Snow Plow Incident”
So you think Tom Brady should be subject to fraudulent charges and suspended because of the Snow Plow Incident.
I get it. You are so worked up over the Snow Plow Incident that you hate Tom Brady and want to see him suspended based on fraudulent charges.
Read the article. Read what the distinguished scientists say. There was no tampering. The charges are completely fraudulent.
I know decisions are not always fair. Brady is wealthy with a beautiful and successful wife. He will get over this. He will be fine.
Goodell is such a slime ball. He has been unfair to other players too. Adrien Paterson is one example. I hope that the decision is overturned and that Goodell is forced to admit he was dishonest.
With Sargon, the Snow Plow game has been a source of irritation for many decades. The simple fact of the matter is, on that day, and in that game, young Ron Meyers simply out-coached Don Shula, and Miami lost the game.
If what Mark Henderson did was illegal, the league sure didn't respond that way. In fact, the league didn't do anything.
The simple fact of the matter is, the Dolphins (and Shula, for that matter) couldn't have cared less about anything involving the Patriots, as was shown when the Dolphins diligently ran up the score on the way to a 52-0 shellacking. (I won the pool at work that week, thanks to that score.)
They had a great team back in the early 70s who had little trouble dispatching the league's weak sisters during a suspiciously soft schedule. But you can't take anything away from them. They beat whoever the league put in front of them, and that's what you're supposed to do.
But still, it's been 45 years...
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I didn't raise this accusation. Players from multiple other teams did, and the text messages that I've seen support the notion that something was going on.
Combine that with Tom Brady's lack of cooperation, and the fact that the owners have stood firmly behind Goodell's decision, and, like I said, Brady will lose this pissing contest every time.
And the only reason I cited the Snow Plow Incident is to place it in the historical pantheon of Patriot cheating. It was one of the earliest incidents, but there was at least one other one that occurred before deflate-gate.
Against that backdrop, I have no problem with Goodell's conclusion, and indeed I'm highly skeptical that there was "nothing to see here, folks". If that were really the case, the owners would have directed Goodell to be more lenient long ago.
Again, I ask: what is the benefit of the NFL owners, through the commissioners office, going on a "witch hunt", if there was nothing there?
The league obviously concluded otherwise, and so did the appellate panel of judges, albeit not unanimously, determine that the commissioner was entirely within his rights to impose the suspension.
So you can argue that the suspension wasn't fair, or wasn't based on the facts of the case, but I don't see how anyone can argue that the commissioner doesn't have the near-absolute right to discipline employees. That's socialist nonsense.
Vote Trump, like Tom Brady!