Patriots Accused Of Deflating Footballs

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Really? Cause I recall a good amount of people saying the NFL had this on lock.

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am I missing anyone?

 

NFL never had a shot in court. Didn't matter who the judge was, their case was laughably bad utter dog shit. And now the NFL has egg all over their faces. Just a complete and total embarrassment Goodell & Co. are. They launch a massive which hunt against Brady over PSI and end up taking the L anyway despite all their (shitty, but exhaustive) efforts. And not only did they take the L, but they got their asses kicked in the process. Sort of like the Broncos in SB 48. Best part about this is that it was overturned in the NFL's backyard in NYC, right where they preferred the case to be held.

 

The season hasn't even started and the Patriots are already 1-0 on the road.

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The Patriots just suck.

 

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13533995/split-nfl-new-england-patriots-apart

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Utterly shocking that BSPN decides to rehash Spygate, a scandal from 2007, 2 days before the Pats unveil their SB XLIX banner.

 

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NEW YORK (AP) The New England Patriots have asked the NFL to reinstate the suspended employees at the heart of the scandal that came to be known as "Deflategate."

 

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said on Wednesday that the request is under review.

 

The team suspended equipment assistant John Jastremski and officials locker room attendant Jim McNally as part of the investigation into whether the footballs the team provided for the AFC title game were improperly inflated. In one of the more damning texts uncovered in the probe, McNally referred to himself as "the deflator."

 

The team was fined $1 million and docked two draft picks as punishment. Quarterback Tom Brady had his four-game suspension vacated by a federal judge. The team has denied any wrongdoing, but it suspended McNally and Jastremski.

 

The NFL said the two could not be reinstated without permission from the league.

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I am sure Tom Brady and Robert Kraft are paying those guys handsomely. They probably never have to work again.

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Speaking of McNally, how's his weight loss coming?

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Just dismantle the team and move them to L.A. already

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Not sketchy at all that the Steelers radios were interrupted with Patriots radio broadcasting.

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Oh for fuck's sake seriously?

 

The headsets and all the equipment for BOTH teams are handled by the league, and BOTH teams had problems with their equipment.

 

Jesus Christ.

 

Let it go already.

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Packers had trouble in the preseason with their headsets.. Patriots using us as guinea pigs.

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http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/13773703/nfl-appeal-tom-brady-case-heard-2016

 

A federal appeals court has granted a request by the NFL and NFL Players Association to expedite a hearing on the league's appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down the suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

 

The move virtually guarantees Brady will play the entire regular season and postseason without the threat of being suspended for his role in Deflategate.

 

The NFL's wild-card playoffs begin Jan. 9, 2016. The AFC and NFC Championship Games are set for Jan. 24. The Super Bowl is scheduled for Feb. 7.

 

The decision, filed Tuesday, ordered the NFL to file its opening brief by Oct. 26. Brady's attorneys and the NFLPA need to answer by Dec. 7. The NFL, which gets the last word in its appeal, has until Dec. 21 to reply.

 

The appeal then will be heard as early as the week of Feb. 1, 2016.

 

Brady was suspended for the first four games of the season, and the Super Bowl champions were docked $1 million and two draft picks after a league investigation found the team provided improperly inflated footballs for the AFC title game against the Indianapolis Colts in January 2015. Brady appealed his suspension, and it was upheld July 28 by NFL

commissioner Roger Goodell. Brady then appealed the suspension in federal court.

 

On Sept. 3, U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman overturned the suspension.

 

The NFL appealed Berman's decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

 

Brady has started the Patriots' first three games, and the team is 3-0.

 

 

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NEW YORK (AP) The NFL Players Association told a federal appeals court Monday that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was making a "sweeping grab for power" in the "Deflategate" controversy and a judge was right to reject his handling of the scandal.

Lawyers for the union made the claim in papers filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. A three-judge panel will hear oral arguments in March before issuing a decision weeks or months afterward.

The appeals court is hearing the National Football League's appeal of a judge's ruling that nullified the league's four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

The union said Goodell ignored the collectively bargained agreement between the league and the union when he upheld the suspension in July.

"It is a sweeping grab for power that is contrary to collectively bargained penalties," union lawyers wrote.

They said the league has for decades provided all players with hundreds of pages defining league policies including conduct detrimental to the game, with some penalties collectively bargained. Under "equipment violations," the union said, the league provides notice in bold, italicized type that "First offenses will result in fines."

The union has asked the court to uphold the decision issued by Judge Richard Berman just before the season began. Berman said the league's discipline of Brady was based on "several significant legal deficiencies," including that it failed to adequately provide notice that a lengthy suspension could result from deflating footballs.

Union lawyers noted that the NFL's investigation of deflated balls at January's AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts reached a conclusion only that it was "more probable than not" that two Patriots ball handling employees deliberately released air from Patriots game balls. The Patriots won, 45-7.

