014

Patriots' Derrick Martin's home robbed during AFC Championship Game

While New England Patriots Derrick Martin was standing on the sidelines watching his team get beat down by the Baltimore Ravens Sunday night, two masked men stormed and ransacked his Aurora, Colorado home in a home invasion, report police.

The Patriots safety wasn't one of the players in uniform for the AFC Championship Game but still had to endure his team's season coming to an end after the 28-13 loss.  Adding to his misery was finding out later that, while the Pats were getting robbed of a shot at the Super Bowl, burglars were making off with "numerous items of value" from his home.

Aurora police say several people, including children, were in the house at the time watching the game.  The two armed men forced their way into Martin's home and fled with the goods.

Police said that it's not clear if Martin was a target or it was a random home invasion.

"No shot were fired; no threats were made," Aurora Police spokesperson Frank Fania said. "Thankfully, no one was hurt."

While the Patriots loss ends Martin's two-year streak as a part of a Super Bowl champion — he played with the Packers during the 2010 regular season and the Giants 2011 regular season and playoffs — it is a given that the 27-year-old Martin is thankful the Colorado incident ended without anyone getting hurt.

The same can't be said of what happened on the field at Gillette Stadium.

Since the robbery suspects wore masks police don't have a good description to go on.

Belichick: 'You'll have to deal with me again next year'

Bill Belichick gave fair warning Monday — even when no one asked — that he and his gray hoodies will still prowl the sidelines of the New England Patriots or at least another season.

At the head coach's season-ending press conference Monday— a day after the Patriots got trounced by the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game — a glum Belichick told the media:

"I'll be here.  You'll have to deal with me again next year.  I know that's disappointing for a lot of you.  Until I'm told otherwise, I plan on being here."

Belichick — the longest-tenured coach in the NFL is reportedly signed through next season and was paid $7.5 million this year — had led the Patriots to three Super Bowls in his first five seasons but has gone 0-2 in the big game since.  His last championship trophy was hoisted in 2004 — eight seasons ago.

"We won 13 games. We're playing in the AFC championship game," he said.  "Not a whole lot of teams are saying that."

Terrell Suggs calls Patriots 'arrogant f---ers'

There was a lot of fans who found pleasure in watching the Baltimore Ravens beat up on the New England Patriots Sunday night — hello Jets fans — but no one was more happy to see the Pats get laid out on their home turf than linebacker Terrell Suggs.

When the dust settled, after the Ravens convincing 28-13 AFC Championship Game victory, Suggs didn't mince words and unleashed his bottled-up hatred of the team by saying:

"Tell them to have fun at the Pro Bowl.  Arrogant f---ers."

The Ravens' defensive stalwart saved his most succinct jabs for Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and the supposed football genius's Super Bowl dry spell since the infamous Spygate incident — when the team were caught videotaping signals of Jets' defensive coaches during an early-season game in 2007.

"These are the most arrogant p----- in the world starting with (Bill) Belichick on down ... ever since Spygate they haven't been able to win," he told Yahoo! Sports.

Belichick was fined $500,000 for his underlings taking the X's and O's-rated video.

The surly Belichick hasn't won a Super Bowl since the 2004 season and the hooded sore loser didn't make any new friends yesterday when he snubbed CBS sideline reporter Steve Tasker after the loss.

Suggs' choice of words shouldn't be a big deal.  He just saying what a lot of fans think anyway.

Michael Phelps and Adam Jones represent Baltimore after Ravens win

After the Baltimore Ravens convincing 28-13 beat-down of the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, two of Bmore's most well known athletes — Michael Phelps and Adam Jones — help celebrate with the Ravens players after the game.

WBAL sportscaster Pete Gilbert tweeted a photo of the grungy-looking Olympic swimmer and Baltimore Orioles centerfielder on the Gillette Stadium field with a funny description of the duo: "They look like they're goin for a latte and Portlandia marathon back at the hotel."

@simplyaj10 & @michael_phelps Bmore represent twitter.com/WBALPete/statu…

—Pete Gilbert (@WBALPete) January 21, 2013

Way to represent Bmore guys.

Ray Lewis' Support Of Ravens Scapegoats Is Touching

Many people despise Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis' tough-talk and brutal play on the field but yesterday— after his team was defeated by the New England Patriots, 23-20, when a dropped touchdown pass and missed field-goal cost them a chance at winning the  AFC Championship in the waning seconds— they have to admit that the poster-boy for NFL helmet-to-helmet football sounded, well... sensitive.

A bobbled TD catch by Lee Evans— which could have won the game— and then a missed 32-yard field goal by Billy Cundiff with 15 seconds left that could have sent it into overtime were at the center of Lewis' Dr. Phil moment.

After the game, the 16-year veteran came to the defense of the team scapegoats and told reporters,"We win as a team.  We lose as a team."

As for the two dejected players, Lewis said they should "move on as men" and he would reach out to them.

Comforting words from a man who has had his own dark days.

Lewis should know about being some sort of a pariah because he is no stranger to scandal on the field or— more importantly— off of it.

Lewis' touching display of forgiveness can't help but remind people of a dark side to his own past.

Early in his career, Lewis— who is often called heroic on the gridiron— paid a settlement to the families of two homicide victims in a still unresolved double-murder after.

In that 2000 case, Lewis copped to an obstruction of justice plea after the stabbing incident at a post-Super Bowl party outside an Atlanta nightclub.

Yesterday, Lewis said, "There's no one man that's ever lost a game."

As for the uplifting support of his teammates, the man just wants them to know there are bigger things in life to cope with.