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Hahahahahahahahaha man, I underestimated the NFL. That’s a biggie.
4 game suspension – ooooh nice
2016 1st rounder – On par with Spygate, seems fair
2017 4th rounder – lol that’s kinda random
(does Dr. Evil Impression) 1 MILLION DOLLARS – okay, that’s actually a big fine even if it still won’t make a dent
I think a lot of the outrage over the extent of the punishment is by people who aren’t taking into account that this is the second offense. I was pretty stunned by the extent of it but mostly because I didn’t think the NFL had the balls. Spygate was a first rounder, 500k fine for Belichick and 250k for the Pats. This is twice the dollars and an extra pick, honestly it kind of makes sense. The only real new part is the suspension, which I think mostly resulted from Tom’s attempts to cover up and lie about it. The lies in his press conference, then he refused to give investigators his phone. I thought the phone thing was fishy but not unreasonable, but when I found out he basically had permission to offer them only parts of his phone, that he could effectively censor what he wanted, and he still denied it. Ooof. Those are the actions of someone who has something to hide and thinks he’s gonna get away with it.
So honestly, I’m okay with the punishment. It makes more sense than it initially appears to, at least for me. A lot of haters think the NFL was too weak, that this called for an entire season off, to which I can just laugh. Seriously? A year for this? Are you nuts? Second offense or not, cheating or not, these are deflated balls. This isn’t a bounty system to injure players for profit. These are saggy balls. It’s not worth a year off. I won’t comment on Patriots fans who are still convinced they are being persecuted and are convinced that Kraft, Brady and Belichick are golden gods who simply cannot do anything wrong (Which is funny, because they usually embrace the EVIL EMPIRE jokes when they aren’t being accused of anything). Patriot fan tears are the best part of this whole stupid mess and it’s delightful. For the rest of eternity we will get to make cheater jokes to forever torment them. Brady will forever have doubters, even if he is still one of the best ever. He’s just not unquestionably one the best ever anymore, because now we all have questions.
Edit: This might be conspiratorial of me, but part of me wonders if the NFL came down so hard as a future negotiation tactic. If they bring a big punishment now, and the Patriots win the appeal process, the NFL can reduce to punishment but it’ll still be a pretty big punishment because it started so high.
Okay. I’ve been a fan of yours for a long time. This is the first time, though, that I’ve been motivated to actually donate– not just to you, but ever, to a webcomic. The gif and the ring threw me so far over the top. Can’t until next pay-day, but man. Thank-you. I’ve needed a laugh for a long while, and you delivered.
The Brady/Manning argument has a new leaf. I get to say that Peyton never cheated.
The Brady/Manning argument has a new leaf. I get to say that Peyton never cheated.
You mean he’s just better at not getting caught than Brady is, right?
HGH
Dave, mate, I can always count on you to nail things.
At first I thought the punishment was a bit severe, but I realize it has to be. The first time was a relative slap on the wrist. We can use all the metaphors we want but the point is the Patriots keep finding ways to break the rules and the punishment needs to be severe enough that other teams learn the lesson and don’t try anything. Also, the Patriots themselves need to learn that they need to play fair and not try and cheat.
As a Pats fan, it’s still ultra hilarious, Sacrifice Fresno should still be on the table.
Yeah, I’m Biased but I don’t think Brady cheated. I mean page forty of the wells report should prove he’s innocent when he saw rule 2 but whatever. Also Brady is the best ever and that can’t be denied will anyone care about Deflategate in a few years time? No.
maybe not but every not-pats fan everywhere will make their life’s goal to call the pats cheaters at every available opportunity
Yeah, my Giants friend already is.
“Also Brady is the best ever and that can’t be denied”
John Unitas and Joe Montana would like a few words with you.
Brady has the better stats than Montana as well as the amount of superbowls. Unitas is good too but not the same amount of championships. I’m biased in this as well though. I think Brady is better than both, also Brady didn’t have Rice or his receivers using Stickum.
Lower winning percentage in those Superbowls though. Brady’s 4/6, Joe’s 4/4. Same number of MVPs, same number of SB MVPs. Joe’s stats aren’t as good, but there’s three very good reasons for that:
1. The era played in. Montana and his receivers were hit harder, had to fight more, and faced more aggressive defenders who were allowed to maul receivers by comparison to today. Joe Flacco has comparable stats through seven seasons to Montana, the slanting of rules to favor passing offense right now obfuscates things. Montana’s numbers have to be compared to other quarterbacks of the time like Fouts, Theismann, Jaworski, Marino, and McMahon in order to understand his level of play properly. Statistics need context.
