The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady must serve the four-game suspension originally handed down by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for his role in deflating the footballs to be used by the Pats offense during the 2014 AFC Championship. Of course, this was nothing but a procedural […]
by Kent Sterling It’s not easy to be viewed as more arrogant than Bill Belichick, Bob Kraft, and Tom Brady. Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL have done that, but it doesn’t make Brady innocent. I’ve read the Richard Berman decision that vacated Brady’s four-game suspension, and not once are the words exonerate, innocent, or […]
by Kent Sterling Richard Nixon cheated to win the 1972 election, and Tom Brady is fingered in the Wells Report as someone who cheated to gain an advantage on the gridiron. Both were unnecessary. Nixon refused to turn over his audio tapes of meetings where crooked election tactics were planned and debriefed, but screwed up […]
by Kent Sterling Don’t get me wrong. I hate the New England Patriots – a miserable organization that values winning over all else, and that’s why the NFL is constantly uncovering rule violations used by Kraft/Belichick/Brady to gain an unfair advantage. To very loosely paraphrase Dean Vernon Wormer in Animal House, “Believing that victory thru […]
by Kent Sterling What is shown on NBC Sunday night between the commercials and garish pageantry of Katy Perry belting out the hits might be pretty good too. The Super Bowl drives me bats. Sorry, I can’t pay attention to the game. Nobody watches. The women at parties wait for the commercials, and the guys […]
by Bert Beiswanger Let’s make one thing clear: No one blames the Indianapolis Colts throttling at the hands of the New England Patriots on deflated footballs. Most Colts fans and Indy media are more concerned with with coaching/personnel/in-ability to make adjustments – any adjustment – that led to the embarrassment of a conference title game. […]
by Kent Sterling Deflategate is not about who won or lost the AFC Championship game Sunday night. The New England Patriots would have throttled the Indianapolis Colts if the game was played with boulders, a taped up bath towel, or a toaster oven instead of a football. The Patriots were the better and tougher team […]
by Kent Sterling Sunday’s AFC Championship will send one of two flawed teams to the Super Bowl. Which one, we don’t know. That’s why America will be riveted to this matchup with generational undertones. There are so many unknowns that projecting an outcome is silly, although I’ll do it today on my radio show (3p-6p […]
by Kent Sterling This wasn’t quite like watching Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis withering in front of our eyes in “Beetlejuice,” but it was close. Peyton Manning has gone from NFL MVP to less than competitive in the playoffs in less than one year. Manning has now gone one-and-done nine times in the postseason, but […]
by Kent Sterling Really smart people continue to treat the media like the enemy rather than making the small effort necessary to befriend and use it to their advantage. Dan Jenkins is a sportswriter at the end of a long career, and he posted a fake (supposedly satirical) interview with Tiger Woods. I haven’t read […]