Well, we started with a four-game suspension - 1/4th of the regular season. That was just fine with me. Don't ask me how Goodell came up with the formula - two games for punching out your girlfriend but four games for failing to hand over a cellphone. But Goodell had his reasons and four games sounded like it would actually HURT the Patriots since obviously fining them and removing draft choices doesn't.
That's the whole thing about the Patriots and Steelers. They cheat all day long on Sundays and they may get a fine or a wrist-slap on Tuesdays but it doesn't discourage them. They're all about winning and paying fines is just a cost of "doing business", just like the drug cartels. If you want them to hurt, you pull their key players out of action.
That's what a four-game suspension does and I was going to enjoy the heck out of it because maybe then someone else could win the AFC East and New England wouldn't get to spend at least half the playoffs winning in snowy, slushy mush with deflated balls.
Some judge spoiled my Christmas and even though the judge had a point, he has no legal right to overturn a commissioner's suspension. Who in the name of Kenesaw Mountain Landis does he think he is?? I'm flabbergasted that a judge even had to rule. Aren't there better uses of his time than this?
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09-08-2015, 12:26 AM
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