Krafty Bob sets up Brady tribute

[AtomicDawg]

 

[Joker]

Joe Kerr to Jim Gray before Sunday's game..."I never liked you, you two faced bald headed chicken ****er..."

 

[Jlaff]

It doesn't explicitly say that. It's poorly worded and BB interpreted it one way when the League meant it another. Guess who's interpretation counts more? And guess who BB should have asked if he needed clarification?

My agree might be premature, because I've never actually read the bylaws or the memo.

But based on legal principles I'd like to present what I think would be the analogy. In law, you have a statute and then regulations which draw jurisdiction, or permission from the statute. If the statute says, for example "the regulations may define x", and the regulations attempt to define y, then those regulations have exceeded their jurisdiction and are ultra vires and therefore of no force or effect.

So if the NFL bylaws say the commissioner may describe the colour of the clouds, and Goodell says in a memo that the sky is green, he's acting beyond the powers of his enabling bylaws, or acting contrary to them. And if he's wrong in interpreting or applying the bylaws, no one is supposed to be bound by his mistake.

So if my analogy is correct, and I'm going to assume a memo is akin to regulations, that is Goodell as regulator interpretating the enabling bylaws, then Arch is probably right. And I wouldn't trust that moron with a communications degree to interpret anything either.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

The banners say this to me:

That, despite the fact that Orthwein made his final offer to move the franchise ten months after ruining its logo and uniforms [i.e. dressing them up as the St. Louis Patriots], Robert Kraft always has been and always will be in love with the flying elvis.

And, Kraft will do everything he can to ensure Tom Brady finishes his stellar career having been dressed in its entirety as a total loser, Arena-league reject, ignorant classless moron, along with his teammates; and he will never have the opportunity to win the sport's biggest game on its biggest stage, in front of a world-wide audience, dressed as the real local professional football team that competed and proudly represented Boston and New England for 32 years.

 

[Ring 6]

My agree might be premature, because I've never actually read the bylaws or the memo.

But based on legal principles I'd like to present what I think would be the analogy. In law, you have a statute and then regulations which draw jurisdiction, or permission from the statute. If the statute says, for example "the regulations may define x", and the regulations attempt to define y, then those regulations have exceeded their jurisdiction and are ultra vires and therefore of no force or effect.

So if the NFL bylaws say the commissioner may describe the colour of the clouds, and Goodell says in a memo that the sky is green, he's acting beyond the powers of his enabling bylaws, or acting contrary to them. And if he's wrong in interpreting or applying the bylaws, no one is supposed to be bound by his mistake.

So if my analogy is correct, and I'm going to assume a memo is akin to regulations, that is Goodell as regulator interpretating the enabling bylaws, then Arch is probably right. And I wouldn't trust that moron with a communications degree to interpret anything either.

No

 

[Jackson 2]

The banners say this to me:

That, despite the fact that Orthwein made his final offer to move the franchise ten months after ruining its logo and uniforms [i.e. dressing them up as the St. Louis Patriots], Robert Kraft always has been and always will be in love with the flying elvis.

And, Kraft will do everything he can to ensure Tom Brady finishes his stellar career having been dressed in its entirety as a total loser, Arena-league reject, ignorant classless moron, along with his teammates; and he will never have the opportunity to win the sport's biggest game on its biggest stage, in front of a world-wide audience, dressed as the real local professional football team that competed and proudly represented Boston and New England for 32 years.

I have no idea WTF you're smokin', but I want some...

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

I have no idea WTF you're smokin', but I want some...

BTW: First, I did shut up about our uni's for over twenty years - suffering mostly in silence

Second, I'm not the one who opened that disingenuous exhibit over there a week ago Friday

How's about I stroll down to Pittsburgh, introduce myself and say, "I'm from Boston, and the league sent me here to take care of things while the Rooneys are away, and after being here a couple weeks it's clear to me you guys need an image makeover, so we'll be completely replacing your logo and uniforms...the helmets will definitely be yellow, as it's historically accurate - U.S. Steel uses yellow safety hats - and the uni's will be much worse than your throwbacks, something reflecting what's popular in 2016...some shade of blue jerseys. As for the logo, company's will be used (USS), preceded by a capital "W" to incorporate that winning tradition:

Now, anybody thinking that I'm subsequently attending anything other than my funeral is being unrealistic

 

[Jackson 2]

Man, that is some mega-ganja. You lucky prick...

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

I agree with this.
Despite Ken's claim, this is the first time I ever heard about post memo WARNINGS issued to BB. Not just one but 3 warnings. I say that did not happen. False memories stated as fact.

BB's mistake was thinking so little of the Commish (who could blame him?) that he simply ignored the MEMO to all teams and did his (correct in my opinion) clubhouse lawyer interpretation about using the recording within the game which the memo explicitly prohibited. Since he did not use the recordings during a game he felt he met the language of the memo. He was correct.
When Commissioner Bozo fell on him like a ton of bricks Kraft had every right internally to be wicked pissed at BB for the "unforced error" but he really, really needed to go see Goodell behind the scenes and insist that the punishment fit the crime AND that the Commish state explicitly what infraction the punishment was for. Kraft did none of this and worse yet as we have just painfully seen again never learned a thing from his submissance.

THESE are the uniforms we should be wearing in Houston on February 5th.

 

[raduray]

I get it. Penance. We'll see if it stays up once the season starts. We'll see if he keeps blindly supporting Goodell, as he did when the Saints were screwed. Bob Kraft, of all people, should know Martin Niemoller's poem: http://tinyurl.com/3optagc.

 

[raduray]

I get it. Penance. We'll see if it stays up once the season starts. We'll see if he keeps blindly supporting Goodell, as he did when the Saints were screwed. Bob Kraft, of all people, should know Martin Niemoller's poem: http://tinyurl.com/3optagc.

Well, so much for that. The season starts and then this: