confederacy of douchebags timeline

This thread got me wondering about all these various guys I hadn't really been aware of until recently, and where + when they might've worked together, so I made this timeline.
All corrections welcomed.

1976 (-84) Joe gardi coaches jets

1977 NFL commish (Rozelle) recommends Jim kensil to run jets ('77-'88)

1982 goodell interns at NFL
http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...ategate-legal-questions.1121744/#post-4267850

1983 goodell lent to jets (j kensil) for 1 yr

1984 goodell returns to NFL
Joe gardi fired from jets

1985 (-90) Joe gardi to NFL

1987? Jets (kensil, sr) hire mike kensil (kensil, Jr)

1988 kensil, sr retires from jets

1992 Jeff Kessler helps force free agency on league through litigation

1993 (-96) parcells to patriots

1996 belichick to patriots

1997 parcells + belichick to jets (m kensil)
Goodell runs into buddy, Neil Glat, and recruits back to nfl
Jeff Pash (top attorney) hired by NFL

2000 in process of chewing his leg off to leave jets (m kensil) belichick hires j Kessler for antitrust suit vs NFL (goodell + pash)
Belichick to patriots (bringing along weis, pioli, mangini, and later, crennel)
2000/01? Jay bauman (#2 attorney + jets fan) hired by nfl

2003 Dave gardi, son of Joe gardi, hired by NFL (goodell)

2004 (-06) troy vincent plays for buffalo

2006 belichick rat packer, Mangini, to jets, fires former boss + 20 yr company man, mike kensil
M kensil to NFL (goodell)
Goodell elected @nflcommish
? Jets (mangini) camera guy escorted out

2007 camera memo issued + cameragate!! (Pash lead attack dog)

2009 troy vincent investigated as nflpa career ends + by a stroke of good fortune, NFL (goodell) admin career begins
http://nypost.com/2009/02/10/out-of-bounds-2/

2011 Kessler (+Brady) vs NFL (goodell + pash) in lockout litigation

2012 Neil glat leaves NFL (goodell) to run jets

2013 jimmy raye JR hired as VP of Football Operations for the Indianapolis Colts.

2014 jimmy raye SR appointed as one of 3 sr advisors to troy vincent

2013-14 rod graves to jets front office

2015 defamegate!!
Rod graves named nfl vp

Kensil being kensil
http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...fthe-bad-numbers.1121770/page-10#post-4268443

“We weighed the balls. You are in big f—ing trouble.”

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"I do know that Kensil has been agitating about footballs for months with the Patriots" Curran told WEEI's Dennis & Callahan on Wednesday morning. "He has been asking around about possible football manipulation for months, leading into this. So, it's kind of his white whale."

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Gardi sends phoney psi info

"The inspection, which involved each ball being inspected twice with different gauges, revealed that none of the Patriots’ game balls were inflated to the specifications required under Rule 2, Section 1," Gardi wrote. "In fact, one of the game balls was inflated to 10.1 psi, far below the requirement of 12-1/2 to 13-1⁄2 psi. In contrast, each of the Colts’ game balls that was inspected met the requirements set forth above."

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Jeff pash reunites with 'independent' investigator, ted wells, to frame brady

JEFF PASH: [re: camera gate] "I think with any disciplinary action, you have to focus on what exactly the facts are. Here you had, as best we can conclude, a single incident as opposed to, in New England, years of activity. You had an incident that, as best we could identify, was carried out by a single employee without direction from the coaching staff or anyone else at the club. That’s obviously different from what we saw in New England where the head coach was actively supervising the activity."

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Mr. Boland has followed Mr. Pash's career in the league. "I've listened to him speak and paid attention for a 17-, 18-year period. He has been the most aggressive legal lead the NFL has ever had," Mr. Boland said. "Where [former NFL Commissioner] Paul Tagliabue preferred to settle things, Pash has largely preferred to litigate."
http://adage.com/article/special-re...ash-general-counsel-exec-vp-labor-nfl/147922/

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Jets (glat) slapped on wrist by NFL (goodell) for tampering -- issued petty fine

goodell wasn't kraft's guy for commish position
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...-levy-roger-goodell-general-manager-jim-finks

Great job, identifying the cancer in the NFL league office.

Added troy vincent

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I've heard this time and time from so many people on the forum: that Deflategate was orchestrated by powerful people in the League. But where's your proof for that?

Pat fans sounds crazy enough. Why should we convince ourselves that people are out to get us?

I wanna know how you feel about this. Let's discuss this, and see if we can get to the source of all this dysfunction in the League.

