Patriots being investigated after Colts game (2 Viewers)

[SeniorVBDStudent]

It is genuinely cool to see many congrats posts from those who argued with occasionally impossible pats fans here, myself included. Nice day in the shark pool. Now we can just enjoy football.

PS suck it roger. no one likes you.

 

[Old Smiley]

brady should market a line of inflation needles

"Get the perfect PSI, every time"

"Destroy your phone the Patriot way!"

 

[rockaction]

Nothing but begrudging crow to eat on my own behalf (at this point).

The judge didn't like the NFL. Congrats, Pats.

 

[Old Smiley]

It is genuinely cool to see many congrats posts from those who argued with occasionally impossible pats fans here, myself included. Nice day in the shark pool. Now we can just enjoy football.

PS suck it roger. no one likes you.

It looked like as soon as the appeal transcript was released a lot of people here started seeing what was actually happening.

 

[amnesiac]

lamest "controversy" ever.

well, all's well that ends...

 

[treat88]

PS suck it roger. no one likes you.

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[metoo]

The only fantasy downside is if this gets kicked down the road in court and reinstated later in the season. Better for Brady to miss games early than late.

This.

 

[RC94]

I know it's wishful thinking, but I hope this is the end of Goddell as commissioner. He has failed so many times. At this point he has no credibility.

 

[RC94]

Jim Rome ‏@jimrome 9m9 minutes ago
No one is happier about Judge Berman's decision than Redskin GM Scot McCloughan and his wife.

What is this about?

 

[Old Smiley]

Jim Rome ‏@jimrome 9m9 minutes ago
No one is happier about Judge Berman's decision than Redskin GM Scot McCloughan and his wife.

What is this about?

The BenJamins

 

[Anarchy99]

The only fantasy downside is if this gets kicked down the road in court and reinstated later in the season. Better for Brady to miss games early than late.

This.

Most appellate courts don't get to cases for 12 to 18 months. Even if they get an expedited hearing date, it is extremely unlikely the case would be heard before the NFL seasons is over.

 

[dschuler]

I said this a few weeks ago and now it's over! Might as well hand over a fifth ring to touchdown tommy.

Bad day for the NFL.

Great day for Brady.

I have been saying it all along, this case is ridiculous. Brady is coming out smelling like roses. I could see him suing the NFL for $250 million, donating it to charity, and taking over as Captain America in the Marvel series followed by a presidential run in 2028. Way to stick to your guns Mr. Brady, a lot of apologies will soon be coming your way. You sir, are a true Patriot in such a ruthless world.

 

[SIDA!]

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Goodell says they will appeal, of course

Yeah, this is stupid at this point. The NFL needs to just let this one go and get its own disciplinary house in order.

 

[Old Smiley]

The only fantasy downside is if this gets kicked down the road in court and reinstated later in the season. Better for Brady to miss games early than late.

This.

Most appellate courts don't get to cases for 12 to 18 months. Even if they get an expedited hearing date, it is extremely unlikely the case would be heard before the NFL seasons is over.

Stephanie Stradley ‏@StephStradley 24m24 minutes ago

If I were the 2nd Circuit, I'd tell the NFL to pound salt if they asked for an expedited appeal: THIS IS A DUMB CASE

 

[B-Deep]

Jim Rome ‏@jimrome 9m9 minutes ago
No one is happier about Judge Berman's decision than Redskin GM Scot McCloughan and his wife.

What is this about?

ok

listen

deflategate is fine, but we have the wife of the GM of the redskins calling him out for cheating with an ESPN reporter and then asking the reporter how many, um...oral experiences....she provided to get the inside scoop for her stories, and people do not know about it?

so much more fun than deflated footballs

then the best part, the team's "response"

washington: those vulgar tweets were from a fake account, the GMS wife had nothing to do with them

wife of GM: I'm sorry i called that ESPN reporter a pickle juice chugging whore on twitter

washington: ummmmmm well...... ummmmmm.... yeah....

 

[Old Smiley]

Jessica McCloughan For Commish!!

 

[Wooderson]

But now he has to throw a fully inflated ball. He will be shorting it al over the field. He'll quit the game.

like the 2nd half of that AFC championship game where he struggled so much

It was bad attempt at a caddy shack joke.

 

[MattFancy]

I know it's wishful thinking, but I hope this is the end of Goddell as commissioner. He has failed so many times. At this point he has no credibility.

When was the last time something came out in the NFL's favor?

Bountygate? Nope.

Ray Rice? Nope.