2. Modern times. Tom has had access to the kind of training, equipment, gameplanning, technological assistance, etc. that Montana could’ve only dreamed of playing football around 20-30 years earlier. Just like if you went back in time, took Jim Brown, brought him to 2015, and let him use modern technology, training, etc., he would probably embarrass most running backs, if you gave Joe Montana the kind of tools Brady has had, he would in all likelihood be as good if not better.
There’s also the influence and legacy. Tom Brady is a pocket-passer with limited athleticism who knows how to escape pressure with savvy and small maneuvers while throwing short west-coast passes from the pocket. Though Montana was far more athletic than Brady(Not hating, but Montana ran an acceptable 4.7 40. Brady ran 5.3. The better athlete is clear), the description fits the two fairly interchangeably otherwise. Montana’s excellence allowed the style that made Tom Brady a legend to be viable. Without Montana, there’s no Brady. Influence on the game is one of the most important things to judge when it comes to “best ever” discussions, and for all we know in thirty years we’ll look back at Brady’s legacy as changing the game, but until the dust settles, Tom’s legacy is still unsettled while Joe’s legacy as the herald of the west-coast offense is set in stone.
As for Unitas, he only has one less championship(’58, ’59, ’70) if you count non-superbowl championship titles, which makes sense because otherwise every pre-merger legend is unfairly disadvantaged. To me, only having three rings instead of four is offset by having four MVPs instead of two. the influence card becomes even more important here, too. Pocket passing was a thing, but it wasn’t until Unitas and the Colts started winning championships that the stand-up pocket passer really became what we know it as today. Without that, football as we know it is a completely different game.
Don’t get me wrong, Brady is inarguably top-three all-time as far as I’m concerned, even if, for the sake of the argument, we assume he really did cheat. And considering, again, his legacy and influence on the game have yet to really be seen and settled and decided, there’s a very real chance I’ll be nodding in agreement in ten years. But right now, Unitas and Montana are above him for me. Still damn good company.
This one always confuses me. 4/6 is worse than 4/4? So making it to the Superbowl and losing is less impressive than not making it at all? Come on.
Stats can’t be compared across eras. But those are three of the four guys I’d put in contention for GOAT. The fourth being Otto Graham.
If Brady played in the same era as Montana or Unitas, he would be the most athletic QB in the league. By todays standards he is slow, 25+ years ago he would have been an elite athlete.
Dave,
All of this was amazing. I particularly liked the asterisk superbowl ring! Very well done. I think the nfl has been pretty accurate with it’s punishments this offseason with Hardy, the Falcons, and now the Patriots. Maybe Goodell is trying to turn it around?
First off, I don’t like the Patriots and Tom Brady can go to Hell. That being said the NFL got it wrong, again. Brady deserves to take a big hit for lying, having saggy balls, and just being a pain in the ass in general, but I don’t understand why the Patriots are being punished in THIS case. One of the biggest gripes about the Wells Report was that fact that the NFL didn’t hire a non partial firm to lead the investigation. Their own guys didn’t find the Patriots guilty of any wrong doing, yet the NFL still delivered a gut punch to the team? The NFL just doesn’t make any sense.
You should make a comic about how Goodell and the NFL come up with their punishments (if you haven’t already). Goodell must be looking to a Magic 8-ball every time he has to make a big decision.
I’m surprised the Pats got the huge fine and not Brady individually (which I think is unfair), and the later draft pick will likely get given back on appeal, but you can’t divorce what Brady did from the team itself. Brady is a member of the Patriots. The people who deflated the balls were members of the Patriots organization. The main point to everything though, is that Brady’s (and the Deflator’s) actions directly impacted the Patriots team as a whole. It didn’t just help Brady, it helped the team. So the team should suffer some of the consequence because they directly benefited from the cheating.
The Falcons lost a draft pick for the actions of a couple of people in the booth, because even though it was just one person’s choice, the team benefited. Part of the point of punishment is to deter future punishments, and one way to do that is to make a larger group suffer the consequences of one person who directly affects the on-field product. It might not sound fair at first, but now other teams are likely to take note and police themselves better so they also don’t have to suffer the consequences of a couple of individuals.
