Tom Brady suspended again

[BradyFTW!]

Only people who win in the end = lawyers

I'd say Goodell won today. He just got approval from federal court to do whatever he wants whenever he wants, for any reason or no reason at all.

 

[KDPPatsfan85]

What a ****ty start to my birthday week!

Im putting #FREEBRADY on my graduation cap!

 

[BradyFTW!]

OK I've seen 2 different things posted here, that this will go back to Berman and also that it won't. Does anyone know which one it actually is? I'm beyond pissed right now that they actually did this.

Technically it is going back to Berman, but only to confirm the appeals court's decision. They've already decided that none of Kessler's arguments have merit, and Berman can't overrule that.

 

[fair catch fryar]

Also, this is about the owners, and much further than just Goodell, who we've made the sole enemy during this whole thing. Keep in mind all he is is just a puppet.

He uses them as puppets as much as they use him. They all deserve each other.

 

[archstanton543]

I need to hear one way or the other for sure if Berman gets another crack at it before I go drinking but what a ****ty start to the day

Berman does not. It's remanded to him to have it changed. That's it.

Unless the SCOTUS takes the case.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Berman does not. It's remanded to him to have it changed. That's it.

Unless the SCOTUS takes the case.

Or the second circuit grants an en banc review. Not a given at either level, but it's possible, and it helps that the dissenter is actually the chief justice for that court.

 

[PP2]

****ing assholes.

 

[Double TE]

Trump will save the day!

Some of you have zero sense of humor.

 

[NJPatsfan26]

****ing assholes.

best response so far

 

[ViperGTS]

What a ****ty start to my birthday week!

Im putting #FREEBRADY on my graduation cap!

Mine too. My birthday is today. Wonderful.

 

[Mark.]

I'd say Goodell won today. He just got approval from federal court to do whatever he wants whenever he wants, for any reason or no reason at all.

He may have won the battle, but I think in the long run he will lose the war. There will be some changes in the next CBA. He wields far too much power and his decisions are arbitrary.

 

[sb1]

"We see no impropriety and certainly no fundamental unfairness because the resolution of this matter fell well within the broad discretion afforded arbitrators"

So Goodell can do whatever he pleases because of the "broad discretion".

I don't think this goes to SCOTUS but certainly that's something they could be interested in discussing yes?

 

[turkeyneck]

Reading the decision... it says court gives no opinion whatsoever about whether the facts are true or not, but we reverse because Article 46 and CBA.

The Court finds the CBA binding regardless of facts?

(Rescued this comment from the other thread):

So now any boss in the country can accuse an employee of something as impossible as violating the laws of physics, then make up some BS 'evidence' at third remove from the events and the facts, suspend said employee, hear his appeal himself, and, based on the boss's fake facts and spurious evidence, uphold the employee's suspension?

 

[chasa]

Whoever that was, his/her account was just suspended.

It's mine

It's not

If it showed up it would be me telling Demaurice Smith that the NFLPA need to go on strike, right now.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Honestly, reading this this makes two things abundantly clear:

1) the judges have absolutely no clue about the subject matter that they were presiding over. I'm not sure they could pick a football out of a lineup.
2) they're either stupid or so ideologically anti-labor that they're incapable of acting with any basic intelligence or integrity. How else do you explain taking Goodell's statements at face value despite the fact that he's on the record as lying repeatedly throughout the process?

Either way, doesn't instill much confidence in the US judicial system.

 

[turkeyneck]

I'd say Goodell won today. He just got approval from federal court to do whatever he wants whenever he wants, for any reason or no reason at all.

Not just him. It would seem that anyone operating under a sloppy CBA can now get away with murder.

 

[primetime]

I still shake my head at how the NFLPA gave the NFL carte blanche on discipline through this absurd arbitration structure.

If the arbitrator acts within the scope of this authority, the remedy for a dissatisfied party “is not judicial intervention,” but “for the parties to draft their agreement to reflect the scope of power they would like their arbitrator to exercise.”

 

[AtomicDawg]

 

[sb1]

The Court finds the CBA binding regardless of facts?

(Rescued this comment from the other thread):

Yep. That's exactly what they ruled today.

 

[ViperGTS]

Berman does not. It's remanded to him to have it changed. That's it.

Unless the SCOTUS takes the case.

This makes no sense to me. If I'm told to rule in a specific way I'd tell the to pound sand. There is something extremely wrong with that process.