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Engineering and physics professors weigh in on Brady appeal
Yahoo News ^ | May 24, 2016

Posted on 05/24/2016 12:53:03 PM PDT by detective

Nearly two dozen engineering and physics professors weighed in Tuesday with a federal appeals court being asked to review New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's four-game suspension for ''Deflategate.''

Papers filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said these experts believe the 2nd Circuit's ruling upholding the suspension lacks any scientific proof and the appeals judges should reconsider an April decision that reinstated Brady's suspension.

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: appeal; brady; cheatriots; deflatriots; nfl; notanewstopic
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To: detective
Just as I thought.

I've reviewed the Wikipedia article on this scandal, and I'm confident in the commissioner's ruling.

I also find it very telling that it was Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who initially lobbied the NFL to change its rules to allow each team to provide its own balls, instead of the home team. They "argued for the rules change for the express purpose of letting quarterbacks use footballs that suited them."

The article also covers the text messages issue:

The report concludes it was "more probable than not" that the two deliberately released air from Patriots game balls after they were tested by game officials. In several texts between Jastremski and McNally, the two mention and joke about inflation, deflation, needles, and gifts from Tom Brady to McNally. Tom Brady was a constant reference point in these discussions. McNally referred to himself as "the deflator" in a text message to Jastremski as far back as May 2014
OK, admitted Pats fan, I think I've heard and read all I need to hear and read about deflate-gate.

I hope Tom Brady enjoys his richly deserved 4-game suspension. I certainly will...

61 posted on 05/24/2016 5:49:44 PM PDT by sargon (You're either with Trump, or you're with Hillary.)
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To: Chances Are

Ok, I must have missed something. Was Manning implicated in this thing?


62 posted on 05/25/2016 5:50:39 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: detective

Bite me
with your smarmy answers

You may learn something


63 posted on 05/25/2016 9:37:34 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: detective

Why did Brady send texts to the guy who deflated the balls asking if he was OK? It’s on the record that this guy worshipped Brady and that Brady never so much as have him the time of day before the investigation began?


64 posted on 05/25/2016 9:42:04 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: billyboy15

Implicated? Why use that word? It’s common knowledge he and Brady were in the forefront for this rule change.

CA....


65 posted on 05/25/2016 10:04:14 AM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: sargon

“The report concludes it was “more probable than not””

More probable than not means nothing. It is just innuendo. They don’t have any evidence. It is just speculation.

I get it. You are still upset about the Snow Plow Incident.

There is no sense continuing.


66 posted on 05/25/2016 10:25:38 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective
I get it. You are still upset about the Snow Plow Incident.

I'm upset about the entire pantheon of Patriots cheating, including deflate-gate. But I don't base my opinion on this incident, on the "Snow Plow Incident".

"More probable than not" doesn't mean nothing. It's not just innuendo. It's very similar to the same standard of evidence used in civil suits every day; suits which defendants lose.

The standard of proof certainly sufficient to warrant disciplinary action against an employee of the friggin' NFL!

Thus, as the appellate court confirmed, the commissioner was entirely within his rights, and Tom Brady should serve his suspension.

Your stance appears to be consistent with the type of extreme pro-union bias one would expect expected in the Northeast...

67 posted on 05/25/2016 10:36:17 AM PDT by sargon (You're either with Trump, or you're with Hillary.)
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To: detective

I’m sorry man, I’ll stop now...


68 posted on 05/25/2016 10:36:39 AM PDT by sargon (You're either with Trump, or you're with Hillary.)
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To: Chances Are

My question was regarding the deflate gate thing. Was Manning implicated in that scandal?

Having the teams take control of the footballs does not in and of itself lead to criminality.


69 posted on 05/25/2016 10:37:15 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: sargon

No problem. You seem like a god guy.


70 posted on 05/25/2016 10:56:50 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

You seem like a god guy.....Dear god: Deliver me. Someplace.


71 posted on 05/25/2016 11:00:02 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: sargon

I meant good guy.

Sorry for the typo.


72 posted on 05/25/2016 11:01:15 AM PDT by detective
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To: Safetgiver

“You seem like a god guy.....Dear god: Deliver me. Someplace.”

LOL.

Sorry for the typo. I meant good guy.


73 posted on 05/25/2016 11:02:08 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Hell, I knew. It was just appropriate.


74 posted on 05/25/2016 11:08:59 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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