Tommy's right and you, Roger Goodell and all the fans of 31 other teams that hate him are wrong.
The fact that the NFL has tried to pull a fast one by trying to go to court immediately on releasing the decision on the appeal shows they have no confidence in their own case and are trying to bluster and intimidate their way to saving their own sorry behinds.
They have also defacto admitted that the Wells report was trash by putting the emphasis for the decision on the destruction of the cell phone, an irrelevant issue. In law slang they're called fishing expeditions.
To any disinterested observer, the NFL's case is trash and the suspension will be overturned. The science doesn't hold up, the league and certain owners behavior stinks of collusion and conspiracy.
Goodell now obviously considers himself the embodiment of the NFL, and his credibility is the league's credibility, and is willing to try to trash the league's most famous player to save that credibility.
How's this for a scenario?
Brady gets an injunction permitting him to play and starts the court proceedings.
Brady's suspension is overturned in court.
Brady plays every game and the Pats win the Superbowl.
Then he takes the trophy from Goodell, punches him in the mouth and announces his retirement with a big "**** you!" to his haters.
I could definitely see that happening...
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/07/28...troy-cellphone
eflategate science doesn't add up but neither does Brady's decision to destroy cellphone 0
John Kryk
By John Kryk, Postmedia Network
First posted: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -
If you actually read Ted Wells' report with an open, disinterested mind, you more likely than not concluded Tom Brady and the New England Patriots conspired to do nothing beyond smashing the living daylights out of the Indianapolis Colts on Jan. 18.
The more skeptical Deflate-gate disbelievers have charged that Wells led a prosecutorial investigation, whose asterisked findings were based on jerry-rigged science and disconcerting leaps to conclusion, so as to implicate the alleged football-deflating conspirators, led by Brady.
To me, the science is the most troubling element of the report.
Despite what commissioner Roger Goodell insisted in his 20-page appeal-denial Tuesday,
the science in the Wells report really is thinner than a starved giraffe.
To believe it, even in its most indicting light, you have to believe the Patriots let out negligible amounts of air -- less than half a pound, in most cases -- from not all, but from just eight of the 11 footballs tested at halftime.
Specifically,
Patriots balls on the most incriminating gauge measured 0.17, 0.22, 0.22, 0.37, 0.42, 0.47, 0.62 and 0.82 PSI short of the conditions-adjusted threshold of 11.32 to 11.52 PSI as determined by Wells' own engineering consultants.
Of the other three balls, two were within the acceptable range and one was above it. (On the other gauge, eight of the 11 Patriots balls were within or above the acceptable range).
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