Hey does anyone remember when Fat Ben actually raped - beyond any reasonable doubt - at least two women, got suspended, and still returned in the same season, making the SB in 2010/11?
Here’s what’s really happening: the league was already furious with Brown’s antics with the Steelers (their little sweethearts) and especially with the Raiders, since he set a really bad precedent in behaving like a turd to get released...basically conning the team out of money. The league is lumping everything together as a special brand of punishment for Brown, who in missing an entire season will be an example for other players who want to go rogue. We’ve seen players beat up and rape women and get 4-6 games. The Patriots gladly took on the Raiders financial disaster by displacing the salary lost from Oakland and instead inserting themselves as the team on the hook, and it will be this contract that will be the hardest to void.
If Brown was suspected of rape, that’s a six game suspension, but he’s, in a sneaky way, suspended for the entire season. All it took was a very naive owner doing what he can for the image of the league (the same one that fabricated a cheating controversy against the greatest player ever, who has built Kraft’s entire reputation.) Releasing Brown was just so incredibly pointless and stupid. He could have been sitting there in the exempt list this whole time after the public has simmered down and realized the league was stalling and needed to act; he would have been an active player with rights and representation from the NFLPA. Kraft stabbed him with Goodell’s knife. What a moron. Jonathan needs to wrestle the team away from the senile prune.
I don’t care how many championships Belichick and Brady win; Kraft is still foolish and a complete puppet of the NFL, involved in everything from denying CTE to pushing for a 17 game schedule. He’s not someone you need to respect or like to root for the team.
