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This Question is 100% serious, for I am very weak on understanding Rules & Regulations.
I've poked about here and there, but it's remarkably difficult to find a clear Answer.
So I'm asking for an Education on the League's By-Laws, my Good Brethren.
01 ~ Within the League's Rules, could he have protested the Draft Picks Penalty and Fine?
02 ~ Outside the League's Rules, could he have pushed it into the Courts as Brady did?
*03 ~ Addendum: Does he have any remaining Recourse, within or without?
Of course: These are technical questions, not philosophical ones.
For those who haven't stumbled across my Ravings about Goodell: I myself would've gone Scorched Earth on the Pig, attacking that vile, verminous, parasitical Excrement every single day, both publicly and legally, with the object of seeking to prove nearly a Decade's worth of blatant, brazen, dishonorable, and dishonest Attacks on our Team and dichotomous Standards meant to elevate 31 Teams's Chances at the cost of our own.
The Wells Report and Goodell's Response to it would've absolutely destroyed him.
I would've hammered away at him in front of the Cameras, loudly and relentlessly proclaiming that any Owner who sided with Goodell in the face of such blatant and brazen Treachery and general Phuckery could only be doing so for the most dishonorable and pathetic reasons: Because he couldn't compete on an Evening Playing Field ~ yes, you can be damned sure that I'd've turned the entire Concept around 180 Degrees on the ****ers and roasted them with it ~ which is of course a pretty dramatic disavowal of an extremely American Concept:
Fair Play and Open Competition.
I would've taken the Battle right into the faces of Goodell and the Cabal that supports him.
In the end, I would've had his Job. I guarantee it.
And you can be damned sure that I would've gotten those Picks back.
I might've even managed to get Compensation for the 2007 Pick.
Robert Kraft is a good man, and has occasionally flashed Greatness. On the most important moment of his Life, when James Orthwein was on the verge of taking our Team away from us forever, Kraft boldly rose to the Occasion, he triumphed, and he thus earned the eternal Gratitude of every intelligent Patriots Fan.
And while it's possible that he sensed only an hint or a tiny fraction of Mad Bill's Potential when he hired'm, the fact that he'd not only previously pursued'm and that when he hired'm he gave'm Supreme Executive Power strongly suggest that he had a bit more than an inkling of the Potential of Bill The Mad (Genius).
Unfortunately, though, it's crystal clear that Robert Kraft is also a nice man who Fears Confrontation.
He buckles under in the face of Conflict and quite clearly can be intimidated.
It gives me no Pleasure to say so, but I must write the Truth as I perceive it.
01 ~ This first became evident back in 2005 when Vladimir Putin, one of the most evil men alive, stole Kraft's Championship Ring right in front of the Cameras. Instead of simply calling'm on it ~ what the Hell was Putin gonna do in front of the Cameras but cough it up? ~ he simply stood there like a ***** and let'mself get publicly robbed...And then when it later became something of an Incident, Kraft actually buckled under to political pressure and invented some story about how much he admired Putin and the Russian people and meant Putin to have it. Yeah. Sure. Years later, he admitted what I've said all along: It was a Lie.
02 ~ SpyGate, technical Name: CameraLocationGate. 20 Years in the Slammer for having the Camera in the allegedly wrong location?? Really?? That whole thing was such a ludicrously and blatantly biased Atrocity that Kraft could've and should've had Goodell tossed out on'is Ass right then. But he buckled in the face of The Enemy. Robert Kraft is not Corrupt, like his Enemy, Goodell: He's simply a nice man with no taste for Conflict.
03 ~ DeflateGate, technical Name, thank you Brother Palm: DepressurizationGate. Having learned that he can do anything he wants to to the Patriots without Fear of Kraft visiting Just Wrath and Vengeance upon'm, Goodell rapes our Team again. And Kraft, after huffing and puffing a bit, buckles under again.
Robert Kraft isn't Corrupt. Why would he be? He's rich.
But he does lack Courage, as much as it grieves me to say so.
He has failed this Team and therefore all of us ~ for there is of course no League whatsoever without its Fans ~ on 3 major Occasions, the last two of which rendered us colossal damage, both materially and in terms of arming Scum like Goodell, the Cabal which supports him, and the cowardly, corrupt Media who protect their Jobs and drive their Careers by spreading Lies and Filthy Innuendo about us, for The Ignorant Masses who don't do their own homework can easily be led to believe that if the Team's Owner simply meekly acceded to these Penalties, then surely they must be warranted.
Hell!! There're even a lot of Drooling Idiots who think that the Penalties for SpyGate ~ which should've been a $25,000 fine at most and really just a terse email reminder ~ and for DeflateGate ~ which warranted no Penalty whatsoever ~ were insufficiently light!!! And these same Moronic Fools consequently deduce that Goodel is Kraft's *****!!! Hoo, boy....
Even so...
While Kraft has egregiously damaged the Team and the Fans who he proclaims ~ and I believe him 1000% ~ to love and honor, I believe that any fair and just rendering of his Record as the Owner of our beloved Team must look at the entire Record. And when one considers that he first saved our Team from our losing it altogether, then transformed it through his Investments, his Efforts, and, yes, his Love, into not just a Successful Team but an admired Team, and then, in an historical Coup de Grace, wooed, pursued, and acquired the Services of The Greatest Coach Alive ~ perhaps The Greatest Coach Of All Time...I pray that we can forgive his Weakness and ultimately judge the man on his entire Body of Work.
By my Reckoning, he's up about 63-17.
