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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I dunno, by trying to resolve this now, then it becomes the lead story and blows up like Spygate. By pointing out that it's absurd and just letting it lie, then it will get overwhelmed by actual football news and opinion. Haters who are going to be rabbiting on about this would be going "Belicheat...Spygate..." regardless, so let 'em.
I think what it shows is an agenda to try to distract the Patriots since this happens EVERY time we have a huge game coming up. They know they're up against it so they're trying to even the odds at the expense of the game. It's sad.
Well, I guess I'm just not as concerned with the bottom line, for the team or the NFL. To be perfectly honest, it took me a long time (until 2007/8) to realize no one else in my circle of friends and acquaintances gave a damn about sports and their respective NFL teams like I did. I alienated quite a few people by going absolutely ballistic on them with facts and stats if they tried to trash talk with me. They honestly did not really care….it was just a way to have some conversation. For me, it was much more. But its not anymore and it hasn't been in a while. For one thing, I'm not even sure football in its current state will even be around in 30-40 years. And if its gone, who gives a **** who the greatest team or QB was? No one. It just doesn't matter. And so why should I care if other fan bases or joe dipshit on Facebook or Felger or anyone else thinks about BB or Brady? I know they are the greatest of all time at what they do and that's enough for me. If others think its "tainted" or whatever, who cares? It's just perception and with the "Oooh, something shiny!" mentality of the news today, perception can change anytime it wants to. So why expend the energy? If we win the Superbowl again, you know who will really care about it in my life? Me. My dad and brother. My son. And absolutely no one else. They'll all be talking about Katy Perry or something the next day.
That is a nonsensical response. Every decision is wrong if the standard for wrong is I can find f one dissimilar case where doing that didn't work.How'd that work out with Cameragate?
For me, it's less about hearing the "they cheated" rhetoric again. What annoys me is I woke up today happy to start reading an analysis of the beat down they put on the Colts, and start previewing what should be a classic Super Bowl. Instead, I get this garbage everywhere.
The idea that this will take months is simply a rumor. Rapaport said end of tomorrow or Wednesday. Knee jerk reactions always seem right at the time but in hindsight once the facts are known they usually seem wrong.I'm not proposing Kraft come out and just give some speech.
I'm saying he should not accept the NFL's ridiculous plan to take 4+ weeks (through and beyond the Super Bowl) to come up with a report on this. This ensures that the entire SB experience will be under this cloud.
He can and should demand that a full and clear investigation be made and the findings unequivocally published on this within 48 hours. How complex and nationwide is this? Examine the 12 balls, interview the ref and the linesmen, get a full debriefing from the equipment manager and ballboys.
This isn't the Warren Commission. There is no excuse for the timetable put out this afternoon.
The idea that this will take months is simply a rumor. Rapaport said end of tomorrow or Wednesday. Knee jerk reactions always seem right at the time but in hindsight once the facts are known they usually seem wrong.
If the league announces tomorrow that there was nothing to this do you guys give kraft back the manhood you are taking from him? Is it that bad to reserve judgment on the response until we actually have something resembling a fact?
man, what I wouldn't give for a good two or three days of new Don Shula rants....
I wonder what the league denotes the proper psi on that to be before going back in?Shula's nurse is warming him up to "get him back in the game" right now.
1) Your first sentence: You may want to revisit how they handled 2007. Because they did nothing and it blew up into a fireball that still smolders 7.5 years later.
2) This is an easy thing to investigate and report. Delaying it 4+ weeks only keeps it in the news.