NFL’s Golden Boy Tom Brady Suspended 4 Games, Team Fined and Loses Draft Picks |
May 11, 2015 - 3:00 pm
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The off-field hits just keep on coming for America’s most ethically troubled sports league.
The Patriots will begin their Super Bowl title defense without the services of the franchise’s greatest all-time player.
The NFL announced Monday that Tom Brady has been suspended without pay for four games for violating the NFL policy on the integrity of the game. This news comes less than a week after independent investigator Ted Wells found that it was “more probable than not” that Brady was “at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities” regarding the deflation of Patriots game balls used in the AFC Championship Game against the Colts.
The team will also be fined $1 million and will forfeit a 2016 first rounder and 2017 fourth-round selection in the NFL Draft.
Brady has played the wide-eyed innocent throughout all of this, but the reality is that nothing happens to the game balls in the NFL without the starting quarterback’s knowledge and approval.
The 2013 NFL season began under the cloud of Aaron Hernandez’s murder arrest. In 2014, the Ray Rice domestic abuse fiasco was just unraveling at the beginning of the season. Now America’s favorite sports league (still) will begin this year with the franchise quarterback for the defending Super Bowl champs suspended for cheating.
It remains to be seen whether these constant problems will eventually have an effect, or if fans are just really good at compartmentalization.
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However, being that Brady recently stiffed the Sham for President while being invited to the White House, and being that impeding investigations or following the rules doesn't seem to penalize ones named Clinton, I'm willing to give Tom Brady a measure of latitude.
Anybody that shoots the figurative finger at Barack Obama has to have some admirable qualities and deserves another look. :)
You mean that nothing happens to the game balls without the officials' approval.
1.) There should be no "rule" re: the inflation level of the game balls.
2.) The officials HAVE those game balls and THEN give them back to their respective teams.
This entire thing is a mess. Roger Goodell is beclowning himself - AGAIN - this time with this draconian punishment. But what does HE care? The owners, many of whom despise the success of the Patriots, pay him FORTY MILLION DOLLAR$ per year.
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"... really good at compartmentalization."
Stephen Kruiser is a professional comedian...
And entertainer. Who doesn't get it that the NFL is entertainment first, with "sport" in there somewhere. It's a game with gamesmanship Mr. Kruiser.
Hernandez dealt death.
Rice violence. Peterson a spanking, old fashion style.
One wonders if Kruiser has ever used someone else's material without attribution and made a buck or two. Boy, that joke was really good Mr. Kruiser! Oh of course.
That would be like me playing a Clapton riff and saying "Mine". Somewhat. And what would Robert Johnson say?
In entertainment, success = money and those less successful are usually envious... sometimes. Maybe. Sorta.
Do those opposing DBs and LBs like a softer ball when an INT comes near?
Oh yeah, when will Smith College president McCartney become NFL Commissioner? Can't wait?
Totally different era.