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I'll save ya the time: it started in Goodell's mouth and ended in Wells'...
Oh Todd, Todd, Todd. I admire your aspirational view of the league, but the NFL, as regards the Pats, seems to replicate (with the help of various media outlets) the general plot of the trial of Socrates.
As I recall, he had a jury of 500 Athenians, 300 of whom found him guilty of corrupting the youth, introducing strange gods, etc.
Okay fine, you say, them's the rules of Athens, right?
The principle argument was that a great society like Athens would not try a man of such charges unless he were guilty.
Then in the sentencing phase, a far larger number voted for the death penalty.
The argument was that a society as great as Athens, having found him guilty of such heinous crimes, could not in all good conscience settle on a lesser penalty.
The upshot: Some number of jurors sentenced Socrates to death for crimes that they did not believe he committed.
Turn on your TV to NFLN or ESPN and see if you think it'll be limited to 25K.
"More probable than not" (as we've learned here) is code for "preponderance of evidence" in NFL-land, which is code for "punishable threshold."
So I'm not thinking Brady's going to have to pay 25K and that's that. (Maybe those other two guys, who would actually feel the 25K.)
No, it's not trolling. You want it to be, but it's not. If gold cleats earn Beast Mode a suspension, the mere fact of Brady refusing to hand over his cell phone to an NFL investigation he's directly implicated in ALONE should warrant more than that.
Somehow I missed all the facts in your post. Plenty of opinion though. Is that you Ted?
A suspension for gold cleats is absurd, and calling for mass absurdity as a policy is insane. That's like saying that since some kid got expelled for chewing a pop tart into the shape of a gun, we should now expell everyone who makes a popping sound. Less insanity is what you should request, not more.
The problem with that argument is that you are taking one wrong (Lynch being threatened with a suspension) and extrapolating that into another situation.
