Every time I start to think maybe there's a way out of this, I read something like your post and think that I am being incredibly naive to think anything other than that the entire process was either corrupt from the beginning or has now become so corrupt that the relationship between the "truth" and the final outcome will be somewhere between tenuous and non-existent.
That's pretty much how I feel as well.
Brady has been framed, defamed, had his reputation shattered and it all has happened with no PROOF at all. How do they get away with this?
Of course, like most, I do not understand how a corrupt scheme perpetuated by disgruntled & jealous teams (Ravens, Colts, Jets) was even allowed to gain any traction at all given the lying, hit driven mediots and was allowed to get to where we are in the forst place. I just do not get it.
That said, like you PFS74 -- every time I see any kind of a possible way out, my hopes are dashed by reality of the situation.
At this point, Goodell cannot reverse his position and survive, so that led me to hope for justice from the courts. Then the realization that the courts rarely even think of hearing a case that was previously decided by an arbitrator (in spite of the fact he is judge, jury and executioner) and how difficult defamation of character is to prove. I just don't see how Brady & the PA (who relinquished the rights they are now trying to win back with this hail Mary) can turn the tide.
Can anybody give me some real hope? Apparently, being innocent, being in the right, being a great face of the NFL for 15 years doesn't count for anything at all.
The haters seem to have won and are laughing their asses off at us.........at least until they look at Bradys fingers and see those four beauties!!