And I, for one, am intensely grateful.
I've poked about here and there, but it's remarkably difficult to find a clear Answer.
So I'm asking for an Education on the League's By-Laws, my Good Brethren.
01 ~ Within the League's Rules, could he have protested the Draft Picks Penalty and Fine?
02 ~ Outside the League's Rules, could he have pushed it into the Courts as Brady did?
*03 ~ Addendum: Does he have any remaining Recourse, within or without?
Of course: These are technical questions, not philosophical ones.
For those who haven't stumbled across my Ravings about Goodell: I myself would've gone Scorched Earth on the Pig, attacking that vile, verminous, parasitical Excrement every single day, both publicly and legally, with the object of seeking to prove nearly a Decade's worth of blatant, brazen, dishonorable, and dishonest Attacks on our Team and dichotomous Standards meant to elevate 31 Teams's Chances at the cost of our own.
The Wells Report and Goodell's Response to it would've absolutely destroyed him.
I would've hammered away at him in front of the Cameras, loudly and relentlessly proclaiming that any Owner who sided with Goodell in the face of such blatant and brazen Treachery and general Phuckery could only be doing so for the most dishonorable and pathetic reasons: Because he couldn't compete on an Evening Playing Field ~ yes, you can be damned sure that I'd've turned the entire Concept around 180 Degrees on the ****ers and roasted them with it ~ which is of course a pretty dramatic disavowal of an extremely American Concept:
Fair Play and Open Competition.
I would've taken the Battle right into the faces of Goodell and the Cabal that supports him.
In the end, I would've had his Job. I guarantee it.
And you can be damned sure that I would've gotten those Picks back.
I might've even managed to get Compensation for the 2007 Pick.
Robert Kraft is a good man, and has occasionally flashed Greatness. On the most important moment of his Life, when James Orthwein was on the verge of taking our Team away from us forever, Kraft boldly rose to the Occasion, he triumphed, and he thus earned the eternal Gratitude of every intelligent Patriots Fan.
And while it's possible that he sensed only an hint or a tiny fraction of Mad Bill's Potential when he hired'm, the fact that he'd not only previously pursued'm and that when he hired'm he gave'm Supreme Executive Power strongly suggest that he had a bit more than an inkling of the Potential of Bill The Mad (Genius).
Unfortunately, though, it's crystal clear that Robert Kraft is also a nice man who Fears Confrontation.
He buckles under in the face of Conflict and quite clearly can be intimidated.
It gives me no Pleasure to say so, but I must write the Truth as I perceive it.
01 ~ This first became evident back in 2005 when Vladimir Putin, one of the most evil men alive, stole Kraft's Championship Ring right in front of the Cameras. Instead of simply calling'm on it ~ what the Hell was Putin gonna do in front of the Cameras but cough it up? ~ he simply stood there like a ***** and let'mself get publicly robbed...And then when it later became something of an Incident, Kraft actually buckled under to political pressure and invented some story about how much he admired Putin and the Russian people and meant Putin to have it. Yeah. Sure. Years later, he admitted what I've said all along: It was a Lie.
02 ~ SpyGate, technical Name: CameraLocationGate. 20 Years in the Slammer for having the Camera in the allegedly wrong location?? Really?? That whole thing was such a ludicrously and blatantly biased Atrocity that Kraft could've and should've had Goodell tossed out on'is Ass right then. But he buckled in the face of The Enemy. Robert Kraft is not Corrupt, like his Enemy, Goodell: He's simply a nice man with no taste for Conflict.
03 ~ DeflateGate, technical Name, thank you Brother Palm: DepressurizationGate. Having learned that he can do anything he wants to to the Patriots without Fear of Kraft visiting Just Wrath and Vengeance upon'm, Goodell rapes our Team again. And Kraft, after huffing and puffing a bit, buckles under again.
Robert Kraft isn't Corrupt. Why would he be? He's rich.
But he does lack Courage, as much as it grieves me to say so.
He has failed this Team and therefore all of us ~ for there is of course no League whatsoever without its Fans ~ on 3 major Occasions, the last two of which rendered us colossal damage, both materially and in terms of arming Scum like Goodell, the Cabal which supports him, and the cowardly, corrupt Media who protect their Jobs and drive their Careers by spreading Lies and Filthy Innuendo about us, for The Ignorant Masses who don't do their own homework can easily be led to believe that if the Team's Owner simply meekly acceded to these Penalties, then surely they must be warranted.
Hell!! There're even a lot of Drooling Idiots who think that the Penalties for SpyGate ~ which should've been a $25,000 fine at most and really just a terse email reminder ~ and for DeflateGate ~ which warranted no Penalty whatsoever ~ were insufficiently light!!! And these same Moronic Fools consequently deduce that Goodel is Kraft's *****!!! Hoo, boy....
Even so...
While Kraft has egregiously damaged the Team and the Fans who he proclaims ~ and I believe him 1000% ~ to love and honor, I believe that any fair and just rendering of his Record as the Owner of our beloved Team must look at the entire Record. And when one considers that he first saved our Team from our losing it altogether, then transformed it through his Investments, his Efforts, and, yes, his Love, into not just a Successful Team but an admired Team, and then, in an historical Coup de Grace, wooed, pursued, and acquired the Services of The Greatest Coach Alive ~ perhaps The Greatest Coach Of All Time...I pray that we can forgive his Weakness and ultimately judge the man on his entire Body of Work.
By my Reckoning, he's up about 63-17.
And I, for one, am intensely grateful.
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