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[The NightMan Cometh]

[acicm2]

but i get banned for making threads...

 

[Quarian Master Race]

"hey everyone. Let's keep this on topic. Thank you."

[RidiculousMammal]

Just more time for Gisele and my deflated balls

 

  Enjoying living vicariously through Tom Brady?  Have you reached the point where you don't remember your birthname yet?

 

 

Steps to follow self-delusion :

 

1.  Create account as Tom Brady.

2.  Post as if you are Tom Brady.

3.  Mention sexual conquests as Tom Brady.

4. Start threads as Tom Brady talking about Tom Brady life.  Repeat step 3.

5. Warp back to reality.  Check body fat index and symmetry of face to measure gap from you to Tom Brady.  Activate gym membership and pretend you're not 45.  Walk Run to gym and begin straineous excercise regiman with Rocky theme from iPod.  Go home and tell mom you are making a change in your life after she finishes doing your laundry.

6. Ignore step 5.  Leave job as sandwich artist at Subway to pursue life as Tom Brady.

[RidiculousMammal]

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  I didn't realize it at first, but I now must apoligise to Jelena Jankovic posting\exploiting white women. 

 

  Sorry Jelena.  I never knew the service you provided us until now!  Here's your excuse to post your White Woman of the day pics.  Activate Olivia Wilde boob gif!

[PHOEN1XK1NG]

There's a lot of little tricks one could do in football for a bit of an advantage...  but you absolutely don't **** with the ball.  The ball is the most important aspect of the game.

 

The first four games are crap.  Teams aren't fully prepared to play the first few weeks due to the cba's restrictions to practices and off-season activities.  Anyone can win a few games, even with a backup qb.  He should be held out the last four games of the season.  That would be a more stiff penalty.

 

 

 

All this shows is you can cheat your way to a Super Bowl, and enjoy a minimal consequence the following year.  It's pathetic... although they do lose a 1st round pick next year, and are fined a million.  That's chump change though.

 

 

 

 

 

The NFL should also inquire about how often the opposing team's headsets go down at Gillette Stadium...

[nat in the hat]

Although I hate the Patriots and Tom Brady i think this is a good suspension. He will probably only serve 2 games from appeal

[q5tyhj]

...He will probably only serve 2 games from appeal

Doubtful. Goodell's either not going recuse himself, or just appoint one of his stooges as arbitrator. And with the Pats opening schedule, it wouldn't be at all surprising to see them start 1-3. Maybe they'll rethink trying to find any/every possible way around the rules to gain an advantage now. Then again, probably not- it is the Patriots, after all. 

[nat in the hat]

Doubtful. Goodell's either not going recuse himself, or just appoint one of his stooges as arbitrator. And with the Pats opening schedule, it wouldn't be at all surprising to see them start 1-3. Maybe they'll rethink trying to find any/every possible way around the rules to gain an advantage now. Then again, probably not- it is the Patriots, after all. 

I hope you are right but its Tom Brady, I am sure they will give me a pass, I think Goodell gave him 4 because he already knew he would reduce it to 2

[q5tyhj]

I hope you are right but its Tom Brady, I am sure they will give me a pass, I think Goodell gave him 4 because he already knew he would reduce it to 2

We'll see, but I'm skeptical- the NFL has been getting ALOT of grief over this (and rightfully so), and it looks like Goodell's trying to make an example out of the Patriots. Hard to do that if they reduce the sentence, and there's very little history of Goodell's verdicts getting changed on appeal anyways so its Brady vs. the overwhelming historical precedent, which should be a tall order even for Mr. Special Blessed Cupcake-Princess. 

[Shampoohorn]

Four months to the start of the season. Plenty of time for even more shocking twists and unexpected turns in this bizarre story. I'd say the loss of two draft picks is the most surprising, except I've honestly had no idea how any of this would unfold. Regardless of the outcome, the Pats will be coming out of the gates in full FU mode. Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED???

[q5tyhj]

Four months to the start of the season. Plenty of time for even more shocking twists and unexpected turns in this bizarre story. I'd say the loss of two draft picks is the most surprising, except I've honestly had no idea how any of this would unfold. 

Yeah that part was a little surprising, given that the Wells report basically exonerated Belichek and ownership. I don't think many analysts saw that part coming either, though nearly all were predicting a suspension for Brady. Evidently the league went with the "ignorance is not an excuse" card they played against the Saints in the Bountygate scandal- and given the Patriots history, I can't say that I see much of a problem with that. Regardless of whether it was the same individuals, you can't have an NFL franchise with a pattern of highly-publicized cheating, that's terrible for the league's image. 

[nat in the hat]

Four months to the start of the season. Plenty of time for even more shocking twists and unexpected turns in this bizarre story. I'd say the loss of two draft picks is the most surprising, except I've honestly had no idea how any of this would unfold. Regardless of the outcome, the Pats will be coming out of the gates in full FU mode. Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED???

I remember the last time the Pats came out in full FU mode at the beginning of a season after a penalty for cheating 

 

 

[Kenny Bania]

****** cheat.

[justinman114]

There's a lot of little tricks one could do in football for a bit of an advantage...  but you absolutely don't **** with the ball.  The ball is the most important aspect of the game.

