If you read the opinion, what's striking to me is how they knee-capped him and his advisors for destroying his phone. Basically, once you destroy evidence you are going to the lose all benefit of any doubt.
It's comical. Roger Goodell, of his own accord and completely out of nowhere decides--"I'm going to frame Tom Brady--one of the true superstars of the sport--and the Patriots--and then I'm going to manufacture false evidence and hire and investigator to confirm the fraud. For shits and giggles." Holee shit. _
You are right. Brady did not deflate the footballs--He directed his two flunkie patsie employees to deflate them. The NY appellate court was particularity bothered by the fact that Brady immediately destroyed his cell phone when word about the deflation came out. Brady is not only a cheater, but he is a liar who tried to cover it up by destroying his phone messages and texts to the patsie employees. If you REALLY think Brady did not cheat, can I sell you some swamp land in New England? You probably also think Bellichicken never spied on the jets, either.
It's pathetic these jerkoffs coming here continuing to proclaim innocence. Just go away. We're not sneaking in to their houses or workplaces to mock them--they don't have to show up here to try to defend the indefensible. He cheated, got caught then got caught trying to cover it up. Let it go Patsfags. Let it go. _
Are there still going to be appeals? Right. As I said the first time around, wake me when this fucker actually misses games.
Threads like these in here, are about the only place anyone actually thinks Brady did something wrong, and if I had to guess 5% or less in here actually believe it also. They just like that Goodell was pressured by loser owners to do a Nancy Kerrigan on TB12. Since then it's been a circus. And I know there isn't an impartial person anywhere who things TB12 did anything wrong here, so I'm not worried. They're handicapping the league, that's just pathetic.
Grogan, it doesn't matter if he did anything wrong. Kraft pushed for the commissioner to have this much power and it bit him in his ass. The entire appeals process was based around the Pats not liking the rules they helped implement and deciding they didn't have to follow them.
Yes, I'd definitely agree with this. It's their own fault. The entire agreement makes football less interesting, and admittedly I've only paid attention to it now. Football aside it's really interesting from a labor law perspective.
You nailed it exactly. Except he doesn't have to tamper with it, he can say what's evidence and what isn't and how much it's worth.
