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Tom Brady will be suspended by Goodell for role in DeflateGate, announcement next week
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | 5-8-2015 | Gary Myers

Posted on 05/08/2015 3:06:44 PM PDT by servo1969

Tom Brady will be the highest profile player ever suspended in the 96-year history of the NFL.

Roger Goodell's decision is expected to be announced next week and it is no longer a matter of if the NFL commissioner will suspend Brady, but for how long he will suspend him.

In conversations I've had with several key sources who always have a good sense of what goes on at 345 Park Avenue, there is little doubt Goodell considers Brady's role in DeflateGate a serious violation.

The NFL is convinced, according to sources, that connecting all the dots of the evidence supplied by Wells leads to one conclusion:

Brady cheated.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: brady; deflategate; football; goodell; nfl; patriots
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1 posted on 05/08/2015 3:06:44 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

FULL TITLE - Tom Brady will be suspended by Roger Goodell for role in DeflateGate, announcement expected next week


2 posted on 05/08/2015 3:07:39 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: TaMoDee; Absolutely Nobama; Thunder90; 4everontheRight; ABG(anybody but Gore); ...

NFL PING

FReepmail Perdogg to be added to, or to be taken off the NFL Ping list...
3 posted on 05/08/2015 3:08:55 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: servo1969

Goodell is ruining the NFL.


4 posted on 05/08/2015 3:09:52 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (ANYBODY BUT FRICKING JEB AND HILLARY)
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To: servo1969

If I was Brady, I would more probably than not sue the living sh!t out of Goodell.


5 posted on 05/08/2015 3:11:31 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: servo1969

I think this is a publicity-driven item.

But, it is what it is... what’s the over-under on how many games? My bet is two.


6 posted on 05/08/2015 3:11:46 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Goodell is ruining the NFL.

If Brady deliberately cheated then what do you think should happen to him?

7 posted on 05/08/2015 3:12:15 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Perdogg

I watched a news article talking about this story. In the background was the playoff game where the “offense” occurred. The video showed the line judge picking up the ball and throwing it underhanded to the sideline. If the ball was deflated, wouldn’t the game official have noticed if it was such a big deal? Can’t they grip the ball and tell if it’s soft?


8 posted on 05/08/2015 3:13:27 PM PDT by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: chris37

The judge would immediately throw it out. The CBS gives Goodell the power to suspend players.


9 posted on 05/08/2015 3:13:43 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: DoodleDawg

Is that what the investigation proved?


10 posted on 05/08/2015 3:13:44 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Straight Vermonter

For no reason?

He can just suspend them at will?


11 posted on 05/08/2015 3:14:30 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: chris37

If I was Brady, I would more probably than not sue the living sh!t out of Goodell.

...

He should, but I doubt contractual agreements will allow him.


12 posted on 05/08/2015 3:14:47 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: servo1969

The couple of weeks off and seasoning/testing of Garappolo will probably help the team.

And yeah, I thought Brady was up to his hair plugs in it from the second he gave that loopy press conference before the SB.


13 posted on 05/08/2015 3:15:01 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: chris37
Is that what the investigation proved?

I think that's what they concluded. I don't know who they have to prove it to.

14 posted on 05/08/2015 3:15:26 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: chris37

It was proved up to the standard of the rules in the NFL—which is, “more likely than not”.

But yeah, the text messages and all of that have guilty all over them.


15 posted on 05/08/2015 3:16:31 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: servo1969

Someone needs to build a squeeze da ball machine.. Or robot.. Or sumthin.. A commish paid a gazillion dollars forget to bulletproof the business.. And now . welllll..


16 posted on 05/08/2015 3:17:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Whatever they concluded, they concluded “more probably than not”.

Which to me means they have no conclusion at all.


17 posted on 05/08/2015 3:18:24 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: servo1969

To see him laughing and smirking when asked about it bothered me more than having to watch him hoist the Super Bowl trophy.

And that bothered me a lot.


18 posted on 05/08/2015 3:18:59 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Win or Lose, Still a "12"!)
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To: chris37

Personal conduct policy says you can be suspended for behavior detrimental to the image of the league, its teams or its players. Basically it outlaws generating bad press. Most of the players suspended under it were for legal troubles that never resulted in charges much less guilty verdicts.


19 posted on 05/08/2015 3:19:12 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: servo1969

Yes. After all, NFL Football is the most important religion now worshiped in the Western World.


20 posted on 05/08/2015 3:19:38 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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