Thanks for another word salad. You could have just left that entire post out, sans this, and moved on with your day. The rest of your post was a hodge podge of ad hominem, straw men, and various incoherent thoughts on the matter. At least you also admit that Kraft could have handled this better on top of the above snippet from your post. And I'm not *****ing about anything. I admitted earlier in this thread and in another thread on Kraft that the whining does no good because people are still going to line his pockets anyway. I'm simply responding to the people who would still support the guy even if he marched a father of four out to the 50 yard line and unloaded a .357 round into his skull as the halftime show.
Yay! An out-of-context quote of your "opponent."
As I "bloviated" previously, I am illogical insofar as I was ever a fan of the team. It's a purely emotional exercise, and one I intend to continue in.
The team is an NFL* franchise. NFL* owners behave in their own interests, which, under such pressures, do not align precisely with my own. It takes the mask off the relationship.
Now since you're logical, I suppose, are you that far up Goodell's butt that you insist on purchasing his evil product? Why are you on Patsfans at all? Isn't being a fan of the Patriots being a fan of an NFL* franchise?
Use Kraft as your psychological device to square that circle if you like. Hell, use me as a surrogate if you like.
All I see is "Mr. Logic" descending into a string of profanities and hyperboles, this time hypothesizing Kraft as mass shooter, to find someone to hate.
In my own case, you find it necessary to quote out of context significantly altering the meaning of the quote.
If it's all "word salad" for you, Spock, why is it so difficult for you to address any of the points I've raised? Is it just easier to resort to these fourth-grade tactics? Or is that all you can manage?
You say you're responding to these hyperbolic characters who would defend Kraft "if" he were a mass murderer. Clearly, these people don't exist.
Taking away the hyperbole, you are responding to people who like Kraft.
You don't like Kraft, that's clear.
I am legitimately in the dark as to the range of self-interested action he could have taken, having never owned an NFL* team.
I see 2 possibilities:
1) He could have taken, and could still take, concrete action; or
2) He could not. The ultimate outcome is he's not going to win this one, doesn't have the ammo to take down the league*, and that's that.
Those 2 possibilities include "could have handled it better." I still would like to see a big front-page story, "Kraft sues Goodell and NFL* for defamation" or "Kraft appeals to Congress to Revoke Anti-Trust Exemption" (on the grounds that they have used it to empower owner collusion that removes competition from the league*). Yay great, that would be
doing something. Then I could
believe in Kraft. Whoopee.
My world could be a beautiful place where we all burp rainbows and crap cupcakes. I don't think it's gonna happen.
My observation of his responses to these events is that he rhetorically condemned the league* a number of ways through a number of channels. From evidence to date he considers this the range of his possible actions. To be fair, I cannot remember seeing stronger
words against the League* since Al Davis.
His "Shoulda woulda coulda" statement, as you say, is not proof that he would have acted differently "if he had only known."
If it's true, he had a range of action he did not exercise.
If it's false, he simply did not have a path to victory and it's all points for style
.
If he does not have a path of action to satisfy fan interest while maintaining his ownership interest, as seems most likely, it's simply a case of... welp, he's an NFL* owner. He's not anything to me. He never did give a crap - now, do I buy his product?
Answer = yes. Same for the rest of Patriots fans.
Now, are you a Patriots fan? If so you are tacitly supporting Goodell. They are part of the NFL.* Is that logical?
Your response to Kraft's responses reads as if he had fired Belichick, benched Brady, and moved on to Garopolo for the future.
My response is that it was stupid to ever think an NFL* owner is a "class act" who "has your back" and has these great values and is a real fan blah blah blah.
An NFL* owner is an NFL* owner, and that's all you're seeing here.