Sal Pal is a weasel

dirty little secret out. lets get into cover up mode.

PatriotsReign said:

I liken the NFL more to the mafia than the gestapo.....

And if we're lucky, Goodell will be found with the fishes...

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Not so lucky if you are the fishes though...

Is that guy from Iraq, "baghdad Bob", still alive? That dude would have been the perfect spokesman for the NFL.

PatriotsReign said:

I liken the NFL more to the mafia than the gestapo.....

And if we're lucky, Goodell will be found with the fishes...

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I agree

Owners= Mafia or "The Commission"
Goodell=A stupid Meyer Lansky ($$$)
NFL Office Executives=Murder, Inc.

So, ESPN tried to ignore this but had to acknowledge it when Reiss posted it which then prompted Sal to play some semantic word game to pretend his prior comment doesn't mean what it obviously means?

Better than being fired, I guess.

robertweathers said:

Didn't Reiss get that from SalPal and he goes and backs up the bus on him?

What a completely unethical, disrespectful loser.

Mike Reiss- If you are reading this.....get SalPal's cell # and inform that he is wormy "no-no word with umpires.".

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Yes. Just to clarify what I meant with "Also nice of Paolantonio to blame Reiss for reporting what he said":

- Paolantonio makes his comments
- Reiss report's on Sal's comments
- Paolantonio claims his comments were taken out of context

"I know who they are and I'm going to name'em right now."

I and I'm is kind of a dead giveaway Sal. Next time use the super secret unnamed sources Espn is so reliant on. One of the best backpedals of the year so far. Congrats.

Koma said:

Yes. Just to clarify what I meant with "Also nice of Paolantonio to blame Reiss for reporting what he said":

- Paolantonio makes his comments
- Reiss report's on Sal's comments
- Paolantonio claims his comments were taken out of context

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I can't recall a reporter saying another reporter took him out of context when THEY WORK AT THE SAME MEDIA OUTLET.

"Not only that, add in that you’re angering some of the hardcore owners out there, and I know who they are and I'm going to name them right now -- Jim Irsay of the Colts, Steve Bisciotti of the Ravens, and others in the AFC who believe that the Patriots have gotten away with murder for years and have not been publicly punished properly."

-Sal Paolantonio

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Hopefully just like Mort's crap report, the headline has already been etched in stone by the masses and any retraction is worthless and invisible.

Man I sure hope they don't make Reiss publish a retraction.

Hopefully he didnt mean reiss.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-england...te-viewpoint-highlights-how-nfl-in-tough-spot

"That's the rock, but the hard place is if they do vacate the suspension and exonerate Brady, then of course you're totally undermining Troy Vincent -- your vice president for game-day operations -- and you're undermining the authority of the very commissioner making the ruling, since he was the one that signed off on the initial four-game suspension in the first place.

"Not only that, add in that you’re angering some of the hardcore owners out there, and I know who they are and I'm going to name them right now -- Jim Irsay of the Colts, Steve Bisciotti of the Ravens, and others in the AFC who believe that the Patriots have gotten away with murder for years and have not been publicly punished properly.

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So sal pal talked about his opinion on the issue but chose to add names of two owners to add more emphasis.

A couple of points.

1, According to the boys at Patriots football Weekly Sal Pal is a bully and a scumbag that few in the media like or respect that much. Keep that in mind, because, like most bullies, when they are confronted they fold like a ***** with a 2/7 off suit. Which is just what Palintonio is doing now....and then trying to blame someone else for his shoddy work.

2. The ESPN counter attack is well underway. There has been a lot of press out there lately and it all reflects badly on them, since they were key players in the slander perpetrated by the NFL and likely defendants in any possible defamation suit.

This morning one of First Take's major topics was commenting on SI's report that the Pats were the most hated professional team in sports and BB is the most hated coach. Essentially in the minute or two I could bear to watch, Stephen A basically spent his time justifying why SI's report was true BOTH with the Pats AND BB (at the same time claiming that he "loved him dearly" off the field.) Again we have ESPN taking a lot of effort and air time to put the Pats in a negative light at the VERY time, the media is coming around to the fact that "framgate" is a fraud.

