MainePatsFan26
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If we put all moral concerns aside (since this is a man who potentially raped a woman), it is myopic from a "win a championship" stance to dismiss the potential impact Brown could have on the team.If Brown works out in the long run, I hope you won’t feel like you deserved to be a fan of a championship team in any way. Your reaction to adversity is embarrassing. That’s essentially a Roger Goodell way of looking at things in not caring about whether or not he’s actually guilty because you don’t like the image it carries with it, even if he’s being railroaded.
How can you be a fan through Spygate, Deflategate, and constant fake or exaggerated stories about the Patriots and come to these conclusions? Your take on Brown’s social media stuff is somewhat legit, except that he hasn’t been given any chance yet with the Patriots, who have very different rules, standards, and culture than the two circus organizations where he played previously.
Adversity is not something to seek out. You deal when you have to. And I don't think Brown, if he did rape this woman, is suddenly going to stop being a sexual predator because Belichick shared a talk with him. Problems follow Brown and our culture may not have the juice, in this unique situation, to keep him from creating problems for the next four months.
I'm not coming at this from a moral place. I just happen to believe the Patriots have a better shot of winning the Super Bowl without Brown; a morale place, if you will. If you're going to attack people for sharing a different perspective and state they don't deserve to enjoy the team as a fan, well that is embarrassing far more than anything NENGFAN or myself stated.