 

The first four games are crap.  Teams aren't fully prepared to play the first few weeks due to the cba's restrictions to practices and off-season activities.  Anyone can win a few games, even with a backup qb.  He should be held out the last four games of the season.  That would be a more stiff penalty.

 

 

 

All this shows is you can cheat your way to a Super Bowl, and enjoy a minimal consequence the following year.  It's pathetic... although they do lose a 1st round pick next year, and are fined a million.  That's chump change though.

 

 

 

 

 

The NFL should also inquire about how often the opposing team's headsets go down at Gillette Stadium...

The Falcons pumped crowd noise into their stadium all season.  The Browns were texting from the sidelines.  Aaron Rodgers uses OVER-inflated footballs.  But nobody cares about any of that.  Why?  Because none of those teams won a damn thing. 

 

Every team in the league is doing something to circumvent the rules, and you would be naive to think otherwise.  The Pats just blew it by getting caught, and on top of that, lying about it.  The cover up was far worse than the crime in this case.  Everyone knew Brady was lying months ago in the press conference after the Colts game.  Now it's a big story and everyone will pile on.

 

I believe he should be suspended, but 4 games is far too much.  We're talking about air in footballs here.  It's not like anyone was using Stickum after it was made illegal or anything *cough* Jerry Rice *cough*.

 

I'm a Pats fan, but I try to be non-biased.  It's obviously hard, but just think about it.

[Dunmer of Redoran]

The Falcons pumped crowd noise into their stadium all season. The Browns were texting from the sidelines. Aaron Rodgers uses OVER-inflated footballs. But nobody cares about any of that. Why? Because none of those teams won a damn thing.

Every team in the league is doing something to circumvent the rules, and you would be naive to think otherwise. The Pats just blew it by getting caught, and on top of that, lying about it. The cover up was far worse than the crime in this case. Everyone knew Brady was lying months ago in the press conference after the Colts game. Now it's a big story and everyone will pile on.

I believe he should be suspended, but 4 games is far too much. We're talking about air in footballs here. It's not like anyone was using Stickum after it was made illegal or anything *cough* Jerry Rice *cough*.

I'm a Pats fan, but I try to be non-biased. It's obviously hard, but just think about it.

Tom Brady isn't getting suspended because he cheated, and isn't even getting suspended because he lied. He's getting suspended because he's a petulant little ****** who isn't content with his extremely good fortune. He gives the league bad rep, he gives Goodell bad rep, and it's his shitstain personality that's damaging the Patriots' legacy and prestige.

[q5tyhj]

The Falcons pumped crowd noise into their stadium all season.  The Browns were texting from the sidelines.  Aaron Rodgers uses OVER-inflated footballs.  But nobody cares about any of that.  Why?  Because none of those teams won a damn thing. 

 

Every team in the league is doing something to circumvent the rules, and you would be naive to think otherwise.  The Pats just blew it by getting caught, and on top of that, lying about it.  The cover up was far worse than the crime in this case.

Its sort of common sense that people care less about cheating when you lose than when you win- if you cheated and still lost, what's there to tarnish, the loss? Obviously there's still the principle of the thing, but then, people did care about the Browns and the Falcons, they just didn't care quite as much because those teams suck so clearly it wasn't giving them any significant advantage. When a team is as successful as the Patriots, and has now multiple incidents of deliberate and systematic (to some degree- i.e. involving more than one or two isolated individuals) cheating, the question always remains to what extent did the cheating contribute to their success? Obviously it didn't play a huge role in that AFC title game, but you have to wonder- how long as Brady been doing it? How many close games, playoff games even, were potentially affected?

 

But the last line in your quote is also crucial- in many of the other cases you mentioned, the offenders 'fessed up right away and accepted the penalty. Brady lied about it, and refused to cooperate with the investigation. Now he's going to appeal the ruling. So I think that the punishment is fairly proportional to the crime, although the 1st round draft pick is debatable- but its at least consistent with what they've done before (i.e. in Spygate and Bountygate), so even if its extreme at least its consistent.

[Salarian Jesus]

OK.

[RidiculousMammal]

  Wonderful. I post a thread called "Quarian Meat for sale" and it gets deleted for spam. This weirdo living vicariously through Tom Brady talking about something not even remotely related to Mass Effect, gets to keep his thread going.  How is mine spam and this not?   I may be gross, but at least I stayed within the Mass Effect universe.

[Creator Limbs]

Brady, you're a dumbass

 

Love,

Limbs

[JRandall0308]

It wasn't cheating, it was clever use of game mechanics.

[PHOEN1XK1NG]

  Wonderful. I post a thread called "Quarian Meat for sale" and it gets deleted for spam. This weirdo living vicariously through Tom Brady talking about something not even remotely related to Mass Effect, gets to keep his thread going.  How is mine spam and this not?   I may be gross, but at least I stayed within the Mass Effect universe.

[Learn To Love Yourself]

I used to watch the Brady Bunch everyday when I was younger.  It wasn't that I liked the show or anything; my remote control was out of batteries, and the batteries were all the way over by the television, which wasn't on the way to the fridge.  Murica.

[Quarian Master Race]

  "Quarian Meat for sale"

This is either a transgression that I would have to murder an OP for IRL, or a service I would gladly pay for......

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