If the crime benefits the whole team, the whole team should suffer at least some impact for allowing it to happen. You might disagree with how much team punishment is fair, which is a completely fair statement, but the Pats taking some of the hit makes sense.
The actions of a couple of anonymous low-level employees should not cost any organization a first round pick.
Agreed. That’s basically the main thing that bugs me about the punishment.
Well, the Patriots also helped stifle the investigation after Wells found McNally’s texts, Wells went to the team and said it was very important to interview him a second time and the Patriots repeatedly denied it. Compare this to the Falcons who came straight out and admitted everything.
Also Brady isn’t a low level employee.
My guess is that Brady appeals, and the arbiter knocks it down to 2 games. And yes, that 4th round pick is just bizarre.
On another note, that’s a lot of Sexy Rexy for one state, even CA. Are you sure they can handle that?
Ayup. That’s not conspiratorial, that’s bedrock negotiating tactics.
I’m not sure the Mexican water is a viable solution, science lady.
I have a sneaking suspicion I may or may not be the intended target of that hovertext.
I mean, even your name screams “Well Actually…”
nah I just knew someone would bring it up
I’m on the fence about the suspension. I’m not a Patriots fan, nor am I a Tom Brady fan, but unless there is concrete evidence that he was for a fact involved, it’s hard to pin it on him. Yes, he surely knew. And I believe he was involved. But to punish him because it’s highly likely without solid evidence doesn’t seem quite right. I believe the situation needed to be handled in a way that sends a message. The NFL wants teams to play fair. But EVERY team in the league bends the rules to their advantage. No one team plays completely by the book. That’s the truth, whether we want to admit it or not. This punishment sends the message that if you compromise the integrity of the game, there will be consequences. As there should be. But the consequences should not include guilt by association. I’m not saying Brady isn’t guilty. Just that it hasn’t been undeniably proven.
This punishment wasn’t handed down by Goodell, it was handed down by Troy Vincent. When Brady appeals, it will go to Goodell. We will see if he has any stones by if he upholds the suspension or if he reduces it. The NFL’s statement is pretty clear on why they came down with the hammer. Repeat offenders and then the cover-up. And while it went unsaid, I’m sure that Kraft’s arrogance in demanding an apology did not help his cause at all. The Browns and Falcons got away with a slap in the wrist because they were first-time offenders, cooperated fully and they did not at any point defy the league. The Patriots went the opposite way. And honestly, they got off easy. I’m sure there’s Saints fans seething that Sean Payton got suspended an entire year for something he wasn’t in on just because it happened during his watch while Belichick got off scot free in the same circumstances.
Also, the NFL doesn’t need undeniable proof to punish. It’s not a criminal court. Preponderance of the evidence, i.e. more probable than not, is their standard. It is the standard used in civil litigation everywhere in the United States.
As a Saints fan, I wasn’t seething, but was certainly curious as to why Belichick wasn’t punished in any of this. At the same time, with what I stated before, it was hard to punish him without any evidence. If they suspend Sean Payton, surely Belichick could viably be held accountable as well. Applying the fact that the NFL doesn’t need undeniable proof and that he is a repeat offender, I would think Belichick would be punished before Brady. I just think the punishments would be more justified if they had real proof to show. I cannot in any way deny that the Saints had a bounty system in place. The evidence proved they did and even the most devout fans would be delusional to argue otherwise. When the news broke about that, I didn’t want to believe it. The problem with this suspension (I don’t disagree with the fine or the loss of draft picks) is that Brady and Patriot fans CAN point to his possible innocence. I, however, cannot defend the actions of my Saints.
Sean Payton referenced the bounty program in an email. He also warned others in the organization that an investigation was coming. The “ignorance is not an excuse” thing is a red herring. Payton was not ignorant.
Belichick was fully exonerated by the Wells report, as was Kraft, but they decided to dock draft picks anyway, because… reasons. That is utter bullshit.
The ‘second offense’ excuse is flimsy as fuck, too. They don’t throw the whole family in jail when the father gets a DUI and then eight years later the son gets caught shoplifting. Goodell/Vincent are totally capricious and irresponsible.
I would expect that Payton did know something. Wouldn’t be a very good coach otherwise. Belichick, I’m sure, knew something as well. The difference is Payton left a trail that showed he had some knowledge, regardless of how much. Overall, I think this whole ordeal is so blown out of proportion it’s not even worth thinking about anymore.