I love football, and I want the NFL to be reformed. So I'm hoping we can find a middle ground here.

The league leaked false information about psi levels to the press and then chose not to correct that. Then they sent a letter to the Patriots with more false information about psi levels. I'd say that's proof. In my opinion, the $5 million Wells report including the Exponent report is further proof as it deliberately misleads. AEI and many scientists agree with that as well. Who orchestrated all this? Powerful people in the league front office.

Either they REALLY believe that Brady and company did something shady, or it's a massive conspiracy. I'd love to find some reasonable middle ground, but these are what I keep coming back to.

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/legion-of-doom-timeline.1121194/

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But how am I supposed to believe that the NFL establishment favors one team over another? NFL headquarters is based in New York, so naturally there are going to be people affiliated with certain teams?

So are you saying that the Pats have made enemies of people in that establishment?

Chiuba E. Obele said:

But how am I supposed to believe that the NFL establishment favors one team over another? NFL headquarters is based in New York, so naturally there are going to be people affiliated with certain teams?

So are you saying that the Pats have made enemies of people in that establishment?

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I think the thought is that it continues the long rivaled tradition of these two teams/cities. There has obviously been lots of bad blood between the NYJ and NEP going back many years.

I don't know that I'd find it to be quite as simple as that, but I think this is the popular belief unless I am mistaken.

Success breeds envy. Also Belichick does not play well with the press and they hate him for it. Look at Rex who seems like a nice and fun guy. Everyone loves him including me but that does not make him my choice for HC if I get a vote. The Patriots are not a lovable team but I appreciate excellence.

There are a few NFL owners who are wealthy enough and active enough to qualify as "powerful people" but I'd tend to think that the more powerful a person you are, the less you care about NFL jealousies because you are attending to stuff in the world of much greater significance.

If there are people out to get the Patriots, I'd suggest they are not "powerful" but perhaps just lucky to have jobs that allow them to do so.

This is, at this point, about the NFL saving face. Just as in the Amanda Knox case, when the Italian government realized that the case against her was a joke, but kept the case going, the truth was thrown out the window a long time ago.

The league could simply come forward at this point and admit that it might have gotten things wrong. But that's not going to happen. The conspiracy is not in accusing the Patriots of wrongdoing, it's the ass-covering and denial that followed.

supafly said:

I think the thought is that it continues the long rivaled tradition of these two teams/cities. There has obviously been lots of bad blood between the NYJ and NEP going back many years.

I don't know that I'd find it to be quite as simple as that, but I think this is the popular belief unless I am mistaken.

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But the Yankees and the Red Sox have had a heated rivalry for decades, without trying to sabotage each other.
What is about the NFL that makes competition so dysfunctional?

Patsfans needs a @Chiuba E. Obele DeflateGate sub-forum.

Chiuba E. Obele said:

But the Yankees and the Red Sox have had a heated rivalry for decades, without trying to sabotage each other.
What is about the NFL that makes competition so dysfunctional?

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Good question. I think the popularity of the sport has propelled to an odd kind of "WWF/WWE" kind of vibe lately.

A league official mentioned that it's the "ultimate reality show," and I fully understand his comments much better after this fiasco in January.

Dr Pain said:

Success breeds envy. Also Belichick does not play well with the press and they hate him for it. Look at Rex who seems like a nice and fun guy. Everyone loves him including me but that does not make him my choice for HC if I get a vote. The Patriots are not a lovable team but I appreciate excellence.

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But the Spurs are successful, and no one seems to be envious of them. So can we really narrow this down to success?

ausbacker said:

Patsfans needs a @Chiuba E. Obele DeflateGate sub-forum.

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I love this community Maybe I'm a bit too passionate...but at the end of the day, it's about hearing from other people.

Mind chipping in?

supafly said:

Good question. I think the popularity of the sport has propelled to an odd kind of "WWF/WWE" kind of vibe lately.

A league official mentioned that it's the "ultimate reality show," and I fully understand his comments much better after this fiasco in January.

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America's most popular sport is bound to contain some of the worst things about our culture, I guess

It's a shame we can compete with each other without trying to knock each other down a peg. God, I wish things were different

Are there powerful people who are truly out to get the Patriots?

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I hear that Aquaman is a big Dolphins fan and is really tired of the Patriots always beating them in the division...

Deus Irae said:

I hear that Aquaman is a big Dolphins fan and is really tired of the Patriots always beating them in the division...

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Since when does losing to a team incite others to resort to conspiracy?

If you're going to argue that success on the field is where it all begins, then you have to tell me how competing in the NFL is any more intense than competing in...I dunno...the NBA?