It's very civil in here. I happen to disagree with him being helpful. Not everyone is going to agree all the time.
If anyone is arrogant it's people who talk down to others with fancy lawyerspeak that no one really cares about or wants to understand. We're well past the technical legal jargon that people likes Lester Munson at ESPN and other NFL allies want to throw at the wall.
I prefer Michael Hurley, Stradley, Wallach, etc, who explain the legal terms and make it easy for the average fan to understand.
This whole issue, however, is MUCH, MUCH greater than that.
Between that and grown adults thinking judges, lawyers, cops, etc, don't take payoffs, it's quite funny.
Ted Olson doesn't take cases he thinks he can't win. It's ok to read between the lines a bit here, too. No one cares about technical aspects of the hearings.
I could care less if you or anyone thinks I am a genius or not. I said LAST YEAR, LAST MAY, when Goodell levied the punishments that it was an obvious over-reach in order to yet again try to keep parity to make it easier to get Jax in London, and open up the European market.
It's why Spygate exists. These guys don't sit around in meeting rooms watching 3 Stooges re-runs. They talk about how Goodell can be the puppet to "grow" the league. Teams know what Goodell wants, teams know what they tell Goodell, so any sell-job to the public to tell them Brady and NE :"cheat": is any easy way to defraud the NFL customer, to grow the league faster.
Our team is being used. Brady is being used. Brady has been defamed. These are the facts. And, now, the Michael Jordan of the NFL will be laying out a case to explain why Goodell has no business staging cheating escapades in order to make it easier to grow the NFL.
When all this went down last year, an attorney, my own sister in law said she'd probably eventually sue if she was Brady. This is an attorney who has tons of experience and has practiced in Atlanta, Chicago and NYC, both as a corporate attorney and worked along lobbyists.
I said it from the beginning. Brady has the money, the union does, and Goodell has barked up the wrong tree here. This is now about the 2019 CBA negotiations and it will be about a stare down from here on out.
I would be worried if I were the owners. Goodell has lied on multiple occasions to federal judges and the Feds are watching here. Two chief judges have sided with Brady.
This is now a leverage play for the union, Brady is the pawn, and I said it last year, regardless of what any lester Munson moron said last August or last month, to try to confuse people with legal rhetoric will have no bearing on the outcome. That's what lawyers do. They like to confuse people.
I am assuming you are a worker in our society, as am I, and this case concerns everyone who works for a company or is involved as a union member in a CBA structure. This is about American rights, not legal jargon.
Goodell thinks he is untouchable because some arrogant owners have told him such. All the legal terminology in the world can't change that.
