The Patriot Way

Goodell will never be fired by the owners as long as the cash cow that is the NFL is still churning out money.  I tend to think of it this way in that I bet behind the scenese the powers that be in the NFL and the owners are smiling with all of the attention.  Why?  because people are going to so fed up with all of the spygate, deflate gates, etc. they will even be MORE hungry just to watch some football.  And it even might draw in the more casual fan to watch football.  Interest is greater, ratings higher, and revenue is higher. 

 

All I know is that I am one of those fans who is just fed up and just wanted to watch some football and get back to what is important.  HATING the Bears.

Hungry5, I agree that Goodell won't be fired.  I just have to believe that at some point, the owners will have had enough and oust him.  The question is, what is enough?  Would Goodell actually have to kill someone for the owners to fire him?  

31 billionaires bring 31 egos to the table. At some point these guys will be convinced that their product is what's bringing in the cash flow, not Goodell. 

Goodell is the designated fall guy

At what point in time would you fire the guy who takes all of the schit on your behalf while you lounge on your yacht, blissfully immune to all of it ?

 

When they talk about Protecting the Shield, they are referring to Goodell

He's their Shield.

IL, the owners already believe that. Agree with Satori's point.

 

IMO most of the owners' views about having this moron as Commissioner haven't reached firing level yet since none of his missteps have affected the bottom line.

 

Indeed having a wounded Commish ain't bad from an owner's perspective. Even harder for him to tell them what to do. Witness Danny Snyder flaunting the racist nickname and conducting utterly transparent attempts to bribe small, targeted Native American groups. Nary a word, cajol, or push from the protector of the shield.

 

Goodell's hold card is that he has demonstrated absolute venality on the one issue that truly threatens the long term viability of the game -- concussions. Goodell orchestrated the coverup and continues to execute it, NFL HQ lies and and tries to censor media reporting attempts, his legal team pulled off the settlement with the retired players, and the humina-humina rhetoric about funding research and player safety continues. Put in a new Commissioner, especially one outside the NFL HQ orbit, and that could change.

 

Roger Goodell is an idiot, but a useful one to most owners.

There will be a point where the owners will fire Goodell. When the PR is so bad that the blowback starts hitting them and then he will fall on his sword for them.  He's a puppet, they can find some other schmuck who will do what they say just like Rog. It will be "a bold move that will signal a shift in NFL culture and blah blah blah..." Then stories will leak about how dysfunctional the league was under Goodell and how things are different...the same stuff we hear every time a coach or GM is fired and the new savior arrives. Goodell is expendable.

Another problem may be that Goodell knows where all the bodies are buried. Who knows what else has been covered up?

Heard this on the radio on the way to work:  The rest of the owners were royally pissed off about Spygate, since the Patriots cheated them out of what could have been their glory, literally, and even more pissed off about the slap on the wrist they got over it.  So Gooddell body slams the Patriots on Deflate-gate even though the evidence was thin, as a make-up call to the other owners for Spygate.  (And loses on appeal.)

 

So I'd guess Goodell keeping his job is not about profiting or blackmail, it's still about getting back at the organization everyone hates, and in the the owners' minds, Gooddell's their best shot to do that.  He still owes them.  I mean he tried this time, and presumably still will in the future.

 

So it's about what it should be about:  revenge on the Cheatriots.  (Screw that entire organization.)

 

Any word on what Myles White thinks about this?

He's wondering: Ed Williams? Really?

More like: that guy's a moderator?

What I'm interested in is Myles White's opinion is on the constant unfortunate rumors that Micah Hyde tells racist jokes.

Ah. Now I get it.

 

Myles White, the new and unimproved Micah Hyde

Myles White, the new and unimproved Tori Gurley.

White was way better than Gurley, people just wanted Gurley cuz he was tall and muscly!!! Chubby chasers.

 

And if that's true then who's Micah Hyde?

 

Can't keep up and don't care.  Here's a picture of our base camp on my upcoming boys' trip: 1 week for the Mule deer and Bear opener in X9A Zone:  Tioga Lake, Sierra Nevada Mountains.  Lakes are chock full of trout.  Coolers with adult beverages.  (After that, some stupid all-inclusive place in Cancun I have to go on with the girlfriend, oh well.)

 

No I guess it is the Mayan Riviera.  This fn place. (You Gurley-men would probably prefer it.) Going to miss a Packer game for this.

 

I'd take the girl to the lake and go with the boys to hunt for beaver in Mexico

 

[FYI and in case PETA is reading, my buddy has the deer tag.  I have a bear tag but there's like zero chance I actually shoot a bear.] 

are you a dentist by any chance?

Myles White and I are meeting up here for some hardcore history and some creamy Jeezus snacks.