Adrian Peterson? Nope.

Deflategate? Nope.

The owners have to be getting tired of this.

 

[Old Smiley]

Doug Farrar with a good piece on Goodell: Vacated Tom Brady suspension the latest hit to Goodell's inept tenure

Doug Farrar ‏@SI_DougFarrar 10m10 minutes ago

Could also be argued that he inherited a licence to print money, established by people with far more vision.

Doug Farrar ‏@SI_DougFarrar 6m6 minutes ago

As I wrote, I think that's the other Goodell misperception. He's not a lapdog. He's a rogue sheriff.

 

[Tool]

It would be fun to go back and dig up a lot of posts. Don't blame anyone though. The NFL pulled the wool over a public that was more than willing to lap up anything anti-Pats. Looking forward to getting back to football.

 

[Tool]

Kind of a bummer about those draft picks though. oh well.

 

[Jrodicus]

Jim Rome ‏@jimrome 9m9 minutes ago
No one is happier about Judge Berman's decision than Redskin GM Scot McCloughan and his wife.

What is this about?

ok

listen

deflategate is fine, but we have the wife of the GM of the redskins calling him out for cheating with an ESPN reporter and then asking the reporter how many, um...oral experiences....she provided to get the inside scoop for her stories, and people do not know about it?

so much more fun than deflated footballs

then the best part, the team's "response"

washington: those vulgar tweets were from a fake account, the GMS wife had nothing to do with them

wife of GM: I'm sorry i called that ESPN reporter a pickle juice chugging whore on twitter

washington: ummmmmm well...... ummmmmm.... yeah....

Allegedly

 

[bostonfred]

A lot of people got fooled by Goodell and Kensil. No shame today for koya, for example, who always seemed pretty levelheaded throughout this process while alternating between fishing and apoplexy. Or bigsteelthrill, who bravely pointed out that settling a case out of court is the same as an admission of guilt in his eyes even knowing that his team gave Roethlisberger a quarter of a billion dollars after he settled some rape stuff out of court. There's no need to go back and find old posts because this isn't about what people on this board said in the past.

It's about justice, for a falsely accused man who stood up to his accusers and win, who fought through the distractions to mount a two score fourth quarter comeback against a historically great defense and had to prepare for a me season while the NFL relentlessly wasted his time. It's about all of the players who have been wronged by the NFL's warped sense of situational justice and the courts once again defending employees from overreaching corporate entities.

Congratulations to Tom Brady, and to all of us in America for this resounding triumph of fairness.

Today we are all Patriots.

 

[Shutout]

A lot of people got fooled by Goodell and Kensil. No shame today for koya, for example, who always seemed pretty levelheaded throughout this process while alternating between fishing and apoplexy. Or bigsteelthrill, who bravely pointed out that settling a case out of court is the same as an admission of guilt in his eyes even knowing that his team gave Roethlisberger a quarter of a billion dollars after he settled some rape stuff out of court. There's no need to go back and find old posts because this isn't about what people on this board said in the past.

It's about justice, for a falsely accused man who stood up to his accusers and win, who fought through the distractions to mount a two score fourth quarter comeback against a historically great defense and had to prepare for a me season while the NFL relentlessly wasted his time. It's about all of the players who have been wronged by the NFL's warped sense of situational justice and the courts once again defending employees from overreaching corporate entities.

Congratulations to Tom Brady, and to all of us in America for this resounding triumph of fairness.

Today we are all Patriots.

I think I hear The Battle Hymn of the Republic...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord....

GLORY GLORY, HALLELUJAH!!

 

[Old Smiley]

Actually the Audibles guys had a very short bash at this at the end of the last News and Notes pod. Not enough IMO, but as Sig said, "The subtext is becoming the text."

 

[RenegadeRoy]

New England was worried that they wouldn't have enough salt for the roads this winter, but the amount of salt extracted from the tears of haters today has provided enough for the next six winters.

 

[dschuler]

A lot of people got fooled by Goodell and Kensil. No shame today for koya, for example, who always seemed pretty levelheaded throughout this process while alternating between fishing and apoplexy. Or bigsteelthrill, who bravely pointed out that settling a case out of court is the same as an admission of guilt in his eyes even knowing that his team gave Roethlisberger a quarter of a billion dollars after he settled some rape stuff out of court. There's no need to go back and find old posts because this isn't about what people on this board said in the past.

