Ed Hillel said:Tom Brady is the Lord himself of Michigan alum.
https://twitter.com/CoachJim4UM/status/599290554225164288
Ed Hillel said:Tom Brady is the Lord himself of Michigan alum.
There is no Rev said:Demanding that we reject the notion of excellence at the altar of equality is very, very bad for a people. Older traditions that embrace excellence get this--it's pretty much a staple of kung fu and samurai movies, even the ones that favor democracy. (For the truly geek, it's also the key theme in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.)
https://twitter.com/CoachJim4UM/status/599290554225164288E5 Yaz said:
JimBoSox9 said:It's funny, because Padre Joe cared more about ball PSI at that moment than the entirety of the NFL before the AFCCG.
There is no Rev said:weekly League of Evil cabal meetings
E5 Yaz said:
Well, that and Coach mocking one of his school's favorite sons
MentalDisabldLst said:
I preferred the Harrison Bergeron references in the early hours after the punishment was announced.
Vonnegut was one cynical dude, but boy did he get human nature.
Jettisoned said:Wasn't Harrison Bergeron supposed to be a parody of anti-communist dystopian novels?
Ferm Sheller said:There must be a fair number of people here who are old enough to have followed Jim's NFL career. Was it his signature move to get "hurt" on seemingly every play, make it look like he got destroyed and then struggle to get to his feet and stay in the game and then play the next play like nothing happened? Like some sort of tough guy hero?
I am old enough to remember Harbaugh but not Jim Brown. That's interesting, never heard that about him.Bergs said:
No, that was Jim Brown.
Ferm Sheller said:I am old enough to remember Harbaugh but not Jim Brown. That's interesting, never heard that about him.
Oh, Harbaugh did it for his own personal glory, IIRC. He was all about himself.Bergs said:
He did it strategically. Acted like he could barely get up, limped to the huddle, and then crushed motherfuckers. Lather, rinse, repeat.
well he is taking baby stepsEd Hillel said:There's about a 3% chance Jim won't get wrapped up in recruiting violations at some point. He is King Scumbag.
Yes, I realize that, but it would be great to have a prior recorded account of this.Doctor G said:One thing that I am sure is involved in context is that these guys probably adopted a lot of the locker room slang of the players whose jocks they were paid to sniff. Thus you have expressions like go to ESPN , deflate and Dorito Dink..
There is always a vernacular in any workplace that is hard to understand for an outsider.
And the thing is, it's like politics, the very people who should be reporting that all of these anonymous leaked half-truths are a huge problem benefit the most from them so they don't. I doubt Mort chewed out his source because his source was right enough that it got him clicks and next time that source gives him a crappy inaccurate note about a potential scandal he'll roll with it and get more clicks.Punchado said:It seems like there are only three possibilities here --
1.That Brady and or the equipment guys are lying.
2.That the NFL is a malicious, punitive, incompetent and corrupt organization.
3. All of the above.
What is interesting to me is that while many believe that the patriots cheat all the time, Brady has been pretty much universally respected. He's a bit of a sacred cow. So why in this situation where the two parties are not A. Cheating Patriots and B. Asshole NFL but A. Golden Boy Brady and B. Asshole NFL, the herd has thrown in their lot with the side that has proven, just over the past year that they are total and complete morons and liars (when did you see the tape, Commissioner?). Especially when if you take a step back and look at the facts in a cold way, the evidence of wrongdoing in this situation clearly points towards the NFL's guilt and not the Patriot's(the incompetence in the measuring, the leaks to the media that were completely false, the bizarro penalties that are beyond anything the NFL has EVER SEEN). I guess you can chalk it all up to Pats hate in terms of the fans and the media that caters to the lowest common denominator fans but I must admit I'm actually kind of surprised that there isn't more thoughtful analysis of all of this.
Maybe I shouldn't be. Which is making this whole thing super depressing. Yes its wonderful theater and yes I'm sure it will fuel the Patriots next season but it's very sad to see the media fail so badly. Even worse than that, they actually created this mess. Honestly how can we look at any reporting and trust it when the person who should be being vilified right now is not Tom Brady but Chris Mortensen for tweeting out an untrue report that is the mouth of the river for all of this. Where is the call for accountability? Everyone wants Brady to come clean but when a reporter fails at doing the most fundamental part of his job (reporting the facts) no one blinks. He's' not doing the rounds apologizing. No one is demanding his sources be revealed (because that is the real story here. Even if the balls were illegally inflated it had no impact on the game, but if the NFL is intentionally trying to destroy the reputation of one of its franchises and its star player then I think there is a real "integrity of the game" issue going on). And frankly, all of these TV and radio and print reporters who are going after Brady to get clicks and retweets and talking heads time should take a moment and think, holy shit, we have succeeded in tearing down the Golden Boy of football. Everybody loves and respects this guy. And we have tarnished him. If it can happen to him then it can happen to any of us. Public figure or private. And it can happen overnight. The difference is that Brady can tell everyone to fuck off and be fine. Most people (like them) would be ruined. I mean, this whole thing is built on bullshit. It's a machine that starting churning out stories not because it was important that the world knew what was happening but just so that the machine had something to do. Clearly the news is no longer about the news. The news is it's own entertainment content provider. It no longer reports on events and public figures, it creates them. The problem is that they still consider themselves news companies too. So the price of their need to produce content is that the actual news stories get twisted or under reported or often incorrectly reported and there is no sense of urgency to correct themselves. The urgency is only about providing more content. Obviously there are exceptions but in this case, the NFL seems to have taken advantage of the machine and created a real horror show.