 

 

 

 

Holy crap! Only in Florida. 

 

Had to Google it.  Be sure to check out the daily crucifixion. (They don't use real nails.)

 

 

Fudge 'em all.

Kraft and Goodell are pricks, and deserve every bit of strife and turmoil that comes their way. The next owners' meeting should be interesting...

Ditto for Belichick. His own **** has/will stain his legacy, and what could be better?

 

No matter how factual any of this proves to be, the perception of the Patriots being cheaters will always remain, IMHO. And, again, it couldn't happen to a more deserving team.

 

 

The mold continues to grow....

 

QUOTE by Al Harris the night of 11/19/2006 after the Patriots beat the Packers 35-0.

http://sportsbiznews.blogspot....-oh-yes-spygate.html

 

“It’s almost like they knew what we were doing, you know?” he said. “You have to tip your hat to them. They ran plays designed for us. They ran plays that made us check out of some things. I don’t know who calls their plays, but Belichick is pretty good. Honestly, he’s pretty good.”

 

That was the first M3 vs Bellichick showdown.

2 weeks later Mangini came to Lambeau and beat the Pack 38-10.

 

F&%K THOSE CHEATERS!!!

Great post Bartman!

 

**** those ****ing ****s.

 

CHEATERS!

 

I was at that game and it was ugly.  Favre went down with an elbow injury and Rodgers came in and played the rest of the game.  Rodgers ended up breaking his foot and was out for the season.  I thought to myself  "This guy sucks".  Boy was I wrong. Now that I look back at that game it shows that Rodgers is a pretty tough SOB playing on a broken foot the whole game. 

Thanks Bartmandude!  I was at that game too.  Worst sporting event I ever witnessed. It was uncanny: every time we ran a blitz, the ball went to the open spot.  Every time we tried anything on offense, there were 2 defenders waiting, and not because they beat their guy, just waiting (for the screen or draw or flat pass or whatever). We could see it all from our seats and kept saying the same thing: "It's like they know our plays!"

 

My personal impact-of-Spygate story:  I was at the game with my brother, his kids and our old man.  The weather was so terrible and the game so unwatchable (there was never a single competitive play, let alone a score), we just turned it into a family party.  My brother was in rare form and made sure we all had a blast in the freezing cold, even though the game just sucked.  At the time, I chalked the good moods up to it being all of our vacations and we actually came back to GB from deer hunting up North for the game.

 

Turns out, the whole time my brother was hiding from us that his cancer was back after being in remission for over a year.  He didn't tell anyone until after I flew back to California, and he died 67 days later, on January 25, 2007. He was 49.

 

So when I think of Spygate, I have an intensely positive memory of my brother entertaining us all in crappy weather at Lambeau during the worst game ever,  and the memory is as good as they get (although one last "Lambeau high 5" would have been nice).

 

The reason I'd like to see Bellicheat banned?  The young German guy I met on the commuter flight flying in that weekend.  First time in the U.S., he told me he saved up for a whole year to come to an NFL game, specifically a Green Bay Packers game.  The guy was by himself and just thrilled to be flying into Green Bay.  We sat in the back of the plane and talked football and drank Miller Genuine Drafts.  I bought the first round, and he kept staring at the can like he was memorizing everything (I posted this in the I-was-at-the-game thread).

 

For that guy, who probably told everyone American Football sucked, Bellicheat should get his ass beat and be banned for life.  (Okay just banned for life.)

Turns out, the whole time my brother was hiding from us that his cancer was back after being in remission for over a year.  He didn't tell anyone until after I flew back to California, and he died 67 days later, on January 25, 2007. He was 49.

 

OMGosh Pistol......so sorry.    

Your brother sounds like one special man.

OMG  Goalline you have no idea!  And his tailgates at the old Godfather's (by Kroll's) were legendary.  It was reserved for him for no charge they liked him so much.

Christians turn the other cheek...if you actually had any hair on your ass you'd entertain us with some Mohammad cartoons. 

 

Same bag of hammers.

 

There you go.

 

 

http://deadspin.com/why-your-t...%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Social media is hilarious this morning with the Patsies puff piece airing last night. "See, that's why we're champions! We didn't cheat! It's all brilliant strategery!""

Beyond the deflated balls, there are more reasons to believe they cheated their way to a SB 49 victory than not.

 

 

 

 

Old article, but really all that needs to be said.  

 

http://www.slate.com/articles/..._after_a_2006.2.html

 

Rex Ryan: “I can’t wait to see what our fans are going to be like when you have the hated Patriots — I mean, this kind of rival coming in."

— Mike Rodak (@mikerodak) September 14, 2015

 

The Pats aren't looking forward to facing that defense, that's for sure.