Posted on 07/31/2015 2:23:04 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper
Robert Kraft is in a bizarre position right now. His own team and its best player have been disciplined, but now he has to take the commissioner's side in the case brought by the NFLPA.
I am not comparing the two scandals. Obviously, the PP outrage is a million times worse.
I was just pointing out that both used similar deceptive tactics by trying to demonize their accusers.
I am sorry that I offended you.
That’s just plain dumb. If the NFL launched and investigation everytime a team made a compliant against another team it would be the National Complaint League. GMAFB.
Division III football has more security for their footballs than the NFL.
That goes to show you how serious the NFL is about this.
The whole thing is crap.
No, it’s not dumb. This wasn’t just a silly complaint that was made by the Colts after the fact, involving a rant about some kind of judgment call by the officials. There’s a specific NFL office (NFL Game Day Operations) that deals with on-field matters like this where the issue involves a potential serious breach of the rules by one team. This office of the NFL has event-day staff on the field at every game specifically to deal with a situation like this one. They serve as the equivalent of a “grand jury” of sorts, referring matters to the league offices that require further investigation.
This is pretty damning; no one’s refuting it:
RE: No, it’s not dumb.
Yeah it is. Juvenile too.
Clock is ticking until Goodell is removed. He makes Tagliabue look competant.
I remember thinking: “WTF’s up with this guy?” back when he reamed DAL & WAS for spending during the salary uncapped season a few years back. I still don’t get why they were punished.
This current situation has gone from a $25,000 equipment violation (which has yet to be proven) to a Watergate-esque s**tshow.
Kraft strongly supported the turd last year during the Ray Rice fiasco (And why isn’t the fact that Rice is being blackballed bring brought up?) and this (at best) minor equipment violation has turned into WW III. Like I posted earlier, time for some counter-measures against Goodell and take him and his underlings out. And dirt on culpable owners, GMs, etc. needs to be dug up and released as well. This situation has gone completely amok.
It looks to me like a case of “let’s hate the winners”. A case of “I really hate that quaterback too, he is a great player, is good looking, has a beautiful wife and family and most of all he is a winner”.
Brady will win his case and I hope he make Goodell and the NFL look like the idiots they are.
I find it astonishing the NFL lets each team provide their own balls. Gimme a break, the NFL should provide the balls for games.
“These are the game balls. Everybody uses the same balls to pass, kick, catch and run. No exceptions.”
Yeah, the NFL should have left New England as they were with the Sullivans et.al. (pardon to the Sullivans, it just wasn’t their thing)
Were it not for an injury, Bledsoe would have continued...
Were it not for our turkey dinner being ready and the women yelling at us, we wouldn’t have missed what’s his name making that pass
If someone hadn’t called the Patriots on filming plays (as many others were doing/similar) Playgate/filmgate wouldn’t have happened.
What is Stephagetuonthis going to ask (or to whom) about this and when? (likely: Christie, Jeb, Kerry, Romney, eh, fill in the rest)
Here’s an IMPOTANT question: Why has Goodell allowed the Patriots to use GUNS at a sporting event?
Amen. I can’t disagree with anything you wrote.
We do things a little different in my house. Once the cooked turkey has "rested" for about an hour, we will cut it up entirely. We don't need the ceremony of "carving at the table", it's too corny and Norman Rockwellish. Yes, we just cut the whole darn thing up and put the white meat on a platter and the dark meat in a bowl before bringing to table.
I like the dark meat. I'm a legs and thigh kind of guy.
We then take all the bones and other "non-meat" stuff from the turkey and dump it into a pot. We fill it halfway with water and make soup from it. But the soup can wait a day or two.
I often wonder how things would have turned out had Bledsoe not been injured. If you remember, this was the first football game that the Patriots played after 9/11. And Bledsoe got hurt and Brady was named the starter for the next game.
Tom Brady, a player that almost nobody had ever heard of, then led the New England Patriots to their first Super Bowl victory. The first of many.
It is not for me to say what the P.S.I. was on the balls the day that Brady first started for the Patriots back in 2001.
2001 seems like such a long time ago now. Hard to believe Brady has been playing for this long and he still apparently has a few years left to play.
As for Drew Bledsoe, I have no idea what he is doing now. I think he went to the Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys with a diminishing record of success. He sure liked to throw the interceptions. And whenever he threw the interceptions, his face always looked like that of Woody, that "Toy Story" character.
The Bledsoe "I just threw an interception" face looks just like Woody. Kind of a sad sack, Charlie Brown kind of look. Do you remember that sorrowful two-note motif that SNL used to play for the Debbie Downer skits? Well that might have been what should have been played everytime Drew Bledsoe tossed an interception. Wah-wahhhhh.
I remember the days of the Sullivans owning the football club. What crazy days. Remember that Jackson tour? I think that was the tour that Michael Jackson's hair caught fire. Also, remember the Patriots coach that almost got electrocuted at his first press conference because his microphone was electrified? Strange, strange things have happened with this New England Patriots football club over the years.
That snowplow clearing a path for the winning field goal kick in the snow, driven by a guy that was on furlough from prison. You can't make this stuff up.
When John Lennon was assassinated at the Dakota in 1980, guess who was on TV? The New England Patriots, making a rare appearance (for the times) on Monday Night Football. The Patriots were lining up for a field goal (not the snow game) when Howard Cosell, perhaps the greatest and most legendary sportscaster in the history of human civilization, announced to the world that the Beatles would never be getting back together again. I was watching the game that night and immediately turned on the radio to hear nothing but Beatles songs. Ronald Reagan had just been elected president. Also, I had enlisted into the Marine Corps and was waiting for boot camp to start in Parris Island. All this in December of 1980. What a wild time.
But getting back to the Thanksgiving turkey. Thanksgiving is now not that far way. For we are in August 1, which I always refer to as the "top of the roller coaster". We are in mid-summer, NFL training camps have opened, back to school sales are starting, and Halloween candy is starting to appear at CVS.
So we are now at the top of the roller coaster. It's August 1. It's all downhill from here and before you know it, it will be Christmas and New Years Day and we will be freezing in the cold and snow, at least here in the Northeast. Global warming? I doubt it.
But on the bright side, in the depths of the winter that is rushing upon us, we will have the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary and all sorts of politics to talk about. 2016 could be the year of Trump like 1980 was the year of Reagan.
I am definitely cutting up my turkey again this Thanksgiving before serving it and I don't care what anybody has to say about it.
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