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I am in awe of the magnificent Zeus.There's good reason that Zeus is King of the Gods!
Gawd I wish I'd written that.
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Gawd I wish I'd written that.
Kraft is perpetuating a monster in the NFL front office. A monster that has no accountability, can create any amount of chaos and disruption and has no fear of being called on it. It would be one thing if Roger was just a puppet of the owners but he is an entity that is no only answerable to himself.
The message I got from Kraft was either "we cheated again and this time lied about it" Or "we're innocent, but have had too much success and made too many jealous that they will knock us down any means possible and I will not or cannot fight it."
If they did cheat, why didn't the nfl prove it and leak evidence? If they're going to be brought back to earth by less than honest means, why is that OK to roll over? Either reason makes it.... difficult at best to be a fan.
Bob Kraft is a business man - and there aren't any billionaires who haven't mortgaged huge part of their soul at one point or another.
Yesterday was just another business decision for Bob Kraft - its not about Bob 'being weak' or 'lacking spine' - its about Kraft going along with the leagues efforts to handicap the team that has had the good fortune to have the best QB/HC the game has seen.
In short, its about trying to get some parity back in the game - its about letting someone else from the AFCE make the post-season (we don't want to lose those Buffalo/Miami/NYJ fans do we?).
It's best to think of the 32 franchise owners, not as competitors, but as partners in a business venture - 31 fanbases are overjoyed - 31 fanbases have increased their odds of winning the Superbowl.
One fanbase is going to bellyache a whole lot - but eventually get straight back in line and buy NFL merch, watch NFL games.....at least this is how Kraft et al think the plebs will react.
Good business, in short.
Anyone who thinks that Kraft accepted this team punishment to lower Brady's is delusional - I would not be surprised that this be taken as a green light to increase Brady's punishment to 8 games after his appeal is rejected.
What you see on the field might not be the WWE fix that some might believe, but what transpires between the 32 partners absolutely is.
The question is, do you really want to be a part of that?
Personally, after 26 years as a fan - i'm likely done - i'll always appreciate the greatness of Belichick and Brady - and i'll enjoy watching my 3GTG DVD's - but watching football on a Sunday is tacitly agreeing with the pantomime that the NFL has become...and thats something i'm not prepared to do.
All the best.
Bob Kraft is a business man - and there aren't any billionaires who haven't mortgaged huge part of their soul at one point or another.
Yesterday was just another business decision for Bob Kraft - its not about Bob 'being weak' or 'lacking spine' - its about Kraft going along with the leagues efforts to handicap the team that has had the good fortune to have the best QB/HC the game has seen.
In short, its about trying to get some parity back in the game - its about letting someone else from the AFCE make the post-season (we don't want to lose those Buffalo/Miami/NYJ fans do we?).
It's best to think of the 32 franchise owners, not as competitors, but as partners in a business venture - 31 fanbases are overjoyed - 31 fanbases have increased their odds of winning the Superbowl.
One fanbase is going to bellyache a whole lot - but eventually get straight back in line and buy NFL merch, watch NFL games.....at least this is how Kraft et al think the plebs will react.
Good business, in short.
Anyone who thinks that Kraft accepted this team punishment to lower Brady's is delusional - I would not be surprised that this be taken as a green light to increase Brady's punishment to 8 games after his appeal is rejected.
What you see on the field might not be the WWE fix that some might believe, but what transpires between the 32 partners absolutely is.
The question is, do you really want to be a part of that?
Personally, after 26 years as a fan - i'm likely done - i'll always appreciate the greatness of Belichick and Brady - and i'll enjoy watching my 3GTG DVD's - but watching football on a Sunday is tacitly agreeing with the pantomime that the NFL has become...and thats something i'm not prepared to do.
All the best.
Even if we couldn't win, the cause was worth the fight.
I believe that Gr8est completely nailed it. The NFL clearly tries to bring the good teams back to the pack in order to have as much parity as possible in the league
Face it, people are sick of watching the Patriots win. It's been going on far too long and frankly it's bad for business
As Gr8 pointed out goodell and the owners need to do whatever they can to level the playing field.
I'm sure that this was explained to Spineless Bob in San Francisco and that's why we saw the sudden change in his attitude on Tuesday
One look at this forum and it's clear I'm not alone. Our entire fan base is now demoralized in the offseason of our 4th championship, and it has literally NOTHING to do with the "cheating allegations" of outsiders.
Eight years is a long time to bitterly defend the football team -and its players and coach- only to be stabbed in the back by the ****ing owner at perhaps our most critical moment.
I wonder. If it's `more probable than not` that Linebacker X is `generally aware` that Linebacker Y is taking steroids, is that a four game suspension? I guess that probably depends on if he wears a Patriot uniform.
Apparently it's fine for ex-rivals to conspire against us in the league office and media, **** all over our team, discredit all of its accomplishments, and we'll just lay down and take it. Go on, tarnish our championships and dock our draft picks at your leisure. We won't do or say anything. Maybe we should start apologizing for things we haven't even done, just to be appeasing and sensitive to other cities football misfortunes. After all, there's 32 teams, and only one Tom Brady, and only one Bill Belichick. Hardly seems fair.
Apparently this is the NFL's version of "social justice", and pride comes before the fall for Patriot Nation.
And thats why the NFL banned the Green Bay ownership model and wants all of the franchises to be owned by wealthy people. They can be better controlled and "convinced" than having to go through a vote among thousands of people. You think there is a chance the Packers would lie down like Kraft? There would be thermonuclear war with their ownership.
by the same token, I now have a recollection of a team that hardly ever made the playoffs, but I loved more because of the passion.
Still waiting to hear from Brady.......But I think we are finally seeing what Parcells found so hard to stomach (this version of Bob Kraft)