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My question is who exactly is a repeat offender? Brady had nothing to do with the Spygate scandal, and Belichick had nothing to do with the Deflating of footballs. I can understand the argument that they are responsible for everything that happens, but that doesn’t make them “offenders” as they were completely let off the hook by the Wells report.
This is the first time Brady is punished for doing something wrong (allegedly). And no one else in the organization knew about it. The suspension might be warranted, but the fine and loss of draft picks I feel are way over the top.
Who exactly is a repeat offender? The Patriots organisation, which explains the fine and draft picks.
By that logic they should’ve docked the Seahawks ALL their picks for having so many PED cheats on their team.
Total bullshit.
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lol
also, “ballghazi”? ffs
What else do you call a trumped-up ‘scandal’ that stupid people refuse to let go of?
It’s a shame PSI: New England never caught on. It’s by far the best name.
Damn, that’s a good one. A bit of a mouthful, though.
Surprised you made it this long without hearing this term, it’s just under Deflategate for popularity
For me it’s
1. Ballghazi
2. P.S.I.gate
3. Chernoball (thanks, Dave)
4. deflategate. It just sounds clumsy, like a rhyme a bad rapper came up with. In fact, I’m pretty sure Macklemore coined the term.
This site it pretty fun: http://yourteamcheats.com/
The repeat offender crap is such B.S. Putting a camera in the wrong location is right up there with the crime of the century, apparently.
http://yourteamcheats.com/what-is-spygate
The site is pretty silly for the most part, though I agree with the general message.
I recall my first exposure to the concept of cheating on football was that Simpsons episode ‘Lisa the Greek’
Homer: Who do you like in the afternoon games?
Lisa: Well, I like the 49ers because they’re pure of heart, Seattle because they’ve got something to prove, and the Raiders because they always cheat.
Commentator: (later) And on an extremely suspicious play, the Raiders win!
I love this website it shows that spygate and even deflategate are stupid.
That’s like saying you like the Phillip Morris site because it shows smoking is good for your throat. yourteamcheats.com is run by a Pats fan who makes no bones about it. There’s no rigor behind it, there’s extraordinarily laughable valuation. Remember kids: just because it’ son the internet, doesn’t mean it’s authoritative.
This site is the most biased thing ever (It was made by a Pats fan)
They not only insinuate that the Colts being a bad team was deliberate, but that tanking is cheating, which I’m not sure it even is. Then they give Suck for Luck 4 1/2 stars, more than he gives Spygate (Actual, literal cheating) and Deflategate (Also literal cheating) COMBINED. This guy is biased as shit and this whole site is a farce.
The guy who made this is the exact type of guy who’s tears are now supporting California’s water supply.
Of course it’s biased, but that’s the point. Everyone looks at “cheating” through their own biased lens. There are plenty of people who want to string up Brady right now but still think ol’ Sticky Jerry is beyond reproach. Steelers fans are probably being the loudest about all this, yet when you point out their own teams long, storied history of pumping their bodies full of foreign chemicals, they start screaming louder than guests at the Red Wedding.
Still, if you actually look at the website in-depth, it’s got a pretty heavy bias against the Patriots’ biggest rivals. It says the top 4 cheating teams in the NFL are the Broncos (Manning), the Steelers (More titles than the Pats, beat them every time), the Jets (hated division rivals), and the Colts (hated competitor). All teams that the Pats hate.
Also, for the cheating “achievements” part, 4 of the 6 achievements the Pats have involve “a scandal blown out of proportion”, “false accusation”, and “a minor, tiny offense”, and “most other teams do it”.
So, yeah. Horrendously biased.
Wait, the Steelers beat the Pats every time? News to me.
And lastly, he also continually mentions in almost every team scandal how Spygate was unfair and not cheating and Roger Goodell is an idiot because he hates the Pats.
-Spygate was cheating.
-Roger Goodell is an idiot in many ways, but not in the Spygate scandal.
-He doesn’t hate the Pats. Look at how he’s treated them over the last few years.
Whatever Spygate was, it was definitely blown out of proportion. Goodell’s mistake was the same as it has been in every other case – he punished based not on the proportionality of the offense, but the level of the public outcry. He claims that he wants to make an example of offenders, but anyone who’s ever studied crime statistics knows that that sort of approach doesn’t work.
As for how he’s treated the Patriots, all I have to do is point you to the handling of the Chargers’ stickum towels and the Vikings/Panthers ball heaters. One was a $20k fine, the other was a warning. Maybe his goal isn’t to specifically single out this organization, but you sure as shit can’t tell me that he hasn’t hammered them disproportionately.
