Tom Brady's suspension overturned by judge

story from the Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/sports/football/judge-overturns-tom-bradys-suspension-deflategate-patriots.html?_r=0

Good - I can start him on my fantasy team.

The rotisserie leagues are in chaos!

Sark it, Goodell. You lose again.

Dopers and cheaters always win. Yea!

Did anyone read this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/how-roger-goodell-became-the-most-powerful-man-in-american-sports/2015/09/02/3eb69baa-50d8-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html

It talks about how Goodell has been sucking up to the owners for almost 35 years.

One franchise owner said that despite the challenges of the past year, there is “universal support” for Goodell as commissioner. “Overall,” the owner said, “everybody thinks he’s doing a very good job in a very, very challenging environment.”

Other than the 30 owners, not named Kraft, does anyone think he is doing a good job?

aosh13784hcxa^$# wrote:

Other than the 30 owners, not named Kraft, does anyone think he is doing a good job?

Why would you or I or anyone else care enough to have an opinion on this?

The NFL exists for the kids. Ever heard of NFL Cares?

whooo cares wrote:

Why would you or I or anyone else care enough to have an opinion on this?

Why would you care enough to post on this thread?

I told you months ago this farce was just a big advertising scheme to kokblock the NBA and keep the sheeple talking about the NFL. No surprise some big "news" always came out the day before a big nba game. No surprise this happened to be overturned just before the season started. Pro sports has become a joke as they try to keep interest for the billions in tv contracts.

I told you months ago this farce was just a big advertising scheme to kokblock the NBA and keep the sheeple talking about the NFL. No surprise some big "news" always came out the day before a big nba game. No surprise this happened to be overturned just before the season started. Pro sports has become a joke as they try to keep interest for the billions in tv contracts.

It's not too often that rich, good-looking celebs pay the price when they break the rules.

No surprise here. It's unjust to punish anyone for anything in 'Murikah today.

26.2 + a bit more wrote:

It's not too often that rich, good-looking celebs pay the price when they break the rules.

If it was anyone else, the suspension never would have been put in place in the first place. Where in the NFL's rules does it state that a four game suspension is the punishment for playing with under-inflated balls?

He (or his team) possibly committed a penalty by using balls that weren't inflated to the standard. The refs should have thrown a flag and penalized them during the game, and that should have been the end of it. If the refs missed the call, that's water under the bridge just like a thousand other calls that the refs miss every game.

A great lesson for the kids.

"hey kids, if you cheat, just deny deny deny, and soon you can take that with you and get away with it..."

I'll take Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Dan Marino

Any day over the cheating Brady and the cheating Patriots

The numerous incidents of being caught cheating, can't all be wrong.

A better lesson for the kids is if you're falsely accused of something, fight back.

cheaters wrote:

A great lesson for the kids.

"hey kids, if you cheat, just deny deny deny, and soon you can take that with you and get away with it..."

I'll take Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Dan Marino

Any day over the cheating Brady and the cheating Patriots

The numerous incidents of being caught cheating, can't all be wrong.

Actually, yes, they can.

And how about this as a lesson for the kids. If someone beats you, rather than do anything to improve yourself for next time, try whining and complaining about how they must be cheating.

I'm still trying to understand if there is any actual proof that Brady or the Patriots intentionally deflated footballs before the Indy game.

Although the judge's ruling wasn't about guilt or innocence regarding deflated footballs, his questioning of the NFL's lawyers made it clear that he was also having trouble with the NFL's "evidence" of cheating.

As a Broncos fan, I'm certainly not a Pats fanboy, so I'm truly interested in hearing/reading other opinions based on facts and evidence. Having read both the Wells' report and the Patriot's response, I am not convinced that the balls were intentionally deflated. To those that are convinced Brady cheated, what am I missing? And please provide links, not opinions or articles that are nothing more than conjecture.

There is NO EVIDENCE. The refs showed up at the game with several gauges that gave different readings. None of the gauges had been calibrated, as far as we know, ever.

Given how confused everyone was with when and how to measure football pressure in reguards to air temperature and rain, it is obvious that the refs and the NFL office have never understood this rule.

We also know that the NFL office knew ahead of time that the Pats were going to be accused during the game. To show up at a game knowing nothing about a rule that you knew was going to be singled out for an accusation is hard to understand.

A month or two later, when it became obvious that the NFL office knew nothing about the rule and that they had no evidence that even could be used to list the pressures of the footballs before, during or after the game but were still marching forward, their incompetence should be the basis for a huge defamation of character suit by Brady and Kraft.