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Lawrence Phillips, Rae Carruth and Roger Goodell are in a room. You have a gun with two bullets. Who do you shoot?

 

Goodell, then yourself.
Either Lawrence or Rae Rae will kill you anyway.

 

Tom Brady, left, leaves the courthouse in preparation for a night of sweet but forceful lovemaking with former Fox News commentator Jane Skinner.

 

Berman's job was assess Goodell and the NFL's procedural handling of Brady's suspension, not weigh his guilt or innocence. Berman ruled that Goodell and the NFL never informed Brady he could face a suspension, nor that it would be equal to that of a PED user. Berman also dinged the NFL for not giving Brady and his lawyers a chance to cross examine Pash and for not giving equal access to evidence.

He did not rule that Brady was innocent. Also of note is that the arbitrator's factual findings were not under review.

 

True. But during the proceedings, he also asked what evidence the NFL had of Brady being involved in deflation of footballs in the AFC championship game, that it was missing from the Wells report. The league had no answer.

So while everyone outside of New England would assume that "Brady got away with it," it was never proven. And yes, while Patriots fans do see this as vindication, we have every reason to believe so.

 

Listening to Dan Dakich's show here in Indiana has been beyond insufferable. Brady's "cheating" is a foregone conclusion, he just got off on technicalities.

 

This. I might be able to get on board with cheering for the Pats to deliver fuck you beatdowns to the league if it wasn't just for one complication--the encouragement it would give Boston area sports fans--who collectively have to be the most insufferably annoying lot in any market anywhere. And I say that as former kid Sox/Celtic fan later forced to abandon those loyalties after realizing I could not in good conscience support any team whose success would cause those people to become even louder and more intolerable.

 

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 2m2 minutes ago
Looks like @Patriots have changed their Twitter avatar; it is now a picture of Tom Brady, arms in air, celebrating with Lombardi Trophy.

This is getting pretty good, I have to admit.

 

Listening to Dan Dakich anytime is insufferable.

 

Elegant in its simplicity: