Does anyone seriously believe that Goodell would have gone to Gillette if Brady had lost yesterday and the suspension was upheld?
This is a a battle between two unlikables. An organization with a cheating mentality and a commissioner who offers many reasons to dislike him. He’s a prototypical RINO in political terms who has cow towed to every special interests group possible and wussified the league. He also was given carte blanche to discipline but the court system has now completely overstepped to the same level he has been accused of in recent years.
Having him in foxboro that day would in fact be another mark on the league. He probably should take his medicine, though,and go simply to follow recent protocol with these Thursday games.
Arguments about deflated footballs seem so utterly petty when Americans are going to prison for their Christian beliefs.
What I find striking about this is that the NFL considers loss of evidence PROOF of a crime.
And here we have the former SoS going to heroic efforts to destroy evidence but we are supposed to believe she is innocent as the wind driven snow.
So we expect higher standards of game players than we do of people running the country.
I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about this aspect of this.
I couldn’t agree more. Any name from the phone book could do as a good a job. And for a lot less money
Judge Berman must have drafted Brady in his fantasy football league. The sad part about this entire thing is that Brady - a rich pretty boy, gets away with cheating, but the $60,000 per year equipment manager looses his job for only doing what he was asked to do. There is no doubt in my mind that Brady not only knew about it, but made the request, on his cell phone which, conveniently came up damaged.....
{snicker}
Who’dathunk’it that Goodell needed actual evidence to suspend a player?
‘Likely’ just isn’t enough.
Maybe, Goodell will be watching via a big screen TV.
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Too bad the judge won’t rule on some real issues — like ala carte cable TV and such.
Sore loser. Makes it seem like it was personal for Goodell.
Agreed.
It’s the right move. Way too much attention would be on him if he was there. Let the game happen with as little mention of this silliness as possible.
Goodell tried to take on the big boys and got his pee-pee whacked.
No hate like Brady hate....it’s toxic.