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Report: Patriots 'caught by surprise' by Antonio Brown rape accusation
sports.yahoo ^ | 09/10/2019 | Jack Baer

Posted on 09/11/2019 5:30:30 AM PDT by mplc51

The New England Patriots were reportedly unaware that Antonio Brown was facing sexual assault and rape accusations when the team signed him last week, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. With Brown’s signing announced and the star wideout scheduled to begin practice with the team on Wednesday, the Patriots are now deciding how to proceed. The team released a statement late Tuesday night confirming it is aware of the lawsuit and that the NFL will be investigating the matter.

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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I heard there isn’t one, but am not paying close attention.


21 posted on 09/11/2019 5:45:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: txrefugee

Not really. She had a larger big pay check when he was still a Oakland Raider. He had a much larger chunk of change there, many, many more millions in that contract if he had stayed part of that team.


22 posted on 09/11/2019 5:46:17 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are living in the Last Days. The Bible says so, and I believe it!! Know Him now!!)
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To: cgbg
From 2018...

LOVERRO: Lanier, NFL once again let down female fanbase

23 posted on 09/11/2019 5:46:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: RetiredArmy

I find it hard to believe that there are not escape clauses for the Patriots in these contracts.

Think about it logically—if one day after signing the guy was arrested for a mass murder and convicted—you really believe the Pats would have to pay the full contract?

I doubt it—but we will see.


24 posted on 09/11/2019 5:47:49 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: cgbg

There’s verbiage in the contract. Conduct detrimental/unbecoming to the league. But since the Pats hired the guy in the first place, how likely are they to exercise that?


25 posted on 09/11/2019 5:51:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: mewzilla

Note to the NFL: If you’d stop hiring degenerates, that would solve a lot of your problems.


26 posted on 09/11/2019 5:52:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: PGR88

You are right. All of those millions of dollars are driving them crazy. Good thing I was never afflicted with wealth.


27 posted on 09/11/2019 5:56:50 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: mewzilla
Sports Illustrated says of NFL hiring of Lanier — "a highly-respected figure in law enforcement who just happened to be a woman".

There is a back-story here. Lanier was a _horrible_ affirmative action police chief in DC. The city was in all out Ferguson Effect mode. Cop morale was at rock bottom, because they knew that when the chips were down she would support the criminals. Cops would hear shots fired outside their precinct window and would sit and wait to give the perps time to get out of harms way. In one famous incident filmed on video a convenience store clerk called the local precinct for help while thugs beat him up and started trashing the store--for forty five minutes! The police station was five minutes away, and the cops intentionally waited a full hour before showing up...

Lanier is a NFL virtue signaling affirmative action joke who could barely find a ladies room in the building. (Maybe that _was_ part of the problem in this case, but the Pats should not have been stupid enough to rely on her--they had to know her _real_ story.)
28 posted on 09/11/2019 5:58:18 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: mplc51

If this guy worked for me I would not change his employment status unless it became a criminal issue with DA and police involved. Even then maybe not unless he was convicted. Being a football player is no different than any other employment situation, and he should be presumed innocent.

Having said that, Brown is obviously a low form of life with no values. He uses people. I would not be sorry to see him cut from the team. Head and heart conflict there I know.


29 posted on 09/11/2019 5:58:44 AM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: mplc51
The New England Patriots were reportedly unaware that Antonio Brown was facing sexual assault and rape accusations when the team signed him last week, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Yeah right. Belichick is never caught by surprise. By anything.

30 posted on 09/11/2019 6:04:10 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Titus-Maximus
"Sounds like a shakedown. No police report. Victim continued follow-up with alleged rapist for investment in business venture....Victim accompanies alleged rapist to strip clubs after so called rapes."

Sound like they are both nut-jobs - probably deserve each other.

31 posted on 09/11/2019 6:04:46 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: mewzilla

Antonio Brown is crazy for sure but this looks like a ‘money grab’. I do fault most superstar athletes getting entangled with these women who looks good to them but obviously come from the other side of the street looking for payouts. If you have all of that money it’s going to attract flies


32 posted on 09/11/2019 6:05:21 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: setter
She was raped on 3 different occasions?

And filed a civil suit without EVER making a criminal complaint?

A caller to local sports radio tried to point that out this morning, and was swiftly smacked-down by the uber-PC host.


33 posted on 09/11/2019 6:10:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: mplc51

Upon leaving Susie Wong’s Happy Ending Emporium, Patriots owner Bob Kraft was heard saying, “ maybe I misunderstood when AB said he wanted to make a come back in New England.”


34 posted on 09/11/2019 6:10:53 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: mplc51

After viewing the game last Sunday when the Patriots killed the Steelers, I would think they are re-thinking the wisdom of signing brown. Given the talent I saw on the field last Sunday, I would ask “Who Needs Him?”.


35 posted on 09/11/2019 6:12:19 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: nikos1121

This guy’s actions of late are disturbing, and IMO suggest he’s got some situational mental disorder, or drugs or both.


That was my impression at first but now I think the AB drama was mostly contrived to get a chance to sign with the Patriots.


36 posted on 09/11/2019 6:12:57 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Patriots just gave him 9 million signing bonus?


37 posted on 09/11/2019 6:13:24 AM PDT by mplc51
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To: mplc51

Wonder if the Pats had time to take out “incident” insurance...


38 posted on 09/11/2019 6:14:13 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: setter

I think the point you raise is a very good one but, in and of itself, I don’t think it’s determinative.

Just like a man and his wife, HE can’t FORCE her to engage in intercourse. In most states, that’s a big PERIOD...….meaning no matter WHAT she did.....he can’t force her. So her CIVIL lawsuit should TURN on FORCE.

It’s a civil suit. So, I hope she get’s a Take Nothing judgment or a hundred bucks! She majorily contributed to these incidents, that’s pretty plain.

As for him, I hope he get’s fired for embarrassing his team. There’s a clause in his contract allowing that. I hope the Patriots use it.

Most of all, I think these gals should start having to SHARE in the responsibility for allegedly “unwanted” sex.


39 posted on 09/11/2019 6:20:37 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: mplc51
This is a joke, right? Onion? Babylon Bee?

This guy is supposed to have raped this gal three separate times between 2017 and 2018 and she never reported it to the police, never quit as his trainer but then decides to go public with it and cooperate with any NFL investigation, only two days after he signs a contract worth $20 million?

Yeah, that sounds reasonable. /sarc/

Look it up in the dictionary folks. It's called a gold digger.

40 posted on 09/11/2019 6:21:46 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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