Robert Kraft-Patriots won't appeal ruling

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48. I think once they lied about how accessible the ball boy was (and they did lie about that)

he figured he wasn't going to get a fair shake.

Also, I wouldn't trust some ass that had the Thank You For Smoking/asbestos doesn't harm auto workers team to keep my personal information safe. Lord only knows what was on his cellphone that was entirely unrelated to football but might be of a very personal nature--and he's going to hand that over to someone who was given an agenda to burn him (and that agenda has been pretty much admitted by the NFL commissioner)? Or to people who leaked FALSE information like a sieve? Screw that.


Goodell doesn’t answer question about media leaks

During Wednesday’s press conference that ended the quarterly ownership meeting in San Francisco, Tom Curran of CSN New England asked Commissioner Roger Goodell a pointed question regarding media leaks by the league during the #DeflateGate investigation.

In response, Goodell referred generally to the report generated by Ted Wells. When Curran followed with a specific question about the league’s leak of the false information that 11 of the 12 Patriots footballs were two pounds under the 12.5 PSI minimum, Goodell said that Ted Wells “had the opportunity to evaluate that.”

While Wells may have had the opportunity to evaluate whether the NFL deliberately leaked false PSI data, possibly to create an opening narrative of presumed tampering that would trigger a scorched-earth investigation of the Patriots, Wells didn’t address the topic at all in his report.

As noted by Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, Wells devoted only one paragraph to the notion that the investigation arose in whole or in part from an agenda against the Patriots. The 243-page document says nothing about whether Wells explored the leak of false information — a leak that likely led directly to the decision to bring in Wells for another multi-million-dollar probe....

It's starting to look like the NFL wanted to give other, underperforming teams the opportunity to win by trying to kneecap the team that did the hard work. The longer this goes on, the more that people who don't even particularly like the Patriots are acknowledging this. They're probably saying this because no one likes rule by decree, and arbitrary decision making, and they know that there but for the grace of talent and effort go they.

More at link. NFL is looking like idiots. This will probably end up in court, Goodell will end up on the stand, and he won't be a happy camper if it comes to that. Hope he's got another gig to go to, because he's being shown the exit and he doesn't apparently even realize it.