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#1,411
Swanky Mama Of Three said:
Most of these guys get no discipline for bad behavior off the field, Rice wouldn't have either if the public didn't have such an outcry over the video.
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They are selective who gets suspensions for Behaviour off the field. Goes all the way back to 1925. List is way too long to post here.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suspensions_in_the_National_Football_League

What I can't figure out is why they penalized the team with draft picks and fine. Report showed no one else in team aware except TB and the "deflators.".
 
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Here in Dallas we joke about our teams being the rehab teams, it's like Jerry Jones, and once in a while Cuban and the Rangers seem to gravitate to bad guys.
"Here's a few million, must've been really annoyed w/ your girlfriend to have beaten the ish out of her, poor guy. . . "

You can tell when tv/social media began to make a difference in that list IMO.
 
#1,413
Longchamp said:
What I can't figure out is why they penalized the team with draft picks and fine. Report showed no one else in team aware except TB and the "deflators.".
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It isn't unusual for a team to be penalized for one person cheating. Remember the Patriots also lost a first round draft pick back in 2007 when Belichick was caught videotaping the sideline hand signals of the New York Jets. The incident was called Spygate and Belichick was personally fined $500,000. He was breaking the rules to give his team an advantage, just the same as Brady was doing this year.

I think the NFL is sending the Patriots organization a message, particularly since they believe that this wasn't the only game last year that it happened:

Breer also announced, per the NFL's release, that the New England Patriots were fined $1 million and will lose a first-round draft pick in 2016 and a fourth-round pick in the 2017 draft. Adam Schefter reported that the Patriots' fine is the largest in NFL history. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network quoted Vincent's statement, saying, "While we cannot be certain when the activity began, evidence suggests that 1/18 was not the first and only occasion."
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...iots-fined-lose-2-draft-picks-for-deflategate
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bag-mania said:
It isn't unusual for a team to be penalized for one person cheating. Remember the Patriots also lost a first round draft pick back in 2007 when Belichick was caught videotaping the sideline hand signals of the New York Jets. The incident was called Spygate and Belichick was personally fined $500,000. He was breaking the rules to give his team an advantage, just the same as Brady was doing this year.

I think the NFL is sending the Patriots organization a message, particularly since they believe that this wasn't the only game last year that it happened:
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Yes think the colts were first to report it.
That will bradys first game when he returns with the colts.
Watch out Colts. Nothing like a scorned TB. Ha ha.

Also meant to say that fining the team with draft picks because of head coach is different than fining the team with player infraction. Havent looked if that has been done in the past.
 
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If nothing else Brady inspired the creation of more memes! :D
 

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Ex-NFL QB A.J. Feeley: I saw Patriots use tampered footballs in 2004

Former NFL quarterback A.J. Feeley says he saw the New England Patriots use doctored footballs years before the NFL instituted a rule dictating their preparation for game play.

Feeley, who last played in the NFL in 2011, said that when he was playing for the Miami Dolphins during the 2004 season, he witnessed Patriots quarterback Tom Brady using broken-in balls during a game, although the league mandated that teams use new footballs provided by the NFL. The rule was changed in 2006 to allow teams to use their own prepared footballs.
Feeley says he tried to address the issue with members of his coaching staff and other players on the team at the time.

“Prior to Tommy and Peyton Manning going to the league and saying, ‘Let us doctor our balls,’ we used to all play with the same balls,” Feeley said on 97.5 The Fanatic. “Somehow this beat-up ball from the ball boy was getting thrown in on offense for New England, yet when we were on offense this orange brand new ball was getting thrown in.”

“He’s getting his own balls thrown in on offense,” Feeley said. “That was an issue to me at the time."

The NFL suspended Patriots quarterback Tom Brady four games without pay for his role in Deflategate.

The team was fined $1 million and will lose a first-round draft pick in 2016 and a fourth-round draft pick in 2017 after the league said it was "more probable than not" that Brady knew about two Patriots locker room staff members tampering with footballs.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/05/13/aj-feeley-tom-brady-deflategate
 
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Jim Kelly: There is no doubt Tom Brady cheated
Larry Brown Sports
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...iders-chargers-deal-in-los-angeles/ar-BBk6ypI



Biggest cheaters in sports Leave it to a Hall of Fame quarterback to put Tom Brady’s role in Deflategate into proper perspective.


Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly joined “We Need to Talk” on CBS Sports and said there was “no doubt” Brady cheated.
“Oh, there’s no doubt,” Kelly said. “There’s no way that an equipment manager in the National Football League is going to do something to the football without the greatest quarterback ever to play knowing … ”
Just like all the box scores could tell us, Brady has been successful regardless of what kind of football he uses. In Kelly’s words, the Patriots Super Bowl MVP can “throw a football if it was over-inflated or deflated.” That makes him wonder why his “good friend” would cheat.
“You do something like that, you’re going to get caught,” Kelly said. “And Tom didn’t need to do it … but why?”
The answer is because he feels more comfortable throwing a deflated ball, just like many other QBs. Brady likes an under-inflated ball, while Aaron Rodgers prefers an overinflated ball. It’s just preference. But having an equipment guy take air out of the balls after the referees checked them is blatantly breaking the rules, and there’s no need for it. But when you’re talking about an organization that videotapes other teams’ signals and allegedly cuts out headsets, this sort of thing should not come as a surprise.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/jim-kelly-there-is-no-doubt-tom-brady-cheated/ar-BBk6GyF
 
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Jim Kelly said it all when he said *he didn't need to do it*. Brady is so talented that the football inflation is immaterial. So why break the rules? All I can think of is the culture of cheating that Belichek encourages on the team. Over and over they've done things that break or severely bend the rules. It's pathetic really.
 
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