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tom brady should retire
By Scumquistador
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:09pm
tom brady should retire
and then tell people that in addition to the suspension, its because of concerns about concussions. and then warn people away from playing football, or from letting their children play the sport, if they love them.
i was about to ponder
By Scumquistador
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:16pm
as a joke, making an analogy to climate change, if there is a group of people that denies that football, concussions, CTE, and horrible traumatic experiences are all linked, just because its in their best interest to ignore it or worse, lie about it
i completely forgot that the NFL ~*actually*~ does that so now i feel like a fool.
Not everyone admits to CTE and football being related
By polarbare
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 1:41pm
from March:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25527...
jerry jones
By Scumquistador
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 2:07pm
one of the most visible and influential people in the organization i listed as disagreeing with the link, doesn't agree with the link?
NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Just pointing out that
By polarbare
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 5:28pm
the NFL as an org is coming around, but some like JJ are gonna hold fast until the bitter end.
The sports radio sky
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:17pm
is falling.
2nd circuit, figures. If it
By anon
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:23pm
2nd circuit, figures. If it goes to the supreme court, expect a 5-3 decision split down the Harvard/Yale line.
Unless the Supreme Court
By roadman
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 1:20pm
vacates the outcome of the AFC championship game (the game where the NFL asserts that underinflated footballs affected the outcome) and requires that both that game and the Super Bowl be replayed.
If you truly believe the NFL's storyline about football pressure being critical to proper play, then that's the only proper resolution of this whole nonsense. Anything else is just the League being heavy handed.
The Supreme Court....
By Nelson Muntz
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 9:13pm
....No matter WHO is on it, shouldn't even bother to hear the case.
if you truly believe Brady's reasoning why he lobbied to get the procedure on who supplies the game balls changed, and if you believe his horse shit story about why he destroyed evidence in the case (I always smash my phone up every once in a while!), then certainly this is heavy handed, yeah.
It's quite simple, really (to everyone except the Patsie Lackeys). The players union GAVE arbiter status to Goodell during the latest collective bargaining agreement. Meaning, they spelled it out that Goodell gets to decide such matters. Which he did. Then the union ran crying to the court because they didn't agree with the decision made by the guy they specifically authorized to make the decision.
Oh, and: HA-HA!!
-Nelson
Are you?
By bosguy22
Tue, 04/26/2016 - 9:03am
A celebrity married to an international superstar model? No? Well, then I don't think you need to worry about smashing your cell phone when you're done with it. Regardless, Brady was told the phone was not needed, and after it was destroyed, the Brady team said they'd help Wells recover all text messages possible from the recipients/senders phones, and they declined. Wells said it wasn't necessary, and that Brady cooperated fully with the investigation. Then, when Goodell ruled, he said destroying the phone was proof of wrongdoing, and that Brady wasn't cooperated. That's BS.
The main issue with the case was that Brady, as a Union member, was never notified that tampering with footballs would result in a 4 game suspension. The rules that players are given said the max penalty for such an infraction was a $25k fine, and that's what other teams had received. While I don't believe there was any tampering (the Patriots footballs deflated in a similar manner as the Colts footballs), even if there was, the penalty was not in line with the rules that were given to Brady.
The equivalent would be if you're a Union bus driver. You're told if you get a speeding ticket, the penalty is a 1 day suspension w/o pay. You get a speeding ticket, and they suspend you for a month.
All flags in MA at half mast
By Foghorn Leghorn
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:30pm
All flags in MA at half mast until Week 5.
Possibly slightly deflate a
By anon
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:40pm
Possibly slightly deflate a football: wrath of the NFL Gods. Beat women and children: sweep it under the rug and hope no one notices. Wow... f'd up priorities, Roger Goodell. What a sick and twisted circus.
That's a big "possibly"
By bosguy22
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 1:19pm
No actual evidence that the balls were ever deflated, let alone Brady being the one who ordered it.
HAHA yet again
By Nelson Muntz
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 9:26pm
Oh the evidence. You must be referring to the evidence that was on the phone that he smashed to bits. The evidence that was in the text messages to/from the Patsie employees. You know, the same guys who were caught on security camera sneaking into a room with the game balls to deflate them.
Yep, no evidence at all.
(ha-ha)
Nelson
I disagree.
By Judge Chin
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 10:35pm
source: Associated Press:
Circuit Judge Denny Chin said evidence of ball tampering was "compelling, if not overwhelming" and there was evidence that Brady "knew about it, consented to it, encouraged it."
I'd love to know what this evidence is
By bosguy22
Tue, 04/26/2016 - 9:05am
They have no proof anything actually happened to the football. The only "evidence" in the Wells report was 1 text referencing "the Deflator", which was sent months before the Colts/Patriots football game.
Multiple scientists have proven that all of the scientific evidence in the Wells report was a complete sham, and the Ideal Gas Law shows the Patriots football were all within expected limits given the conditions.
yep and the public pours
By Lando
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 3:02pm
yep and the public pours millions and millions of dollars into the enterprise in support of this behavior. If people actually cared about domestic and child abuse maybe there would be some incentive, other than morality, to take action.
FREE BRADY
By whyaduck
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:41pm
n/t
The Batriots gut
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 4:25pm
screwed, ahhhhhhh the idea gaze law proofed it.
Oh he's free all right
By Cabados
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 11:47pm
His calendar just freed up for the first four weeks of the season!
[Puts fingers tightly into his ears]
By Gary C
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 1:04pm
LA-LA-LA-LA-LA......
I'M NOT LISTENING.....
Ha-Ha!
By Nelson Muntz
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 8:59pm
I SAID ha-ha!
I don't care about the at all
By Roslindaler
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 9:34pm
I could care less. There, I said it.
oh yah?
By Billy Shakespeare
Mon, 04/25/2016 - 11:46pm
well I don't care about thee, either :P
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