There is about a 99.5% chance that Brady never serves any sort of suspension related to this ever, never mind just this year. Courts don't overturn arbitration lightly, but they overturn other judges rulings even less often than arbitration. This whole thing is effectively over from a Brady suspension standpoint.
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Yeah, rookie move on his part. The fact that he does not have an established disciplinary arbiter lined up on retainer, given the large amounts of general fuckery that go on in the NFL off the field, is borderline negligent on his part.
The NFL played the wrong angle here, though. The right argument to make, if you want to discipline people, is to state that as an entertainment service that cheaters, wife beaters, and dope heads are bad for the brand. I am pretty sure if Jarred somehow got cleared and then tried taking Subway to court to get his job back he would be laughed out of the room. So, basically even though you cannot prove Brady is a cheater beyond all shadow of a doubt, the public perception that he is damages the NFL as an entertainment brand if he is not punished. AP took a switch to his kids nuts might be legal, but having a literal kid ball buster front line a team is not good for the NFL brand either. This would shore up a lot of bullshit, actually, but require pretty much equal enforcement or accusations of bias would be a major issue.
I don't think classifying sports as entertainment, legally, would go over too well in certain circles, however.
The NFL played the wrong angle here, though. The right argument to make, if you want to discipline people, is to state that as an entertainment service that cheaters, wife beaters, and dope heads are bad for the brand. I am pretty sure if Jarred somehow got cleared and then tried taking Subway to court to get his job back he would be laughed out of the room. So, basically even though you cannot prove Brady is a cheater beyond all shadow of a doubt, the public perception that he is damages the NFL as an entertainment brand if he is not punished. AP took a switch to his kids nuts might be legal, but having a literal kid ball buster front line a team is not good for the NFL brand either. This would shore up a lot of bullshit, actually, but require pretty much equal enforcement or accusations of bias would be a major issue.
I don't think classifying sports as entertainment, legally, would go over too well in certain circles, however.
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I doubt it. Brady may have won the appeal but keeping this in the news does Kraft no favors. He wants this to end.
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This. Pats fan or not, you should be happy the court basically teabagged the NFL. The NFL's position was basically:
"We can do whatever the fuck we want. It doesn't matter if the evidence is solid"
Can you imagine the precedent if the NFL -won-? It basically would have given them free reign to fuck over any team that they felt got out of line, even if the charges were laughably thin. That is Stalin's Soviet Russia level shit right there.
In summary: Fuck Goodell.
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I'd say no, because regardless of what you believe, a team employee from the Patriots did take the balls from the officials locker room into a bathroom, which is a no-no. And more probable than not that team employee let air out of the balls, so the team did deserve some punishment. But punishing Brady was fucking retarded.
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When you have an established punishment for tampering with equipment and that punishment is a fine, and you turn around and decide to suspend the QB for 4 games and fine the team a cool million and take away draft picks you deserve to have an someone who knows how to be fair in dishing out punishment tell you to eat a bag of dicks you clueless motherfucker
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