There's no Sports Section!

[gallahadesquire]

I was going to post about the lifting of Tom Brady's four-game Suspension, but I just realized there's no Sports Section here on the Forum.

 

How odd ... or stereotypical?

[bostonman]

I just wish I could be there to, um, congratulate Brady personally.

 

I do wonder if this is the end of this, though. Will the NFL try to appeal? (I doubt they will get anywhere with it, but they have the right to do it.) There have also been rumblings of discord in Brady's marriage - which I'm sure has been cause, in no small part, to the stress and tension from this case. Will they be able to patch things up?

 

And will Goodell be out of a job soon?

[mike carey]

If they renamed the 'Comedy & Tragedy' section as 'Comedy, Farce & Tragedy', this issue would fit right in there!

[bostonman]

If they renamed the 'Comedy & Tragedy' section as 'Comedy, Farce & Tragedy', this issue would fit right in there!

 

Agreed!

[Bosguy]

Congratulations Tom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Boston Bill

[Phil_musc]

If they renamed the 'Comedy & Tragedy' section as 'Comedy, Farce & Tragedy', this issue would fit right in there!

 

Yes, isn't that the section that deals with opera and other forms of high drama?

[whipped guy]

Well Water Sports has been discussed in the Fetish Forum!

[rvwnsd]

Yes, isn't that the section that deals with opera and other forms of high drama?

Opera, yes. High drama is typically discussed right here.

 

OH! That type of high drama!!

[Samfoslom]

isn't there a thread for jock straps??

[Guy Fawkes]

<Humor> If you post it in "Politics, Religion & War Issues" two of three is not too shappy! </Humor>

[gallahadesquire]

[Humor] If you post it in "Politics, Religion & War Issues" two of three is not too shappy! [/Humor]

 

My guess is that "Religion" is the odd man out?

[Guy Fawkes]

You've never been in a household when "Big Red" (Oklahoma) plays "Big Red" (Nebraska). Its a religion in my family.

 

As the result of one child having hysterics. It has become tradition that during those games the children are taken for Pizza. I am one of the ones that insists that I'm still a child.

 

My guess is that "Religion" is the odd man out?

[Phil_musc]

isn't there a thread for jock straps??

 

Yes, and there's even a general thread for douche bags (comes up fairly often)

[gallahadesquire]

An interesting view on the ruling:

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2560566-deflategate-ruling-further-annihilates-goodells-legacy-and-the-nfls-image?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial

 

Much light is being made of the quote, " His own brand of industrial justice." For the sake of the non-legal of us here, the original Supreme Court document (or portions thereof), Steelworkers vs Enterprise Car 363 US 593 (1960):

 

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/363/593/case.html

[gallahadesquire]

Well Water Sports has been discussed in the Fetish Forum!

 

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[+ purplekow]

This decision may have impact on collective bargaining agreements. It seems, and I only know what I read so please correct me if you like, that the commissioner was within his power to uphold the suspension of 4 games. The judge ruled that the original penalty was not adjudicated fairly and that the commissioner should have insured an unbiased investigation. The commissioner was predisposed and had an interest in keeping the original decision intact and therefore was not impartial and his decision was thereby overruled. Nowhere does it say that Brady didn't cheat. He just got away with it, well so far.

[bostonman]

This decision may have impact on collective bargaining agreements. It seems, and I only know what I read so please correct me if you like, that the commissioner was within his power to uphold the suspension of 4 games. The judge ruled that the original penalty was not adjudicated fairly and that the commissioner should have insured an unbiased investigation. The commissioner was predisposed and had an interest in keeping the original decision intact and therefore was not impartial and his decision was thereby overruled. Nowhere does it say that Brady didn't cheat. He just got away with it, well so far.

 

Well, there's also just the common sense part of this, if one steps back to look at it. Goodell has basically screwed up every disciplinary situation he's been in charge of, the capper being the Ray Rice debacle, which ended up (after settlement, and a huge mishandling of the case in the first place) being simply a 2-game suspension for knocking his wife unconscious in an elevator. So, for the (still unproven, like it or not) "deflategate" situation, I think Goodell lost his common sense, and was only thinking of himself. With a reputation for wimping out on punishment, he went way overboard on this one, with a fine, the loss of 2 draft picks, AND a FOUR game suspension. ALL of that for an unproven charge of deflating footballs.

 

I don't think it takes a judge to look at all of that and simply weigh Rice versus Brady, if nothing else. A player loses 2 games for beating his wife (evidence on video, which was ignored by Goodell UNTIL it became public and he had no choice but to deal with it). But then another player loses FOUR games, and his team loses a million dollars and 2 future players - all because there MIGHT have been some secret plotting going on to deflate game balls.

 

Being "within one's power to uphold" something loses its credibility if the one in power is grossly misusing said power. See also Kim Davis.