Another reminder that this whole story was a joke.
Tag: nfl
Sometimes, I wish I had the confidence to pull of a stunt like this.
Shocking. I’m shocked.
As you might expect, Browner got a 15-yard penalty for his tweets.
SPOILER ALERT: Bill Belichick is really good at this job.
The best quarterback in the history of the NFL.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS: The Seahawks lead the league in performance-enhancing drug use since Pete Carroll’s arrival in 2010, and that doesn’t even include the overturning of Richard Sherman’s positive test before the first of three straight playoff appearances. Talk about deflated balls in the Super Bowl.
But, of course, let’s talk about how the game balls used by the Patriots in another game had a little less air.
SPOILER ALERT: The article about the Patriots fumbles was riddled with statistical errors.
The whole piece is great, but I especially like this:
Belichick on Saturday gave what felt like a college power lecture on preparation of footballs and what he thinks happened, going on in pretty surprising detail about their amateur scientist experiments. Then, everyone just said he was a liar. That’s where we are with this. I’ve covered sports for a long time and don’t recall a mass overreaction to a story quite like this.
The whole story has been ridiculous from the start, but at least now people are coming to that realization.
There is no evidence of any actual wrong doing by the Patriots, but even Belichick’s explanation won’t be enough for people who hate the Patriots being consistently good for so long.
*See also*, [Dan Wetzel’s take](http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/Dan+Wetzel/SIG=14hafp616/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/-bill-belichick-doubles-down-on-patriots–innocence-in-deflate-gate–dares-nfl-to-prove-him-wrong-225504102.html).
At least something good happened in the NFL this week.
> We’re a few weeks from the NFL throwing pink on all its uniforms in an effort to tell women how much it cares about them – and, of course, making money off the deal while kicking a few bucks to cancer research.
I would not be surprised if this costs Ray Rice his career and Roger Goodell his job. How could the NFL give out a 2 game suspension for this kind of conduct?
Now, we wait and see if we can top this for “Highlight of the 2014 NFL Season.”
“When I suck, I’ll retire, but I don’t plan on sucking for a long time.”
So great.
(1) I think this is ridiculous.
(2) The NFL better enjoy this while it can, because football as we know it is not long of this world.
I just hope that if I continue to read articles like this,[^f3336] I will eventually get a deeper understanding of what on earth is really happening in most advanced football plays.
[^f3336]: Ones that go way over my head football wise.
I’ll believe it when Gronk is actually out on the field during a game.
This is a joke, right? This cannot be real.
> “Yeah, I don’t know where those, some of those reports come from,” Brady said. “Obviously I have relationships with every guy that I’ve ever played with, certainly guys at the receiver position are some of my best friends and people that I spent the most time and I’m the closest with. But I don’t make any personnel decisions, I don’t — I can’t talk to coach Belichick about bringing players back. I’ve never been able to control personnel decisions, so that’s — I’m a player like everybody else.
I feel like NFL “insider” reporting has been pretty bad this year. That seems especially true when it comes to the Patriots.
What a cheat. It's ridiculous how baseball players get crushed in the media for this stuff, but a football player just slides on by with a 6 game suspension.