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Tom Brady Suspended 4 Games, Pats Lose 1st Round Pick In 2016 and 4th In 2017, Team Fined $1 million
ESPN ^ | 2 minutes ago | Adam Schefter

Posted on 05/11/2015 2:35:44 PM PDT by drewh

Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter · 2m 2 minutes ago Filed to ESPN: Tom Brady suspended four games, Pats lose 1st round pick in 2016 and a 4th in 2017, and team fined $1 million, per source:


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: cheaters; connecticut; espn; massachusetts; newengland; newenglandpatriots; nfl; patriots; tombrady
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To: Kozak

Of course he would. Hes an Obamabot.


41 posted on 05/11/2015 2:57:34 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Too light on the punishment. The Patriots have demonstrated a pattern of cheating over the years under Belichick. Belichick should have been sat for a year they way Sean Payton was in New Orleans. Brady should have been benched at least 8 games and the fine should have been $10 million.

Can't say I disagree. I guess Belichick didn't learn anything after the Patriots were fined half a mil for the videotaping scandal.

42 posted on 05/11/2015 2:58:54 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: HereInTheHeartland
I BELIEVE that when possession changes so does the ball since these stories talk about 'x' number of footballs being available for the team / quarterback.
43 posted on 05/11/2015 2:58:56 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: GeronL

“They have no evidence Brady did anything do they?”

Refusal to cooperate and texts on his cell phone that he refused to provide.

Sounds like guilt to me. ;-)


44 posted on 05/11/2015 2:59:57 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows h to run my life better than I do?)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
The Patriots have demonstrated a pattern of cheating over the years under Belichick(going back to the 70s). Belichick should have been sat for a year they way Sean Payton was in New Orleans. Brady should have been benched at least 8 games and the fine should have been $10 million.

IMO they can't fine the Patriots enough. A sleazy team for decades.

45 posted on 05/11/2015 3:01:19 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Kazan

All I know for certain is the timing of the events, the lack of actual proof beyond he said/she said and the fact that people in power either serve Obama’s whims or have their companies and themselves audited.

I have no reason to think that the man that forced a useless gay player on the NFL did so because he thought gays would suddenly start buying season tickets. I have no reason to believe therefore that this too was outside the established pattern of the NFL.


46 posted on 05/11/2015 3:01:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Ronald_Magnus

Sorry the pick stands.
LOL


47 posted on 05/11/2015 3:05:21 PM PDT by Kozak (Walker / Cruz 2016 or Cruz/ Walker 2016 Either one is good...)
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To: Kazan; SES1066

“You’re wrong. Each team provides and plays with their own balls.”

Ok; got it. I thought the host team for some reason provided them for both sides.

But I don’t own a television!


48 posted on 05/11/2015 3:06:11 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

For a report that has to use the word ‘probable’? You need incontrovertible evidence to render a judgment like that. Why didn’t the league investigate the 4 INDY footballs that were below spec? Why does the report allege a man could deflate 12 balls in 100 seconds but a room full of refs could only check 4 Indy balls in 12 minutes? Why was Wells hired, as a so called independent investigator, when he has strong connections to the NFL? Prediction: Brady appeals and he is suspended for one game because he did not completely cooperate with the league, not because he cheated.


49 posted on 05/11/2015 3:10:37 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: TexasGator

Hyper inflated balls? The allegations were about the game vs Indy, two weeks earlier, when both teams played the first half with deflated balls.


50 posted on 05/11/2015 3:12:15 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: Kazan

And both teams played with deflated balls.


51 posted on 05/11/2015 3:12:53 PM PDT by DHerion
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To: drewh

Rush will spend 2.9 hours on this tomorrow.


52 posted on 05/11/2015 3:13:46 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: drewh

The NFL should have suspended Brady 8 games because he’s going to appeal the suspension and the league will cut it in half like they always do. Bill Belichick should get at least a 6 game suspension.


53 posted on 05/11/2015 3:16:38 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: drewh

I saw the AFC Championship game the Patriots played against the Indianapolis Colts where the score ended up 45-7. These ‘deflated footballs’ tested 2psi under the NFL limit, folks. This is not some extraordinary advantage that caused the final score to end up 45-7.

Colts QB Andrew Luck threw two interceptions — one of them to Darrelle Revis. You’ve got to be out of your mind to throw near Revis in a championship game. The hell you think was going to happen there?

Tom Brady could have been throwing plastic frisbees, wooden croquet balls, or genuine turkey head badminton birds in that game and the score wouldn’t have been much different. The Colts looked like a sack of crap in the second half of that game.


54 posted on 05/11/2015 3:16:50 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Norm Lenhart

It’s almost like the NFL loves to have NFL stuff leading the headlines in the middle of May or something.

The way the NFL has the ball protocol set up leads one to suspect that they don’t really care too much, especially as any edge would go to offense. The NFL is tremendously successful in attracting huge numbers of casual, lowest denominator fans. And to those fans, scoring = excitement.

Freegards


55 posted on 05/11/2015 3:23:00 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
“They have no evidence Brady did anything do they?” Refusal to cooperate and texts on his cell phone that he refused to provide.

Yes, see the CNBC article:

Tom Brady suspended without pay for 4 games of regular season

56 posted on 05/11/2015 3:24:49 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016? If you have a 24-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good!)
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To: Ransomed

“lowest denominator fans”

There’s a difference? ;)


57 posted on 05/11/2015 3:25:17 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: drewh

kangaroo court serves up verdict with no proof of guilt


58 posted on 05/11/2015 3:28:00 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: dead

I thought you describing the Clinton’s....


59 posted on 05/11/2015 3:29:21 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: Vinnie

So they were a sleazy team lets say 15 or 20 years ago when they were 1-15 or 2-14.Get your facts straight or just make them up as you go.


60 posted on 05/11/2015 3:31:02 PM PDT by freedomtrail (EEOC- Eventual Elimination Of Caucasians)
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