by Kent Sterling Bill Simmons carps. It’s on his business card – “Bill Simmons – Carper-at-large”. Or it should be. So it was no surprise when he petulantly railed against Colts general manager Ryan Grigson yesterday for “squealing” on the Patriots for Deflategate.. Simmons attacked Grigson in a series of tweets that alternately expressed disgust […]
by Kent Sterling Cheaters are always compared to our nation’s 37th president who resigned in disgrace after cheating throughout the 1972 presidential election process that resulted in his re-election. At first, Richard Nixon consistently denied that cheating occurred, and later that he had any knowledge of whatever cheating had been done. Alexander Butterfield dropped the […]
by Kent Sterling It wouldn’t be a shock if the NFL runs public opinion polling with the same regularity as the White House when determining which course of action to take in a decision like the response likely to be announced this week to the Tom Brady appeal. Sadly, because of the vacillation the NFL […]
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 The NFL has no problem suspending players for extended periods because they get stoned, but a cheater is now expected to earn only a two-to-four game suspension for violating a rule that resulted in his team gaining a significant competitive advantage. Yeah, that makes sense. Mirroring our criminal justice system, addicts are […]
by Kent Sterling Attorneys are like magicians – everyone knows they are tricking us with sleight of speech and misdirection, but the good ones keep us guessing in wonderment. Don Yee is Tom Brady’s agent, and yesterday he pulled back the curtain as he clumsily tried to pull a rabbit out of his transparent hat […]
by Kent Sterling There are two ways to amass great wealth – inheritance and balls. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft put the second of those points of differentiation on display yesterday in front of the media gathered in Arizona for the Super Bowl. Net worth is a scorecard in life that has nothing whatsoever […]
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 There are undoubtedly NFL teams that look for any advantage they can gain within the rules, and a few that stretch their search into those realms that lie outside restrictions imposed by the NFL. If the NFL doesn’t bring down a massive hammer against the New England Patriots franchise that appears to […]
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 […]