” but anyone who’s ever studied crime statistics knows that that sort of approach is really complicated and has lots of conflicted datapoints that tend to verify whichever perspective the author and/or reader want the data to support.”
ftfy.
“he punished based not on the proportionality of the offense, but the level of the public outcry.”
Sorta. Goodell must hate the Colts right now, every bit as much as he hates Mangini. Goodell does NOT want this kind of scandal: this is not good for the NFL. he does NOT want these things to be shouted by a team to the media, because then he has to deal with it harshly. Especially when it’s a multiple offender. If Mangini had just gone to Goodell, it probably would have been 25k fine-land. But Mangini took it to the press. The Colts took it to the press. This means he couldn’t just assay punishment and let that be how the story broke. He had to be Hard-Mode McGee.
““People have paid me an exorbitant amount of money to prove you’re a child molester. These two guys who work for your company have text messages that imply that you might have some knowledge of child molestation, though it’s unclear to me the extent of that knowledge, or even if they’re joking. Please turn over your phone to prove to us that you are not a child molester. We will take great care to only look at the stuff in your phone that pertains to child molestation. Please pay no attention to the fact that we frequently leak information to the public, we assure you that your privacy will be protected.”
No, the investigators weren’t paid to prove anything; they were paid to find out what happened. This is a pretty important difference. The investigators were going to remove nothing from Brady’s phone, except what was relevant to the investigation, and Brady’s lawyers were granted sit-in privilege to verify that that is what happened. If the investigators DID leak anything after that, Brady’s counter-lawsuit against them would be so massive that he could just buy a team.
I get that you’re a fan of the Patriots, but really, this is just getting embarrassing. Your team cheated. On something stupid and silly, like with Spygate. Something “everyone does”. Doesn’t make it right, and it’s very much the public nature of being outed that makes the punishment so severe, but here we are. Don’t defend them: they’re guilty. Don’t defend Brady: he violated the NFL’s bylaws, and when it comes to the integrity of the game (not the NFL, mind you, the game), investigations must have FULL cooperation, or the NFL MUST assume the worst. Otherwise Vegas disappears from the picture, and if Vegas goes, Fantasy goes, and that’s a billion of the NFL’s annual pie– at least. It’s also BILLIONS from the next television contracts.
I second this.
Can I have some of those Colts apologist tears? Tanking a lost season to put yourself in a better position is absolutely cheating.
Oh, what? There’s no proof? Nothing concrete? Hmm.
Is it cheating in the sense that there is a rule against it? I mean, if Goodell wanted to arbitrarily dock the team their first rounder for ‘conduct detrimental to the game’ or something I think that would make sense, but is there a more specific rule that actually says you’re not allowed to intentionally lose?
There are rules in every sport against match fixing, usually pertaining to gambling, but i believe they would still apply in this case. You better believe that if it could been “proven”(by the NFL’s definition anyway), the hammer should have fallen and fallen hard.
Isn’t it besmirching the integrity of the game to not try your hardest to win every game?
People get upset at the end of every season when teams pull their starters are basically tank a game because it doesn’t affect the standings.
But a whole season? There may not be an explicit rule against it but it sure smells.
The Colts did not tank the season. Remember, up until halfway through the season they expected Peyton back sometime and hope that he would rescue the season. Then they were 0-8 with a coaching staff that was clearly not going to survive if they did not turn it around and players that needed to perform well to stay in Indy or play elsewhere. Suck for Luck was always just a fan thing. The coaching staff, front office, and the majority of the players of the 2011 Colts were let go, as one would expect after a lost season like that. If you think those guys would’ve cooperated with Irsay in tanking for Luck, and then not exposed him if he fired them, you’re out of mind. They had nothing to gain and everything to lose from cooperating with a season-long tankjob. Anyone who thinks it was an organisational decision is delusional.
Thank you thank you thank you. Suck for Luck gets brought up heavily in retrospect because it “worked out” but that season nothing was that certain whatsoever. The Colts actually put up some fights that year and everyone’s job was at risk. If the Colts tanked, I would have expected Caldwell to keep his job as well as some other staffers, but they had everything to lose all year. The Colts didn’t tank, they just started Curtis Painter.
Also, this solution to the water crisis is highly impractical, since the cost of transporting all those tears cross-country would’ve put an even bigger dent in the budget of a state that’s already underwater (um, figuratively speaking).
