If You read Nothing Else Today, Read This From "Above The Law"

[ATippett56]

One way or another, I got my popcorn.

 

[Canuck]

This is probably the most rational article I've read on the deflategate subject.

 

[shmessy]

And that's our own Teddy Wells staring back adoringly at Broadway Joe. What a moment...

I'm beginning to come around to the conclusion that the legal fight against the NFL hierarchy is going to be much easier than originally thought.

Troy Vincent could NOT be any dumber than to quote Joe Namath in general from 40 years ago.

Here is Joe from THIS WEEK on this PARTICULAR SUBJECT:

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/...-jets-joe-namath-downplays-deflategate-051315

"......Hall of Famer and New York Jets legend Joe Namath thinks that performance-enhancing drugs are a far bigger issue and isn't completely convinced that the Patriots were behind the ball deflation.

"There are other sports where rules have been breached," Namath told the New York Daily News on Tuesday at the United Way of New York City's Gridiron Gala in Manhattan. "Performance-enhancing drugs, to me, is a far worse issue than what we're talking about with the ball being deflated a little bit. I don't even know that it was, mother nature does it on her own, like an automobile tire."

 

[#12]

Btw - Above the Law is the legal blog which attorneys and law students read.

The convo was updated with further blasting of the NFL. Great LEGALLY SOUND opinions. Lawyers surpassing journalists re integrity (I suppose that's how far down the drain journalists have gone ) . Some of my favorite bits:

"In all of these processes, the NFL is using legal-sounding words in ways that don't really reflect how process goes in any legal system or business I'm familiar with."
..
"c. Often the dire sounding investigations are done by law firm minions who have little interaction with real world or football stuff, and they make the situations sound worse than they actually were. In other words, they are describing *horrific* events that aren't terribly uncommon in the league, silly/bad out of context, and sometimes celebrated elsewhere in NFL Films."
....​

"To sum up this convo, it is dumb, and I apologize for contributing to the dumbness-industrial complex.

It is dumb having a process that results in multimillion-dollar investigations of ball inflation and a plain-vanilla discovery dispute. It is dumb when an accused team needs to spend time, money and 20,000 words to explain basic science to the NFL.

And I'm dumb writing this many words without legal secretaries and footnoting associate minions while getting paid 0% of Ted Wells' money. That is profoundly stupid.

We're all dumb. Paying money to cheer uniformed people toting varyingly-inflated spheroids across lines is really silly.

I offer my really dumb words to all with the dumb hope that somehow it makes my favorite dumb game better in the long run.

You must love this dumb game more than is sensible too if you have read this far. Fist bump to you."​

If you haven't checked out her hilarious blog spoofing Goodell's decision making, I'd recommend it! https://storify.com/stephstradley/you-are-guilty-here-s-your-punishment