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Tom Brady suspended without pay for 4 games of regular season
CNBC ^ | 05.11.15

Posted on 05/11/2015 2:48:22 PM PDT by Perdogg

The National Football League suspended New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for four regular season games without pay "for conduct detrimental to the integrity of the NFL," the league announced Monday afternoon.

The league also announced that the team—which won the Super Bowl earlier this year—would be fined $1 million and forced to forfeit its first-round pick in the 2016 draft and its fourth-round selection in the 2017 draft.

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To: Perdogg

Great big stink stain on NE.


21 posted on 05/11/2015 3:08:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Perdogg
The NFL hierarchy have become nothing but the pawns of the MSM...........

There's a quick fix to this dastardly violation of NFL rules and that's to allow each team to inflate their footballs to whatever pressure they feel comfortable with.........

Go figure, a mere 2 lbs psi in a football has now side lined the best quarterback in the NFL for the number of games determined by the pussified NFL.........Sheesh!

22 posted on 05/11/2015 3:09:10 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (November 2016 shall be set aside as rodent removal month.)
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To: Veggie Todd

Didn’t cooperate and what he shared was inconsistent with other facts. In other words, he lied and obstructed.


23 posted on 05/11/2015 3:10:38 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Perdogg
So I guess Kraft won't be getting that apology from the league...
24 posted on 05/11/2015 3:13:20 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Veggie Todd
This should be overturned.

Doubtful. This is not a court of law. "Probably" is all the league needs. Especially considering his subsequent lack of cooperation with the investigation. Consider a flagrant personal foul. The league can suspend you for probably trying to take a guy's head off. You can insist it was unintentional, there may be no hard proof that it wasn't accidental. But "probably" is enough to declare a rule violation and levee punishment.
25 posted on 05/11/2015 3:13:31 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: fungoking

Lol. Joe Banner tweeted something similar.


26 posted on 05/11/2015 3:14:07 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Hot Tabasco
There's a quick fix to this dastardly violation of NFL rules and that's to allow each team to inflate their footballs to whatever pressure they feel comfortable with.........

I disagree with that fix. All game-used balls should be inflated to the same pressure and controlled by the officiating crew at all times.
27 posted on 05/11/2015 3:16:19 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Perdogg

This is obviously the most important story of the 21st Century.


28 posted on 05/11/2015 3:16:46 PM PDT by GT1945 (islim is a devil worshipping cult)
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To: Perdogg
...integrity of the NFL...


29 posted on 05/11/2015 3:22:51 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: Perdogg

I’m guessing that Brady likes the balls inflated to the minimum permissible and the “deflated” was sloppy in this effort. Further, also guessing that the penalty will not survive an appeal.


30 posted on 05/11/2015 3:23:48 PM PDT by RAY (God Bless the USA!)
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To: VRWCarea51
You may not like the ruling, but Goodell isn't going to "get his ass handed to him" under any circumstances. The NFL's bylaws and the collective bargaining agreement with the NFLPA give the commissioner a lot of latitude in disciplinary measures.

Interestingly, I don't think this ruling even came from the commissioner directly, but from the league's disciplinary office.

31 posted on 05/11/2015 3:25:11 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: mmichaels1970

Any labor contact I ever came across has in
It a general clause saying Management agrees not to act in an arbitrary or capricious manner in enacting the Contract.

The fact that 3 of 4 Colt balls tested failed to be in compliance and no action taken but one from the Patriots fails and leads to suspensions is a compelling fact an Arbitrator in will hear.

Godell loses an appeal by Brady.


32 posted on 05/11/2015 3:30:06 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Alberta's Child

Ray Rice says Okee Dokee.


33 posted on 05/11/2015 3:31:32 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: VRWCarea51

I can see a possible reduction, unlikely to me. But not a complete overturn. As someone else said, the NFL CBA allows the commissioner a lot of latitude.


34 posted on 05/11/2015 3:33:02 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Vermont Lt

Yup with the 4 games Brady won’t play until October 18th and the game will be with the Colts.


35 posted on 05/11/2015 3:34:24 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: VRWCarea51

Goodell won the Ray Rice thing. People think the judge scolded him, but they aren’t seeing the long game. Goodell knew that whenever he reinstated Rice it would be “too soon” to some people (some very loud people), so he didn’t bother to reinstate him. Eventually a judge (woman judge no less, Goodell leads a charmed life) reinstated Rice, thus taking it out of Goodell’s hands, and nobody can blame him for the punishment being too light. And meanwhile Rice is not currently signed with any team. Every chip fell the perfect way for Goodell.


36 posted on 05/11/2015 3:37:06 PM PDT by discostu (Bobby, I'm sorry you have a head like a potato.)
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To: Perdogg

I hereby predict that the range of opinion will demand either no penalty and an apology from Patriot fans to Patriot haters wanting a minimum of the “Pete Rose” penalty for both Brady and Belichick (The hard core will want to go further considering even a firing squad as too humane).


37 posted on 05/11/2015 3:39:18 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Perdogg

Only 4 games? Sean Payton was suspended for a year. I guess if Aaron Rogers did something like that he be suspended for two years.


38 posted on 05/11/2015 3:39:53 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: discostu; VRWCarea51
That's exactly right. Goodell's original suspension was for two games, and it was later extended under public/political pressure.

Goodell had no interest in suspending Ray Rice indefinitely.

39 posted on 05/11/2015 3:41:50 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: tcrlaf

Was there any proof that Brady did it or knew about it?


40 posted on 05/11/2015 3:41:59 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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