Posted on 07/15/2016 10:31:17 AM PDT by Biggirl
Tom Brady announced Friday that he will not appeal his four-game Deflategate suspension to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying in a message on his Facebook page that he will "no longer proceed with the legal process."
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Patriots will still win the division.
Wise decision, now that Ginsberg has gone on record as being biased against men.
Cheater throws in towel and swallows punishment. Don’t be so sure of that second point you made.
Wow, so Tom won’t drag his attempt to escape discipline in front of the highest court in the land? How big of him. I like Brady, he’s a local guy who grew up revering Joe Montana, as I and every other Bay Area kid did. And he’s obviously one of the best QBs of all time (I’d still rate Montana ahead of him). But he really needs to learn to admit when he’s wrong, accept his punishment like a man and move on. Most kids can act better than this.
No, he did not. Where is your proof?
How can supposed professional referees not be held accountable?
Two teams, two levels of inflation, all handled by “one” set of refs.
Couldn’t they tell the difference in inflation levels?
Moreover, they were alerted in the playoff game the week before.
And, how does the NFL permit it that each team controls their set of footballs.
Never happen in major league baseball.
“National Felon League.”
Guess they took the air out of his sails eh?
Serve the suspension and get it over with.
Some people are such utter fools about this so called scandal. After all, it's the nature of the charge that's important, not the nature of the evidence. Actually you can add the jealousy of other team fans who imply hate them because they win all the time.
Oh my. Was Tom Brady involved in changing of air pressure in the footballs? His trainer says he was and had texts. Tom's phone had a boating accident when they asked for it. The NFL said yes. His coach didn't defend him.
Did Tom know the rules? Yes, he was part of the committee that got the rule changed so that the teams provided the footballs for the game instead of the NFL. This way they could get some scuffed balls instead of slick and new.
So what proof would you like? A video of Brady in a dress with a ball pump before a game?
The NFL allowed it because individual inflation preferences for QBs potentially increases offense. To the lowest common denominator fan, scoring = excitement and well played defense looks like a guy mauling someone who was about to do something exciting. Same thing in NBA. MLB has a different dynamic because of pitching, but almost all changes were still made to help hitting and scoring.
The NFL is the biggest US pro sport by leaps and bounds because it caters to casual fans. Looking around at the state of the culture, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that NFL is the most popular.
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Yeah, that'd work. Have you got it?
Proof? Goodell has none. The Wells report has none.
But, let's move along already. Garappola will take the Patriots 4 and 0 against the Cards, Dolphins, Texans and the Bills in the first 4 games. No worries.
Ha! Because just maybe the court has more important things to do. (where’s that eye rolling emoji? )
Brady will always have an * by his name - won championships...but with the dark cloud of cheating surrounding his career.
You're assuming they checked the balls in the first place. I say they didn't. Throughout this entire spectacle, no one ever even asked if proper procedures were maintained by the officiating crew.
“National Felon League.”
Yet people will flock to the stupid game show each and every Sunday.
I used to love the NFL. It’s only a step up from WWE Wrastlin’ these days though. The rules anymore allow for almost any penalty to be called on any play. The refs can control the flow of a game w/o looking shady.
I kind of lost interest in the game show after the Steelers “won” the “Jerome Bettis Farewell Game Show” of the 2005 season. Seattle got shafted. I pretty much stopped watching the Steelers after that farce (and I’m from Pittsburgh ... I’m supposed to bleed black and gold!).
I should have been clued into the joke status of officiating about 3 weeks before that Super Bowl ... the refs tried hard to hand the Steelers’ second round playoff game against Indianapolis to the Colts (for Peyton Manning’s legacy’s sake), but the Steelers managed to hang in there and won after what’s-his-name shanked that field goal attempt in the final seconds after that Bettis fumble.
Prior to that disaster, Troy Polamalu intercepted the ball with ~3 minutes left ... it was an interception to anyone watching but the blind and the game should have ended right there ... however, the refs called it back and all of that “drama” unfolded.
I kind of think the 1990s was the last good decade of pro football ... either that or I hit my 30s in the ‘00s and couldn’t care less about it anymore :-). It just seemed that they started to pile on the rules and made the game more of a gonzo-spectacle right around the turn of the century. I know ratings are up, but the NFL just seems like an echo of what the league used to be like.
I highly doubt the Court would have heard the case anyway.
He got caught cheating ...
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No he didn’t. The NFL railroaded him.
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