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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I think this reflects our sentiment pretty well. That should tell you that if Goodell believes this will all blow over for Patriots fans any time soon, he's seriously mistaken.Public opinion is fickle so I'm not worried about that. The haters of other teams will grasp at anything to demean the Patriots and TFB.
If TFB had nothing to do with the deflation of the footballs ( if there was any deflation of the footballs), then he should fight it all the way. If it means, in the end, he miss mid or end of seasons games, so be it. He has given the Patriots and the fans so much over the years, that we can live with whatever happens.
I'd love to get an opinion from the lawyers here. Obviously, defamation suits are hard to win.
Doesn't this particular case, with the NFLPA involved from the beginning, lend itself to a much more winnable and damaging [to the NFL] unfair labor practices, or some such suit, with Brady just being the principal example of what the league cannot do to a player?
This could include Kensil and Blandino and anyone, including meathead, who has fixed evidence, made false charges, ruled differently in similar cases etc.
Thoughts?
I think this thread makes a great point. Mark wahlberg was booed on Jimmy Fallon's show this week when Fallon brought up Brady and Wahlbergs friendship. I'm surprised Brady's sponsors are hanging in their with him at this point. Brady is backed into a corner and has to go for a full exhonoration if he wants to keep his endorsements on.
Just saw the show now and I was cringing when they showed cosby and held my breath if they will stoop low to show brady and they did . Disgusting! And some are saying in earlier videoes it was mel gibson who they replaced with brady . Thanks Goodell and wellsI have been wanting to say this the entire week, but I wasn't sure where to post it, so I started a new thread to get it out. If a mod wants to move it to a more appropriate thread, feel free. But we are kind of in our POV is is obviously biased, even if our evidence is sound.
Early in the week I happened to catch a new show on the USA network called Mr Robot. It's about a socially damaged young brilliant hacker, who is a tech geek by day, and by night hacks bad people land makes them pay. It is actually a very good show with a interesting premise and I recommend it highly. But that's not why I'm posting.
In the opening set up the kid is narrating his view on the world. It's about how the big corporations really control things.....and control us, the one percent of the one percenters. How nothing is what we perceive it to be. About how our heroes are often deceivers, Then they flash to pictures of Lance Armstrong, Bill Cosby...... and TOM BRADY.
So despite a complete lack of evidence, based on premise that 1 or 2 PSI of a football actually IS cheating,, an artfully orchestrated smear campaign, and the suspension of belief in science, fairness, and justice, Tom Brady is now firmly ensconced in pantheon of cheaters and liars. He has now become an epitome of deception and cheating, so much so, he can be used on TV as a prime example.
I don't know. Maybe the writer is a Jet fan. But the point is, if Tom even contemplates a future where the first thing anyone associates with him isn't "deflategate cheater", then he HAS be COMPLETELY cleared of this slander, if not by the league, then the courts. He CANNOT accept anything less. A 1 game concession might seem in the short run the best solution, but THAT won't take that picture off the TV show. ( BTW - nwhen the day comes that he IS finally exonerated, I will write a letter to that show demanding they cut the reference, and make a public apology to Tom.)
I'm actually surprised his father's head hasn't exploded by this league orchestrated smear campaign. (included the "league source" who stated the other day that Tom's responses weren't convincing) You had to be expecting that one.
http://www.boston.com/entertainment...-steve-jobs/nNOSZynCyXxlbQVUv6wRtK/story.htmlI've seen Mr Robot and I don't recall the Brady reference. I must have blocked it out.
There's a pretty good post in another thread here (I'll see if I can find it) that puts a political/racial spin on the whole fiasco. He made some good points.
In fairness Jimmy Fallon's show is taped in New York City. Brady would get booed there even if he had just saved orphans and puppy dogs from a burning building. Also remember these shows have directing, when to clap, when to boo etc.
As far as sponsors/product endorsements, there's a lot of nuance to that industry. Financial, economic, national demographics of the target audience are of primary importance. And with Brady accused only of cheating to win -- not spousal abuse, murder, telling a non PC joke -- it isn't evoking the kind of thing that will give people a visceral 'turning away' from a product.
For example, Uggs. Is the average Uggs buyer at most a casual watcher of NFL football? Are they someone who probably thinks the NFL has lots of 'bad boys' and they have a sense that 'it's normal for NFL players to be causing some sort of trouble' (maybe they are right)?
If I knew any uggs buyers maybe I could answer that