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It takes a village to really be idiotic..
Somewhere there's a village missing its idiot. But it's all good, the NFL* has a commissioner.
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While I like the idea, I'm not sure what the supposed crime is.
Clearly there could be a tort, and the Patriots might even find a way around the "Do not sue" rules to pursue it. But what would be the crime?
Conspiracy to commit fraud.
Misprison of Felony.
Perhaps RICO.
There may be more.
The thing is, we don't have all the information necessary for this type of thing.
Even so, let hope flourish. We've taken it on the chin for a long time now.
Man and I've said this before but, all these years most of us (me included) thought he was insane. As it turns out, he was the most sane one on the board.
RICO is not automatically criminal.
I say this as somebody who was party to an effort to sue the Federal Government under RICO. (This did not go well.)
I agree it is not automatic, but I have to ask...you tried to sue the Feds under RICO???
You already have my admiration....
I was just along for the ride.
It had to do with the bailout around 1990 or whatever that left the Feds controlling a lot of real estate, including my co-op building. And they didn't sell to the highest bidder, nor the one most beneficial to the other owners. That's the series of events in which I got most of my courtroom experiences -- I was in Federal court, state court, and housing court, as well as happening to go to Small Claims court around the same time on an unrelated matter.
I agree it is not automatic, but I have to ask...you tried to sue the Feds under RICO???
You already have my admiration....
I suspect double meaning/wordplay. He probably thought it was a hilarious pun.
I've thought it was this since the start. He's an equipment guy- that joke is hilarious until someone thinks you deflate footballs illegally. Then suddenly it's incriminating. Even if it did meaning taking air out of balls too, that doesn't mean he was violating the rules. If he set balls up for games or practice, that would've been part of it.
Well, if nothing else, that must have been one hell of an education for you!
RICO is not automatically criminal.
I say this as somebody who was party to an effort to sue the Federal Government under RICO. (This did not go well.)
2. Attempting to sue the U.S. government rarely works as well as it sounds
I don't know that it ever sounded good, but it seemed like the only recourse other than abject surrender.