Making the Raiders and Chargers share a stadium would’ve been a much more elegant solution.
Thank you for giving Jim Tomsula a slice of the circle.
By the way
The phone thing is total bollox
“People have paid me an exorbitant amount of money to prove you’re a child molester. These two guys who work for your company have text messages that imply that you might have some knowledge of child molestation, though it’s unclear to me the extent of that knowledge, or even if they’re joking. Please turn over your phone to prove to us that you are not a child molester. We will take great care to only look at the stuff in your phone that pertains to child molestation. Please pay no attention to the fact that we frequently leak information to the public, we assure you that your privacy will be protected.”
See how insane that sounds?
As someone who openly loathes the Patriots, this is my problem with the whole thing. The NFL thinks they’re an arm of the U.S. justice system and to go against them like Brady did results in extremely ludicrous penalties.
Can I steal that asterisk ring pic?
Actually nevermind stealing it anyway.
Yo Dave I think I know someone who could make a real life version of that ring. If they can make onem, would you want one?
YES
Brady could have edited anything on his phone that would have proved wrong doing in Ballghazi, and although I’m a Dolphin fan, so my bias runs deep, but the suspension was just (keep in mind this was the second major offense; spygate).
If you call Spygate a “major offense”, what do you call the Dolphins buying audio of Brady’s defensive audibles through back channels in ’06? Good-natured horseplay?
I didn’t know Miami did that, so they to be docked too
I would call it “not a violation of the rules”. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2696227
The worst thing about Deflategate is that the NFL Facebook page’s comment sections look like a post apocalytic world. Everywhere, there are posts about “Crybaby” Brady, deflated footballs, and Patriots can’t win without cheating memes. It just all seems blown out of proportion.
Wait, so are you saying that Brady isn’t a crybaby and the Patriots can win without cheating?
Hey I know this has nothing to do with the actual joke, but most of California’s water consumption is because of agriculture and not because of inconspicuous personal consumption. That is the most offensive part of the comic. Besides that spot on 10/10
I like how I wrote Celebrity Dogs were using up most of the water and you still took that graph seriously
You know what’s the real crime here?
People always using the suffix “-gate” for every controversial topic. A very cheesy pun would be better.
I get it has to do with Watergate but jesus christ, can people be more clever?
all this deflate-gate non-sense is ridiculous and the NFL let it get blown out of proportion.
the rules clearly state that having improperly inflated footballs is an equipment violation that carries a $25,000 fine. They should have whacked them with a simple equipment violation and been done with the whole stupid thing, instead they decide to over-react, get all the patriot haters lined up with torches and pitchforks and go on a 3 month witch hunt.
this is Rogers fault for letting it get this far.
The Asterisk ring & the Brady gif are awesome!
Though, I believe the NFL came down pretty hard on Brady and the Patriots for the alleged violation of a rule which until the AFCCG, the NFL never really seemed to care about.
We still do not know what procedure the NFL crews follow for considering a game ball to be legal, is there a standard procedure that all the officiating crews follow? Is the PSI reading of each of the game balls logged before & after the game? What about all the cold weather games of the past, were the footballs in spec per the rule book?
Even after the NFL was warned, the officials still managed to first lose track of the balls (thanks to the Deflator), and then did not re-check them after they were found.
Allowing each QB to “prepare” their own footballs + Indifference/Incompetence in enforcement + Leaks through the media + Enforcer Rog = Ballghazi.
The networks probably love it, the ratings for the upcoming season should be through the roof.
Just to throw a monkey wrench in all of this(please read carefully) there is speculation that Brady asked the ball to be lowest regulated psi possible and that these two other employees decided to push it just a little bit farther because what Brady was giving them as compensation for the regulated psi was more than the work they were doing so they over did it……that is supposedly the case Brady is going to use in court/however they appeal and that’s it will get these ball boys removed …..in the end we know their will be a book on all of this from one of the ball boys and any way you look at it someone will be unhappy ….I just want goodel gone not for the Brady pat stuff but just because of all this bs he has put the NFL through….for what more money whatever sport is dieing I wanna see 80s football again more run game and bigger hits
THE END RANT OVER
I need new glasses, I swear the lady has a moustache.
This whole ordeal is insane…it has been proven by multiple persons that the “deflation” was caused by the friggin weather…it’s simple physics. Thank god it’s over though, unless the NFLPA keeps pushing…duh duh DUH!!!!!!