This is exactly how I feel,
I am always so conflicted when I watch Patriots games - on one hand I love Brady, but on the other I dislike the Pats.
This usually ends in me somehow finding a uneasy joy with either outcome.
Let the Pats hang. Just like the Red Sox in 2004, the Patriots tricked everybody into thinking a team with all the advantages of being from a sports Mecca was some kind of underdog one time before severely overstaying their welcome.
At least when the Celtics won their recent title they had the courtesy to go back to sucking right away.
Just to be perfectly clear: I don't care about the impropriety or the question of guilty or not, but I am excited about the Patriots potentially sucking sooner than they would have otherwise.
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Who the fuck is talking about Ray fucking Rice? Nobody, that's right.
Quit trolling. What do you get from this?
Oh... carry on then.
That is complete and total bullshit. Fuck the NFL.
Fin.
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They should suspend the refs who touch the ball in between every play and didn't notice because it's barely noticable and isn't an advantage. Even if it is an advantage does that mean the NFL doesn't want the ball to be easy to throw and catch? Why not make the ball out of slippery silk and ban gloves? Then we can watch bad passes, missed catches and fumbles all over the place. Yeah, that's what the fans want to see.
The NFL will use this to change the policy on balls now, right?
they actually care about the air pressure in the balls they will.
Considering no one really cared about this for 50+ years, I'm skeptical.
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Too bad TMZ doesn't have video evidence of this, otherwise he would've only gotten two games.
and get it dropped to a 2 or 3 game suspension. I don't see the difference between this and Sean Payton being aware of a bounty on his team. I'm not saying either punishment is justifiable, but Goodell has shown he will punish you for being "aware".
But the report did not say that he was more than likely, probably, fully aware.
LOOK EVERYONE. WE CARE ABOUT JUSTICE AND HOLDING PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE. WE ARE HOLDING PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE. LOOK OVER HERE
Also the NFLs statement says "generally aware" and "unlikely" he didn't know what was going on. The NFL is going to get shredded in arbitration.
No more...its just how I like the balls
it's not even remotely funny. I understood why the NFL dragged the story out with the investigation and everything, but I always assumed the punishment would be a slap on the wrist fine, maybe even a 6-figure fine if the Ginger Hammer was feeling brash. This is a whole new level. I don't think Kraft will be mild-mannered about this and I expect Tom to push this to the plausible extreme to try and get it reduced.
Isn't Kraft one of Godell's few vocal supporters? Not so much anymore, I'd guess.
Brady can fight his suspension, but the Patriots will definitely lose their draft picks. I hope Kraft and Brady lawyer up and appeal/sue the shit out of the NFL.
fucking bullshit.
"Ok Mr. Goodell. Would you please provide us with the pressure of other game balls from this past season?"
Goodell is trying to prove what a badass he is. He got booed off the stage during the draft. Simmons said he had no balls and now he’s taking it personally.
I would also like to know, how a 2017 4th round pick randomly tossed in has any relevance for this punishment? It’s like Goodell has a spinning wheel of the final "bonus" punishment. Not even a Pats fan here, but it really shows the craziness that the NFL now operates with.
right there in the report it says that one of the air gauges was measuring almost all of the Colts balls as being below 12.5 psi as well, but then the officials conveniently stopped measuing them (after 4 balls) because they were "out of time". Funny that.
This is Fking incredible. All of this over a non-story and a non-factor in any game. Brad Johnson admitted that he had the balls doctored before the Super Bowl in 03. Jerry Rice admitted that he used stick-em after it was outlawed. Tons of players on every team are on PEDs....
and the NFL and Roger "asshole" Goodell bow to public pressure and lay these penalties on Brady and the Pats...
while Wife Beaters go free and drafted...
Fuck The NFL. Fuck em.
When did the NFL start TESTING for HGH again?
"It is more probable than not" will get you suspended for 4 games and more?
In that report, there's nothing new or directly evident. It's all speculative. How can a lawyer release a report like that as a final report? NFL only cares about its PR, not about evidence for the very beginning. We have seen this from all the high-profiled cases.
Also, the rule itself or the execution of the rule is a joke. NFL doesn't require both teams use the same balls? How is that fair?
I am glad I don't really care about NFL.
GO BLUE!
I got wind of a recent email sent by them to Goodell
Love, Ray Rice.
The issue with punishing Brady is it is all based on conjecture. There’s not even really circumstantial evidence; there’s really no evidence of Brady’s direct participation in any scheme put forth in Wells’ report. The report implicates Brady basically because it says he had to have known, not because they had any proof that he did know or stated to either McNally or Jastremski that he wanted balls deflated after inspection. The report simply doesn’t find him guilty.
I hope Brady lawyers up and sues the NFL for defamation of character.
Goodell is citing the "integrity of the game" lol... they are such hypocrites.
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until the officials stopped measuring them for "time reasons"
http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/content/wells-report-more-probable…
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Aaron Rodgers wasn't caught with improper balls. However, he did admit to a CBS analysts that he deliberately overinflates the balls on purpose, because sometimes the refs don't notice.
Perhaps the NFL should ban Aaron Rodgers for the 2 games against the Detroit Lions in punishment? :-)
MAYBE, through a third party, deflate a football: 4 games
That's the NFL for you!