Moments after the suspension was announced, this happened on the MassPike.
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/bo...ium=socialflow
Just wanted to stop by to read NL's comments, and I was not disappointed.
As for the ruling, had a feeling it would be 4 games (probably gonna get reduced to 2 after appeal), saw the fine coming (like a mil is anything to an NFL team) but the draft picks caught me off guard. Did not expect that coming. Is this the end of Brady and the Pats? Hell no. Watch as soon as tom comes back he's gonna throw for 600 yards a game and start playing defense too as a form of psycho-therapy. Why? Because he's Tom Brady, and he's been destined to make my football life a living hell.
Also fuck tom.
My theory for the harshness of the punishment: Goodell heard Tom was playing with balls that weren't full sized, and brought down the hammer for child molesting. When someone explains to him, with pictures and live demonstrations, that footballs can be inflated or deflated, his anus-like mouth will create the first truly perfect circle in the universe, Pi will shift to equal exactly 4, and all will be undone.
Got off easy IMO, considering its all the franchise has done the past decade.
gonna be some epic Simmons podcasts this week I bet
NL what are you even arguing for anymore? Are you just venting or do you really think your rants can change people's minds? I don't want to stop the fun at your expense, but I'm just making sure you aren't actually retarded. True or untrue, the Patriots will never shake the stigma. That sort of thing happens in this thing we call life. Whether you feel that's some huge conspiracy is beyond the point. The NFL won't skip a beat.
By far the most annoying part about this is the fact that it wouldn't have been anything if it was any other team. If it was the Titans it would of been nothing.
But it's the Patriots so it's the stiffest penalty in NFL history.
I could care less what stigma the Patriots have or don't have outside of New England. Why should I care what a bunch of uneducated retards think?
Maybe the Hispanic majority in twenty years will like Tom. Maybe they won't. Big fucking deal either way.
What I do care about is the fact that the Patriots are getting fucking rail roaded and anyone with even a sliver of honor and integrity knows it