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The Deflategate Saga

Want to know what was the worst part of the NFL upholding Tom Brady’s full suspension yesterday?  The Players Union is going to sue the league in Federal Court to have the suspension overturned.  That’s not the worst part.  The worst part is that it means sports talk radio in Boston is going to continue talking about this ridiculous thing for the foreseeable future.  It means that this idiotic story is never going to go away.

He cheated.  He conspired with staff members to use footballs that weren’t up to league specs and destroyed evidence.  Just take the damn suspension and be done with the whole stupid thing.

Now he’ll get a court injunction that will allow him to delay the suspension.  Wouldn’t it be fun if the courts rule in the league’s favor and his suspension began immediately following the ruling… and the ruling came in the day before the playoffs start?  That would be funny.

Cheating professional athletes need to follow the Andy Pettite model.  Get caught?  Fess up.  Be forgiven.  Brady is following the Bonds/Clemens model.  Get caught?  DENY EVERYTHING!  Ruin your reputation.

Nice going Tom.  Thanks for keeping this dick hole of a story alive.  It’s only been seven months after all.  Let’s keep it going for the rest of the year!

Deflategate

You know what pisses me off the most?  After a number of years of not paying the slightest inkling of attention to the National Football League, I decide to sort of jump back on the Patriots bandwagon for the playoffs.  I watched quite a bit of their two playoff games, and actually watched the first half of the Colts game on the tube before listening to the second half on the radio.

And what do I get in return for starting to almost think about caring again?  Why the Patriots get accused of cheating again.  Oh thank you so much, Bill.  I really wanted to hear this crap.  They provided 12 balls to be used by their offense.  11 were under-inflated.  Now forgetting the fact that as methods of cheating go, this one is just stupid.  Come on, Bill.  Can’t you come up with a better scheme than this?  Couldn’t you have gotten all super villain and done something maniacal like putting Ambien into the other team’s Gatorade?  Why cheat at all?  Wasn’t the fact that Indianapolis doesn’t know what it’s like to play in freezing rain while you play in snow and hurricane horror on a regular basis competitive advantage enough?

I was this close to having fun with football again and boom, my team gets called out for cheating.  That’ll teach me a lesson, eh?