It's fucking depressing. To see the so called defenders of truth care so little about it.
Eh, that's too much for me. Such a conspiracy would leave a trail. I think the more likely explanation is that everyone is getting on the Shit On New England gravy train while the getting's good.dcmissle said:The Machiavel in me is loving this now. Florio is now channeling reports of complaints past about the Patriots fucking with communications. I do not believe the Dansby comment was accidental, and I don't believe the PFT links on this are accidental. I think the NFL is upping the ante -- you can soil out reputation and we can further soil your's.
Hardball.
Who would have thought on January 1st 2015 that we would be where we are now?epraz said:
I would really like to hear what you're thinking of, in terms of a series of events that lead to there not being an NFL by next February.
I no longer have any compassion for fans of other teams. If they get screwed by the NFL, tough crap.jtn46 said:And the thing is, it's like politics, the very people who should be reporting that all of these anonymous leaked half-truths are a huge problem benefit the most from them so they don't. I doubt Mort chewed out his source because his source was right enough that it got him clicks and next time that source gives him a crappy inaccurate note about a potential scandal he'll roll with it and get more clicks.
My guess is that Goodell and the NFL saw a chance to burn Belichick on a second offense and let the media run wild hoping Wells would find something there but when it didn't quite happen there was no choice but to go heavy on Brady and the team so that all the headlines, time, money, etc... would seem justified. We're Pats fans, but let's face it, if it took 4 months and 5 million dollars and the result was a $200k fine to the team or Brady, that would make the NFL look really bad and would have probably turned at least one owner, Jim Irsay, against Goodell and the league. As is usual, the NFL couldn't get out of its own way and completely lost control of a situation. The only good news for the NFL right now is that so many people hate the Patriots so much, that they can't even begin to think "what if the NFL treated my team this way over something as stupid as this?"
The rest of the country are morons. Who cares what they think. I'm with OFT, fuck 'em.Old Fart Tree said:Fuck that, I'd rather be the Raiders. Fuck em all.
Lol nice try Jerry.lambeau said:GOAT Jerry Rice today on his stickum admission: "I mistakenly used that word."
+1000lambeau said:Dan Patrick today: "I guarantee you Rozelle or Tagliabue would have picked up the phone and called Tom personally: 'Tom, I got this fax from the Colts about ball pressure; let's not have any problems Sunday, OK, bud?' That would have been the end of it."
I'll bet Tom Brady was never disqualified for cheating in a golf tournament. Jerry was. He should really keep quiet.lambeau said:GOAT Jerry Rice today on his stickum admission: "I mistakenly used that word."
lambeau said:GOAT Jerry Rice today on his stickum admission: "I mistakenly used that word."
pappymojo said:While I'm wish casting any chance Shannon Sharpe adjusted his contract in one of the years that the Broncos got busted for messing with the salary cap? He is a bigger dick than Jerry Rice by far.
I refuse to wear a darth vader mask and fishnets.Old Fart Tree said:Fuck that, I'd rather be the Raiders. Fuck em all.
lambeau said:GOAT Jerry Rice today on his stickum admission: "I mistakenly used that word."
ivanvamp said:I no longer have any compassion for fans of other teams. If they get screwed by the NFL, tough crap.
They do not have a dynasty going, per se, but they did win a SB -- and they had an entire season wiped out by the NFL. They were just leveled.Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
I've read a lot of comments on Reddit from Saints fans along the lines of "Welcome to the club, guys."
Maybe we can join up with them and form a gang.
dcmissle said:You can make a very rational case for everything that has happened based on the undeniable fact that the NFL prizes parity above everything else. It would be an extravagant way to achieve more parity to be sure, but logically it is coherent.
dcmissle said:Food for thought the next time another team gets jammed up. And some of us go 150 proof PC, V&N in here -- especially when we react in knee fashion based on sketchy facts. It happens. A lot.
I am watching Rollerball after the Sox game tonight.dcmissle said:You can make a very rational case for everything that has happened based on the undeniable fact that the NFL prizes parity above everything else. It would be an extravagant way to achieve more parity to be sure, but logically it is coherent.
And their fine was nullified on appeal if I remember correctly.TomTerrific said:I would caution people to stop pointing so readily to the Chargers example. It's not perfectly analogous in that the NFL ultimately determined that they were not actually doing anything wrong with the towel. Their fine was purely for the non-cooperation.
lambeau said:Dan Patrick today: "I guarantee you Rozelle or Tagliabue would have picked up the phone and called Tom personally: 'Tom, I got this fax from the Colts about ball pressure; let's not have any problems Sunday, OK, bud?' That would have been the end of it."
Ultimately meaningless violation. Millionaires who get paid to tackle and abuse their bodies throw some side money to encourage themselves to tackle and abuse their bodies.drleather2001 said:Fuck the Saints. That was a violation that, you know, actually happened.
That's like a guy in who's in lockup for assault and battery walking up to a guy who's in for parking tickets and saying "I feel you, bro!"
After reading the Bree's quote up thread, I have a lot more pity on the Saints. I remember hearing people talk about how Goodell wouldn't get a clean meal in NO during the Super Bowl and now I see their point. The guy deserves spit in his food.drleather2001 said:Fuck the Saints. That was a violation that, you know, actually happened.
That's like a guy in who's in lockup for assault and battery walking up to a guy who's in for parking tickets and saying "I feel you, bro!"