It's about justice, for a falsely accused man who stood up to his accusers and win, who fought through the distractions to mount a two score fourth quarter comeback against a historically great defense and had to prepare for a me season while the NFL relentlessly wasted his time. It's about all of the players who have been wronged by the NFL's warped sense of situational justice and the courts once again defending employees from overreaching corporate entities.

Congratulations to Tom Brady, and to all of us in America for this resounding triumph of fairness.

Today we are all Patriots.

Brings tears to my eyes.

 

[LBH]

From how all the pats fans are chirping away you'd think that their team didn't get caught cheating or that their franchise didn't get a 1st rd draft pick taken away...for the second time. So Brady got away with it for now. Patriots organization is still known more for cheating than anything else

 

[ChromeWeasel]

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2015/09/03/judge-spikes-deflategate-decision-on-nfl-shield/

“The Court notes that the Paul, Weiss role in this case seems to have ‘changed’ from ‘independent’ investigators to NFL ‘s retained counsel at the arbitral hearing,” Judge Richard Berman observed. “Among other things, this change in roles may have afforded Goodell (and Pash) greater access to valuable impressions, insights, and other investigative information which was not available to Brady.”

Judge Berman ruled that the NFL made up the rules as it went along and engaged in extreme secrecy—ironically the very charge leveled at the Patriots quarterback by Commissioner Roger Goodell—in the process surrounding the Deflategate suspension of Tom Brady. But the judge’s ridicule of the supposed independence of the Wells investigation represents Berman’s endzone dance after calling the NFL a loser on every point.

Judge Richard Berman renamed the Wells Report the Wells-Pash report, adding the name of the NFL’s general counsel to the investigation’s name. The federal judge mocked the league’s notion of an “independent” investigation by using quotation marks and “supposedly” whenever the i-word appeared. He marvels at the “independent” investigator Ted Wells invoking attorney-client privilege when asked about his communication with the NFL at Brady’s appeal in the league office. Berman puzzled over why Wells allowed NFL general counsel Jeff Pash to edit his report.

“Denied the opportunity to examine Pash at the arbitral hearing,” Berman observes, “Brady was prejudiced. He was foreclosed from exploring, among other things, whether the Pash-Wells Investigation was truly ‘independent,’ and how and why the NFL’s General Counsel came to edit a supposedly independent investigation report.”

From the league never correcting its erroneous initial leaks saying all Patriot balls fell two pounds or more below the limit (none did) to Ted Wells bizarrely rejecting the AFC Championship Game’s referee’s testimony that he used a particular Wilson logo gauge (that Wells’ scientific consultants agreed would have cleared eight of the eleven balls), the NFL repeatedly showed itself as aggressively partisan in this process.

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts,” Francis Bacon wrote. “But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

The NFL began the investigation certain of its conclusion. That’s why Richard Berman isn’t the only guy today doubting the NFL.

 

[B-Deep]

A lot of people got fooled by Goodell and Kensil. No shame today for koya, for example, who always seemed pretty levelheaded throughout this process while alternating between fishing and apoplexy. Or bigsteelthrill, who bravely pointed out that settling a case out of court is the same as an admission of guilt in his eyes even knowing that his team gave Roethlisberger a quarter of a billion dollars after he settled some rape stuff out of court. There's no need to go back and find old posts because this isn't about what people on this board said in the past.

It's about justice, for a falsely accused man who stood up to his accusers and win, who fought through the distractions to mount a two score fourth quarter comeback against a historically great defense and had to prepare for a me season while the NFL relentlessly wasted his time. It's about all of the players who have been wronged by the NFL's warped sense of situational justice and the courts once again defending employees from overreaching corporate entities.

Congratulations to Tom Brady, and to all of us in America for this resounding triumph of fairness.

Today we are all Patriots.

lololol

a TAD over the top?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_I3EYfk82Q

 

[LongDuckDong]

As a Patriots fan who believes September 3, 2015 should be known going forward as Independence Day II, I will say what I am ashamed about is that the New Orleans Saints got railroaded by these gangsters, and because it didn't affect my team, I didn't care.

For that, I am embarrassed. Once it was happening to my team, I cared. Which is why I never took offense with those who wanted the Patriots blood - ultimately that's what being a passionate fan is all about.

 

[MattFancy]

As a Patriots fan who believes September 3, 2015 should be known going forward as Independence Day II, I will say what I am ashamed about is that the New Orleans Saints got railroaded by these gangsters, and because it didn't affect my team, I didn't care.

For that, I am embarrassed. Once it was happening to my team, I cared. Which is why I never took offense with those who wanted the Patriots blood - ultimately that's what being a passionate fan is all about.

