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Well Ben slept at a Holiday inn Express last night and he still can't understand it...well it's rumored he slept there.Jason Cohen@jasonicohen
@BenVolin I wrote an article on the statistics in Wells report you might like. I have PhD in Probability & Statistics
Bill Simmons' final 6 months at ESPN reminded me of that Seinfeld episode where George Constanza was trying to get fired from the Yankees. He did everything short of taking a couple ESPY awards and attaching them to his rear bumper and driving circles around the parking lot.You know, I'm not the tin foil hat type but it certainly seems that ESPN and NFL Network are just ventriloquist dummies for goodell. Bill Simmons was fired by ESPN just for stating the obvious about the performance of the commissioner, a public sports figure it's his job to comment on.
Bill Simmons' final 6 months at ESPN reminded me of that Seinfeld episode where George Constanza was trying to get fired from the Yankees. He did everything short of taking a couple ESPY awards and attaching them to his rear bumper and driving circles around the parking lot.
By the way, every time I read a rebuttal or a critique of the Wells Report, it's been said on this board (whether by laymen or their more learned brethren). This report was bad enough that non-experts could debunk it. I mean, nice to have debunkers who'd be listened to, but, damn.
The frightening part is that the sports media is so much below the level of a bunch of enraged fanboys.
The media is a business. When people accept by and large, they're not as interested in the truth as they are in potential storylines and their economics, you see the media for what it really is.I think it was more about piling on and establishing the narrative in order to drive ratings than it was about the sports media being incompetent.
Hell, most of even the Boston media is still calling the Patriots guilty, at one level or another. It's good for their ratings, because it keeps the calls coming and the idiots listening. How many times do we have to hear something like "OK, the Patriots were probably right on the science, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TEXTS!?" before we accept that it's being done on purpose?
The NFL and its network"partners" control the media. The public will never know how corrupt the NFL is until either the judicial or legislative branches of government expose it. Not likely since money controls the legislative branch as much as it does the media.
Correct. As I've written here many times, the NFL does what it wants, when it wants, to whom it wants with absolutely zero regard for or fear of any entity. That office has carte blanche. Laws don't matter, federal law enforcement doesn't matter, FBI, CIA, they fear no one. And history proves they have absolutely no reason to.
The media is a business. When people accept by and large, they're not as interested in the truth as they are in potential storylines and their economics, you see the media for what it really is.
No matter his personal credentials he is still a no name guy and no one outside our insular fan community will care what he says.
F-ing FBI went after FIFA. They are elbows deep in the Cardinals organizations' rectum, yet the NFL goes humming along. Why doesn't someone, maybe an owner who isn't in the "group" take this massive amounts of evidence to the FBI? There is obvious massive impropriety going on here, yet nothing. Wonder why that is.
Well, this is supposedly what got him booted and i think he was unfair to Brady, if anything. Everything about boodell is pretty much documented fact.