Seems like some powerful owners are on Goodell's side

[justasportsfan]

as for this story, it seems like kraft got the wrong PR info, then realized a court case would open him up to subpeona's and other things that prove the extent of their cheating.

I didn't think he'd be worried about this knowing he can destroy evidence quickly.

[Goobylal]

He already admitted that the Cheaters were guilty when he fired the two flunkies, despite claiming the Patriots were innocent of any wrongdoing. Why fire them if they did nothing wrong? This is him accepting the team's punishment, like Altanta and Cleveland accepted their punishments. Brady is still going to fight it, but he'll lose because, even if he wasn't the mastermind, he should have known the balls were under-inflated and ignorance on his part isn't a valid defense.

[trapezeus]

by being angry about it, it gives weight that deflated footballs mean something. and frankly, i think he's worried if his other cheating comes out.

they are tweaking all these rules past the rulebook and claiming individually these things don't make a difference. but in conjunction with all they do, it is a significant edge as evidenced by their outlier status.

[DynaPaul]

I've been an NFL and AFL fan for 55 years, and I'm telling you this Deflategate crap is horse**** and Pete Ro2elle and Paul Tagliabue would have never ****ed this thing up so badly.

Goodell is either out of his mind or an incompetent boob, and he's going down because of this.

That's right. He did screw everything up. Tagliabue and Rozelle would have banished Belichick from the league after SpyGate instead of allowing this to fester.

[CommissarSpartacus]

That's right. He did screw everything up. Tagliabue and Rozelle would have banished Belichick from the league after SpyGate instead of allowing this to fester.

Dream on.

Paul Tagliabue exonerated Jonathan Vilma, which is one reason Goodell WON'T ask the former commissioner to arbitrate Brady's case.