Once the Redskins got screwed over with the stupid salary cap penalty, I started to realize how shady the league was. Glad to see teams get the justice they deserve.

 

[AngryPatriot]

From how all the pats fans are chirping away you'd think that their team didn't get caught cheating or that their franchise didn't get a 1st rd draft pick taken away...for the second time. So Brady got away with it for now. Patriots organization is still known more for cheating than anything else

The troll hath spoken!

Actually they're know for being the winningest team of the last 15 years if not longer, with, in mosts opinion, the best QB to ever play the game. just another jealous bitterman hater, up in the Maine woods no less, huh. Only a fool would think the Wells report proved anything, the report didn't even believe it's own findings, lol.

Great day for the almighty World Champion Patriots!!! How sweet it is!!

All this over softer footballs, which in the rules calls for a 25K fine... no cheating here, Brady likes em soft but he'll use what they give him and get rings. Brady proved that.

 

[Jrodicus]

As a Patriots fan who believes September 3, 2015 should be known going forward as Independence Day II, I will say what I am ashamed about is that the New Orleans Saints got railroaded by these gangsters, and because it didn't affect my team, I didn't care.

For that, I am embarrassed. Once it was happening to my team, I cared. Which is why I never took offense with those who wanted the Patriots blood - ultimately that's what being a passionate fan is all about.

Are you ashamed because you think they were innocent or because the punishment didn't fit the crime?

 

[GreekFreak]

From how all the pats fans are chirping away you'd think that their team didn't get caught cheating or that their franchise didn't get a 1st rd draft pick taken away...for the second time. So Brady got away with it for now. Patriots organization is still known more for cheating than anything else

 

[LongDuckDong]

Are you ashamed because you think they were innocent or because the punishment didn't fit the crime?

I don't know enough about the former, but the latter definitely.

 

[Anarchy99]

LOL. Goodell is skipping Opening Night of the NFL season in Foxboro.

 

[Tool]

LOL. Goodell is skipping Opening Night of the NFL season in Foxboro.

I heard he will be attending the national beer pong championship instead.

 

[MattFancy]

LOL. Goodell is skipping Opening Night of the NFL season in Foxboro.

Of course he isn't. Get this idiot out of the league.

 

[PatsWillWin]

LOL. Goodell is skipping Opening Night of the NFL season in Foxboro.

So this was just announced. Does that mean he would've showed up if the suspension was upheld?

 

[Green and Gold]

I don't blame Goodell for not showing up in New England, it would be unpleasant for everyone and would take away from the happy atmosphere.

 

[Short Corner]

And there are still those that will defend him m and think the NFL would lose in court.

Do you like apples?

 

[AngryPatriot]

#GOAT

Brady is vindicated! I got twenty dollars in my pocket. This is fu%#@(ing awesome! Brady never told them to "go below the legal limit" did he? No, he didn't.

Best team in football and props to Kraft for at least changing his tune and backing Brady %100.

 

[Tango]

Best day in a long time--

• Goodell gets slammed
• Pats/Brady still lied their butts off and everyone still knows it

Perfect storm.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

'' Brady`s been vindicated ...DEAL WITH IT '' !!!!!!!!

 

[biju]

LOL. Goodell is skipping Opening Night of the NFL season in Foxboro.

Of course he isn't. Get this idiot out of the league.

You guys do realize this isn't Goodell vs. the owners. All of the decisions he's make is on the behalf of the owners. Any new person they bring in will just be Goodell #2, like Lassie after that first dog died. I can't believe there are people who villianize Goodell and say the owners must be getting sick of this.

Goodell = owners.

 

[Run It Up]

Goodell needs to go because of how ruthless he is. Whether he stays or not, the league and the NFLPA need to reform how discipline is dished out. There needs to be clear cut delivery and channels for appeal with truly neutral arbitrators.

And Ted Wells should never be allowed to be party to any kind of discipline ever again in the NFL.

 

[Insomniac]

LOL. Goodell is skipping Opening Night of the NFL season in Foxboro.

Of course he isn't. Get this idiot out of the league.

You guys do realize this isn't Goodell vs. the owners. All of the decisions he's make is on the behalf of the owners. Any new person they bring in will just be Goodell #2, like Lassie after that first dog died. I can't believe there are people who villianize Goodell and say the owners must be getting sick of this.

Goodell = owners.

Goodell is the owners "fall guy".

 

[Wrigley]

LOL at he didn't do anything

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