here's a pats thread for everyone to talk about patritos shit because nobody else cares

truly vicious heels who might actually be entertaining

wait, they aren't?

looking at comments from pats fans and can see cogs slowly but slowly turning as they realize that no the draft picks aren't coming back and kraft fucked them over by laying down on the team punishment

[pounds sam adams]

canyon between brady appealing as a player and the team fighting their part of course but the angry mob won't pick up on that

xps mook i dunno, they're a team whose slogan last year was "do your job," that's pretty neutered and corporate imo, kraft's corrupt oligarch status is villainous but in the same banal fashion

like this is an absurd sport, it deserves more comic book villains in its repertoire, resurrect al davis imo

[pounds sam adams]

― lag∞n, Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:47 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha damn man its early in colorado, hope you have the day off

love itttt

I don't like the Pats but I'm pretty happy about this really

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CN_LlrtWIAEsESW.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CN_IHa_XAAAlGKU.png

lmao

[pounds sam adams]

― lag∞n, Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:47 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha damn man its early in colorado, hope you have the day off

― slothroprhymes, Thursday, September 3, 2015 10:54 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/KbJvGvw.jpg

lol what a great day.

bill belichick just gave the most cheerful interview i've ever seen him give

my Dolphins fan friends are treating this verdict like the Casey Anthony trial. idgi. this was the right decision all around.

You can't basically let the Vikings and Panthers do something similar and be all like "aight knock it the fuck off" and nothing more, then get advance warning about the Patriots do it and decide to ensnare them in a sting operation. Not to mention that no matter the suspicions, that Wells Report didn't prove a damn thing.

any legal experts wanna weigh in on the likelihood of the ruling being reversed on appeal?

from what i've read the 2nd circuit is considered highly competent and is unlikely to overturn a reasonable ruling.

feeling deflated by this turn of events :'-(

altho it makes goodell look dumb so yay i guess

Goodell's been an unmitigated disaster, part of me wonders how well Tagliabue would have fared in this day and age. he definitely was too soft on discipline, Goodell's largely overcorrected but then just when you think he's just a stern disciplinarian that gets a little overzealous, he completely whiffs on the Ray Rice incident.

he didn't create most of the problems the league has now but he sure as shit hasn't really improved them either.

I'd love to hear what kind of smack Tagliabue is talking about Goodell when he thinks no one will repeat what he's saying.

"really bad kisser"

lol massachusetts is sometimes the best kind of assholes http://deadspin.com/patriots-planned-to-raise-a-tom-brady-banner-if-brady-w-1728717380

i found this funny when it happened, i find it funny that they upheld it, i find it funny that they struck it down. all this shit is funny.

wonder if Goodell is gonna pull a Bill Pullman in ID4 and strap on a helmet and try to take him down...ON the field!

settle it via bareknuckle brawl imo

but it should be between kraft and goodell

"And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win!"

any legal experts wanna weigh in on the likelihood of the ruling being reversed on appeal?

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, September 4, 2015 1:22 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Im not lawyer but basic access to evidence and witnesses is the backbone of our legal system and rog didnt think it applied in his kangaroo court

it was def a farce of a 'trial' in the NFL, but some have said (and I don't know how accurate they are) that it seems to be a right afforded to him by the CBA and that it's weird that it got overturned. mostly why I'm curious.

the ruling was based on lack of notice of punishment, lack of access to witnesses, and lack of equal access to information, all of which have fuck all to do with rog's rights under integrity of the game.

aight cool. I don't want it to be overturned, not just cos I feel it's the right decision, but cos I love watching Goodell resemble a beleaguered school principal more and more each day

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13533995/split-nfl-new-england-patriots-apart

yikes

literally no new information in there afaict

Included are several damaging new allegations, including that the Patriots actually had people break into locker rooms and hotels to steal play sheets in addition to other more general spy work.

There are plenty of candidates to choose from, but the biggest headline from the piece might just be the belief that DeflateGate was what one owner described as a “makeup call” for Roger Goodell and the NFL badly botching SpyGate and actively covering up just how bad it was in the face of a congressional investigation.

information, not speculation

Michael McCann @McCannSportsLaw
Tom Brady confirms @realDonaldTrump's "Make America Great America" hat was in his locker, says he's good friend & has done "amazing" things.

gross if true

lol

finally, something we can appropriately villainize the patriots for

lol so apparently on espn this morning goodell vehemently denied that spygate had any impact on their decisions re: deflategate and last week the nfl told a judge the reason they came down so hard on the pats for deflategate was because of spygate

Did the NFL feed spygate details to ESPN as a response to their humiliation over deflategate?

yeah there's speculation about that too. i'm skeptical just because it's van natta and i'd guess this story has been in the works awhile. don van natta's about as far from a league mouthpiece as you can be and work for espn.

don van natta's about as far from a league mouthpiece as you can be and work for espn

yea, thats the main reason i bothered to read the whole thing bc otherwise it would reek of nothing but league counterattack. tbf that is prob still an element to some extent, no doubt, but van natta's a really good reporter and wouldnt have published this w/o being pretty confident of his shit's veracity

does any of it ultimately matter at this point? not entirely sure.

we can all agree tho that the bradyman needs to never speak about politics in public ever again

xp but i mean there's nothing to believe in the veracity of

like every example is "some team suspected this but there was no proof"

actually the make america great again hats are extremely tight

http://i.imgur.com/Xqh9iLq.png

heh

lol