Tom Brady did it! Suspension overturned in court!!
Jake T.
Senior Member
News is breaking now. Although I'm pretty confident he was knowingly deflating the footballs I'm happy to see it get overturned. NFL was setting a dangerous precedent suspending people with no evidence.
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http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/13570716/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-wins-appeal-nfl-deflategate
What happened to the guys who where deflating the balls?? Why weren't they in court to testify??
No awareness?? LOL Court system is fucked up in this country. You get caught doing something and want to come out smelling like a rose you better have plenty of money and connections with people in high places like our man Brady, or else you can go to prison for stealing a lollipop.
Mmmm, he doesn't have more money or connections than the NFL. And he didn't get caught doing anything.
From what I understand the case wasn't about whether or not Tom Brady did it, it was about whether or not the NFL had enough evidence to levy such a suspension. All they were reviewing was the information the league already had before making the suspension announcement so the guys who copped to it weren't needed.
Exactly, but there is still naive people out there and oblivious to the fact that these things are really happening in the sports world.
No one has admitted deflating the balls although the two equipment guys remain suspended by the team. Wraps the NFL can't even prove the balls were deflated, all they know is that some, not all, some, contained less than the required 12.5 psi. It appears to be possible that the reason could even be weather related as the league has never studied what happens to the balls in cold weather. Total clusterfuck from day 1 on this. Kraft should have sued instead of forfeiting the draft picks.
Your right that's what Kraft should of done and I still wonder why he didn't.
In our tournament in the Netherlands this year, we were playing Japan in the semi-finals. 3rd inning, the home plate umpire got popped with a foul ball and had to leave the game. All games before the finals are played with 3 umpires. They didn't have an alternate guy ready so we played with 2 umps. 5th inning, we are down 2-1, runner on 1st and i am up. i hit a ball down the right field line, looked foul, they called it fair, i get a double, runner moves up to 3rd. Japan is going nuts arguing(we don't like each other to begin with, every Japanese team I have played have been asses). 2 out, next guy gets the old swinging bunt down the 3rd base line. 3rd baseman comes in and throws to 1st, beats the throw, I score from 2nd soon after the guy on 3rd scores. They appeal saying I missed 3rd base. Both umps look at each other and just say safe. See, I knew the home plate ump had the runner coming home and base ump had the batter running to 1st. No one watching me. I basically cut about 4 steps off my trip by making my turn right at the infield grass, think I stepped on the grass actually. They went nuts. When I came up the next time, the catcher said "that was weak", my reply "not my job to ump the game so fuck you".