Let us wail and moan and rend our garments, woe, for Brady is champion.
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Ha. I should have been more precise in my "post" notation, you're right. I'll say that, at sixteen, a multitude of things swayed my opinion but cartoons were not among them.
ifmanis5 said:Gisele could play Nova in the movie?
If there's not a thread in P&G called "Cartoon Characters I'd Like to Bang", then I don't even know what SoSH is any more. (I was always partial to Calvin's mom in Calvin & Hobbes myself...but that's probably a third-order digression.)
Several of the posts up thread ridiculed the notion that some jackass like the CHB or Kravitz would question the propriety of Tom's payments.
Indeed, it sounds highly implausible and unlikely. Indeed, this sounds like gifts to lineman and other presents routinely bestowed on other players by teammates, especially highly paid QBs.
But how many people can say that the notion didn't pass though their heads for at least a moment, even if it was quickly dismissed?
My guess is not many.
Thanks for making us all a little bit crazy, albeit at different degrees, Roger.
Indeed, it sounds highly implausible and unlikely. Indeed, this sounds like gifts to lineman and other presents routinely bestowed on other players by teammates, especially highly paid QBs.
But how many people can say that the notion didn't pass though their heads for at least a moment, even if it was quickly dismissed?
My guess is not many.
Thanks for making us all a little bit crazy, albeit at different degrees, Roger.
Let what go? A lack of trust in the NFL's ability to separate misdemeanors or nothings from serious crimes?Bosoxen said:
My observation is that between SpyGate and DeflateGate, and really much more the latter, it's hard to blame ANYONE for having fleeting thoughts that even the most minor things or absolute nothings will get turned into big things. Hell, I read a report yesterday that had a quote from an anonymous AFC owner conceding that they let the DG molehill turn into a mountain.
If you don't understand how the sum total of DG makes Pats and likely other fans question -- even for just a few seconds -- how the NFL might handle the next piece of nothing that comes along, that's pretty strange to me.
* And one more thing: The ESPN OTL report claimed that the NFL seized on DG partially because there was a sense that the league was too lenient re SpyGate. I don't know if that is accurate. But it it is accurate, it suggests that the Pats may again find themselves being prosecuted for a nothing violation. To be clear, I have no doubt that what Brady did here will amount to nothing. And I am cognizant that the NFL shut down the headset stuff immediately. Still, the point remains. It's hard to blame Pats fans for first thinking that the NFL will twist almost anything into a violation, even if those initial thoughts are immediately rejected as the product of paranoia.
The fleeting thoughts are unreasonable given the NFL's approach to everything that has even hinted of controversial wrongdoing since the first coin was flipped in week 1 -- they stamp it out like a fire within 24 hours. The bs with the comms in Fox, and the League's swift reaction to it, set the tone.
The idiots know not even to go there.
The idiots know not even to go there.
Any person can give another person a gift of up to 14,000 dollars annually tax free to both parties. So Brady can give whatever he wants to people, it isn't illegal in any way whatsoever.
If anyone is feeling generous I accept PayPal. Looking to put in an inground pool this spring for the kids.
That's of course, true.Bosoxen said:
And maybe DC is right that it's totally unreasonable to think that the NFL would pursue this.
That said, I still think it's understandable that after enduring the NFL's foolishness re DG for as long as we have (and still are with the appeal), that some Pats fans' first reaction is "what will the NFL -- or as I first wrote, an opportunist like Kravitz or the CHB -- do with this bit of nothing?" My obseravtion is not that it's a reasonable reaction. It's that it's a commentary on what we've experienced that even the silliest things cause some less hard boiled folks to wonder, even if only for a few moments.
So your point is: maybe someone somewhere that might do something about it thought there might be something wrong with Brady giving something to his teammates?
Let's just wait until there's an actual fire before calling the fire department.
Let's just wait until there's an actual fire before calling the fire department.
It's kind of amazing to me that BBtL is now taking the lead in inventing new Patriots crimes.
It's bonkers.
It's bonkers.
MarcSullivaFan said:
This one is particularly egregious. There is nothing here. Too much victimization. It really does need to stop. KfP is right.
I always thought the saying was "vermin". Learn something new every day.dcmissle said:
And yes, Human Fund is fine.
GeorgeCostanza said:
The one time the guy references a non-mobster movie and you have to go muck it up.
We've been conditioned.MarcSullivaFan said:
We're now pushing the boundaries on Pat's paranoia
and speaking from personal experience, it's "varmints"
Yeah, the piling on is overstating the point. I don't think anyone thinks there's actually anything to see here.
What is noteworthy, in perhaps just my view, is that ridiculous nothings like can cause people to even register that someone like Bob Kravitz might try to make something of it. We live in a world, after all, when guys like Ben Volin make multiple identification mistakes and have to retract, with seemingly no consequences.
That almost everyone (including me) then concludes "no, that's ridiculous," doesn't negate that being subjected to DG makes some folks wonder for a few seconds before moving on.
Put it this way: Before the two Gates, no one would have thought twice about a QB gifting his DBs. That it even flashes through some heads shows how pathetic this all is. Or is one more thing that shows that.
What is noteworthy, in perhaps just my view, is that ridiculous nothings like can cause people to even register that someone like Bob Kravitz might try to make something of it. We live in a world, after all, when guys like Ben Volin make multiple identification mistakes and have to retract, with seemingly no consequences.
That almost everyone (including me) then concludes "no, that's ridiculous," doesn't negate that being subjected to DG makes some folks wonder for a few seconds before moving on.
Put it this way: Before the two Gates, no one would have thought twice about a QB gifting his DBs. That it even flashes through some heads shows how pathetic this all is. Or is one more thing that shows that.
Looks like varmint and vermin are pretty interchangeable. And I obviously missed the reference, so my apologies there. I'm not very cultured.Marciano490 said:
It's actually one of the "recommended stories" on the front of CNN.com. "Brady paid players that intercepted him?" with the every popular faux "?" headline.
This is how stupid the NFL has become.
This is how stupid the NFL has become.
Ed Hillel said:
Putting VR Troopers and Star Blazers in the same sentence is like putting Ryan Tannehill and Tom Brady in the same sentence.
deanx0 said:
Star Blazer was pretty good...even great. But was it really "Tom Brady" level of great?
And where does Robotech enter into it?
