To: ColdOne
He's guilty of equipment tampering.
The NFL has a set penalty for tampering with footballs and its a $25,000 fine.
But there is a bit of a loophole that allows the Commissioner to impose "other penalties" if he sees fit.
Like a 4-game suspension.
Loss of a 1st round draft pick.
Loss of a 4th round draft pick.
And a million dollar fine.
The commissioner had discretion -- and he used it.
7 posted on
05/11/2015 6:04:47 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
("It's not easy being drunk all the time; everyone would do it, if it were easy.")
To: ClearCase_guy
I like some of the posts on a Boston website -
If you suspend one, then you suspend all. Win as a team, lose as a team.
Don’t even take the field during the Brady suspension games - If Robert Kraft has the stones, refund the home game suspensions, and concede the victory to the other team.
Patriots will then go 12-4.
11 posted on
05/11/2015 6:11:05 PM PDT by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: ClearCase_guy
He apparently has discretion to decide guilt out of whole cloth as well.
20 posted on
05/11/2015 6:22:26 PM PDT by
Ingtar
(Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Why now? Why not before the super bowl when the incident happened? Because they did not want their ox gored before the big game, too much money to lose. This is really a joke and of no consequense. Does anyone really think he will feel the pain of a four game suspension?
34 posted on
05/11/2015 7:03:15 PM PDT by
Fungi
To: ClearCase_guy
Why should I give a damn about this?
41 posted on
05/11/2015 7:22:26 PM PDT by
telstar12.5
(...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
To: ClearCase_guy
The problem is that it is not just the Patriots, this who “deflation” of NFL footballs is very much a system-wide problem.
88 posted on
05/12/2015 6:17:18 AM PDT by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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