To quote a text from the Deflator himself Jim McNally, “Tom sucks” and today the U.S. District Court of Minnesota confirmed this fact when Judge Richard Kyle ordered the transfer of Brady’s DeflateGate punishment appeal to New York.
Kyle said, in his ruling that he “sees little reason for this action to have been commenced in Minnesota at all… the arbitration proceedings took place in New York and the award was issued in New York.”
I love how he calls Brady’s four-game suspension an “award.”
Brady, of course, filed in Minnesota because the court there has been historically more favorable to players there, but this judge doesn’t play that game.
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It’s looked bleak for Brady since Goodell released his ruling Tuesday and, according to every legal analyst outside the 617 area code, presented a pretty ironclad argument in that decision that any judge would be hard-pressed to overturn. The NFL, in a calculated move that I’m sure wasn’t NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s idea, filed a preemptive court case in New York so the NFLPA and Brady couldn’t slink off to Minnesota to their favorite federal court. That plan obviously worked.
Wednesday, distraught over the fact that he was a soul-less sociopath and everyone on planet Earth knew it now, Tom Brady went to Facebook to complain because that’s the way mature adults operate with fully-functioning self-control systems.
Brady, pasting an entry from his Hello Kitty feelings journal, wrote:
“I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the 4 game suspension against me. I did nothing wrong, and no one in the Patriots organization did either… The fact is that neither I, nor any equipment person, did anything of which we have been accused. He dismissed my hours of testimony and it is disappointing that he found it unreliable… I also disagree with yesterdays narrative surrounding my cellphone. I replaced my broken Samsung phone with a new iPhone 6 AFTER my attorneys made it clear to the NFL that my actual phone device would not be subjected to investigation under ANY circumstances… Most importantly, I have never written, texted, emailed to anybody at anytime, anything related to football air pressure before this issue was raised at the AFC Championship game in January. To suggest that I destroyed a phone to avoid giving the NFL information it requested is completely wrong….”
Now that’s a whole lot of lies packed in one tear-filled missive on Facebook, but frankly for Facebook that’s probably nothing new. The fact that this wasn’t preceded by a couple of inspirational meme cat photos and a vague attack on “some of the haters out there” actually makes it really stand out as far as whiny Facebook complaint posts go. I’m sure Giselle helped him write it.
The irony of Brady’s stupid statement is it actually worked out good for somebody, Apple, Inc. Brady’s mention of switching from a Samsung phone to an iPhone cost Samsung $627,000 in “negative value” and gave Apple $7333,000 in free advertising.
How pissed is Samsung that the world is waking up reading about how Tom Brady switched to an iPhone 6 after his Samsung broke.
— Ben Sprague (@bensprague) July 29, 2015
Today, in what will become a standard refrain as the New England Patriots embark on their title defense, a New York Jets fan flew a “Cheaters look up” banner over their practice.
A plane just circled the practice fields with a flag that reads, "Cheaters look up @JetsFanMedia" pic.twitter.com/zG3b6212qQ
— Jeff Howe (@jeffphowe) July 30, 2015
Patriots owner Robert Kraft wasn’t happy about the ruling and came out swinging in that lazy, half-drunken, Robert Durst-ian way that he does. Kraft had already backed down on his own legal threats over the team’s side of the punishment, a $1 million fine and the loss of their 2016 first-round pick and a 2017 third-round pick.
“I apologize to our fans,” Kraft said. “I thought what I did in May would make it easier for the league to exonerate Tom Brady. I was wrong.”
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Indeed he was. Mainly because he didn’t want to go to court and have all the other nefarious cheats and tricks the Patriots have been guilty of over the past decade and a half come to light.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick, who inconceivably has come through all this smelling like a rose, refused to even talk about the ruling and instead focus on his team’s 2015 preparation and eventual first-round playoff defeat.
In the meantime we need to focus on what’s really important. What does this mean for gambling?
With Brady’s suspension upheld and unlikely to overturned by the courts, the Patriots’ odds took a hit at sportsbooks. Ironically it’s the Indianapolis Colts that have now taken over as the favorites to win the AFC with on average 8/1 odds.