Goodell affirmed Brady's suspension in July, concluding Brady conspired with his team's ball handlers to underinflate balls and then obstructed the probe, including by destroying his cell phone.

The union said no player in NFL history has previously been suspended for obstructing an NFL investigation, so Brady had no notice of that.

League lawyers did not immediately comment, though they said in papers filed with the 2nd Circuit in October that Berman ignored decades of legal precedents and approached the case through a "fundamentally flawed" analysis, refusing to accept Goodell's view of the facts.

"The district court egregiously overstepped the bounds of its proper role," the NFL said. "Where lower courts have committed a similar error, appellate courts have not hesitated to reverse. The court should do so here."

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Ben Volin of the Boston Globe suggests the Patriots are "bracing" for Tom Brady to lose his Deflategate appeal and serve a four-game suspension.

The Patriots reduced Brady's base salary to $1 million last week while posting an 8,000-word story on their website titled "The Background and Myths of Deflategate—Separating Fact From Fiction." Both moves reek of desperation. The NFL's appeal was heard in court earlier this month in front of a three-judge panel. Jimmy Garoppolo would fill in at quarterback if Brady loses his appeal.

Source: Boston Globe

 

 

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Probably not the best thing to take that report with more than a grain of salt. Ben Volin is the Pats' shittiest and laziest beat writer out there. Jeff Howe, a Pats beat guy for the Herald, has ripped him to shreds multiple times.

 

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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) Roger Goodell will not be returning the draft picks stripped from the New England Patriots for the use of deflated footballs in the 2014 AFC championship game.

The NFL commissioner said Wednesday at the owners' meetings that he responded to a letter from Patriots owner Robert Kraft seeking reinstatement of the first-round selection in next month's draft and a fourth-rounder in 2017. Goodell told Kraft he "considered his views and didn't think there was any reason in there to alter the discipline. There will be no changes."

New England also was fined $1 million and quarterback Tom Brady was suspended for four games for his role in what has been dubbed "Deflategate." That suspension was overturned in court and the NFL has appealed.

Goodell says of reports of a pending settlement with Brady, "I am not aware of that."

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Goodell continues to look like a fucking idiot.

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I can't believe this is really still going on

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New England Patriots fans waste a court's time

BOSTON -- A group of New England Patriots fans has sued the NFL in an effort to recover the first-round draft pick that was taken from the team as punishment for the Deflategate scandal.

The seven fans include a season ticket holder from Connecticut who said the scandal has left his 7-year-old daughter disillusioned and a Florida man who said the NFL's sanctions have caused him stress and lost sleep.

The complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston says the NFL made an "arbitrary and capricious'' decision to revoke the pick in this month's draft even though there is no proof the team deliberately deflated footballs in the Jan. 18, 2015, AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.

The complaint alleges, among other things, common law fraud, negligence, intentional inflection of emotional distress, and racketeering.

The NFL, Commissioner Roger Goodell and team owner Robert Kraft are named as defendants.

The Patriots and league declined to comment Wednesday.

The complaint says the league and Goodell relied on "false premises and biased `investigations''' in handing down punishment, which also included a $1 million fine and a four-game suspension for quarterback Tom Brady. Brady's suspension remains under appeal.

The suit criticizes Kraft for not fighting the league's punishments harder.

"Defendant Robert Kraft had remedies to attempt to get plaintiffs' draft pick back, but he chose his fellow billionaire owners above the plaintiffs and fellow fans,'' the suit said.

Sports law experts tell the Boston Herald the suit is a Hail Mary because fans don't have standing in the matter.

"Paying for a ticket to watch the Patriots play isn't interfered with by the team losing a draft pick or two,'' said Michael McCann, a sports law professor at the University of New Hampshire Law School.

 

I decided the headline needed to be adjusted some, I'd say I'm surprised they found a lawyer to file the case for them, but I'm not

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Talk about a ridiculous waste of time.

Edited April 7, 2016 by BigBen07

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Probably not the best thing to take that report with more than a grain of salt. Ben Volin is the Pats' shittiest and laziest beat writer out there. Jeff Howe, a Pats beat guy for the Herald, has ripped him to shreds multiple times.

 

 

 

 

The U.S. Appeals court has reinstated Tom Brady's four-game suspension as a result of Deflategate in the 2014 playoffs.

The Patriots were reportedly bracing for this to happen after the NFL's appeal was heard last month. Brady will miss the Patriots' first four games against the Cardinals, Dolphins, Texans, and Bills before being able to return Week 5 against the Browns. He's still able to participate in training camp and preseason contests. Jimmy Garoppolo will slide in as the starter the first four weeks.

Source: CNBC Now on Twitter

 

 

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Embarrassing. Deflating footballs is a 50k fine, not a 1m fine and removal of a first rounder + suspensions. Might as well slit Belichick's throat on live TV while you're at it.