3. While going out of the way to disclaim and rectify their errant report, ESPN has yet to rectify or distance themselves from the equally erroneous Mort report that set off the firestorm that has become a national embarrassment to the NFL, Patriots and Tom Brady....and that's 6 MONTHS later.

robertweathers said:

I agree

Owners= Mafia or "The Commission"
Goodell=A stupid Meyer Lansky ($$$)
NFL Office Executives=Murder, Inc.

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Looks like someone's been watching AMC's "The Making of the American Mafia" too!

PatriotsReign said:

Looks like someone's been watching AMC's "The Making of the American Mafia" too!

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That obvious, huh?

Great show!!

Does everyone remember when Kelly Nagi dropped a big bombshell about cheating with he kicking footballs, only to have Adam Schefter blow her lies out of the water only a few hours later?

Did Nagi ever retract her story? No, even though it was obvious, even to other ESPN reporters, that it was garbage.

ESPN people are not journalists. At least, they do not hold themselves to even the minimum level of journalistic ethics. Caught lying? Do NOT retract anything. Stay silent. Hope that nobody notices.

The only exception I can think of was the NBA guy Chris Broussard who had called out Mark Cuban, who blasted him back. Chris Broussard finally said something like "my bad, I should have called him directly before reporting that". That's the only apology for inaccurate reporting in ESPN's history, to my knowledge.

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

Does everyone remember when Kelly Nagi dropped a big bombshell about cheating with he kicking footballs, only to have Adam Schefter blow her lies out of the water only a few hours later?

Did Nagi ever retract her story? No, even though it was obvious, even to other ESPN reporters, that it was garbage.

ESPN people are not journalists. At least, they do not hold themselves to even the minimum level of journalistic ethics. Caught lying? Do NOT retract anything. Stay silent. Hope that nobody notices.

The only exception I can think of was the NBA guy Chris Broussard who had called out Mark Cuban, who blasted him back. Chris Broussard finally said something like "my bad, I should have called him directly before reporting that". That's the only apology for inaccurate reporting in ESPN's history, to my knowledge.

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I think ESPN is moving out of CT because....well because it's in New England and they all knew eventually we'd drive down there and kick some ass....

PatriotsReign said:

I think ESPN is moving out of CT because....well because it's in New England and they all knew eventually we'd drive down there and kick some ass....

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Half of CT needs to drop out of New England (the Giants/Jets-loving parts)

Palm Beach Pats Fan said:

Half of CT needs to drop out of New England (the Giants/Jets-loving parts)

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I'd support the other half as well moving over to the Mid-Atlantic region as well. They can have Windsor, Storrs, New London and Mystic.

ha ha, pretty sad. Sal...maybe you need to worry about your legacy. This NFL man is such a shady joint....very shady....

Rob0729 said:

I just heard this on 98.5. So now Sal Palantonio is backtracking on his reports that Steve Bisciotti and Jim Irsay are pressuring Goodell to keep the suspension of Brady at 4 games. He blames Mike Reiss (didn't use his name, but blamed him saying reporters up in New England but Reiss was the one who first reported it) for taking him out of context and praised Bisciotti to come out on the offensive because Reiss unjustly smeared his name. Apparently, Bisciotti gave him an earful in a telephone conversation this weekend (he said they spoke).

I have heard the audio and it was pretty clear Sal Pal implied that Bisciotti and Irsay were pressuring Goodell to keep the suspension. Now he is using a war of semantics by saying he never used the word pressure.

What a loser.

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The media is as much to blame as Roger

Just cruised past F&M. The fact there are negotiation is proof Brady is guilty. Yay. They all need to be put on a boat and sent to some deserted island and left there. The more the innocence is being put out in the open, the more they are going on the defensive to discredit it. It's disgusting.

I can't stand what Sal did. I really can't. He was emphatic. If you listen to the interview he pulls no punches and it wasn't like they had to pull the info out of him. To backtrack now and if it's true he's selling Reiss out..well good. Proves he's a weasel and hopefully some fractures are occurring writhing the media. I don't think Reiss is stupid. How he responds will be very telling.

Nevermind. Guess he's rolling over. From Reiss' Twitter on the Sal Pal thing.

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss
@SVN2010 No. We have had open dialogue throughout. All good there. We work closely together.