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I think this is both ridiculous and beyond silly.

 

Memo to Bucky Brooks,  Tom Brady was the Super Bowl MVP with perfectly inflated footballs.

 

The idea that deflategate should have him ranked in the top-5 with an asterisk shows a serious lack of common sense and thinking.

 

Shaking my damn head......   #embarrassing

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I think this is both ridiculous and beyond silly.

 

Memo to Bucky Brooks,  Tom Brady was the Super Bowl MVP with perfectly inflated footballs.

 

The idea that deflategate should have him ranked in the top-5 with an asterisk shows a serious lack of common sense and thinking.

 

Shaking my damn head......   #embarrassing

 

He got there by cheating though........

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I think this is both ridiculous and beyond silly.

Memo to Bucky Brooks, Tom Brady was the Super Bowl MVP with perfectly inflated footballs.

The idea that deflategate should have him ranked in the top-5 with an asterisk shows a serious lack of common sense and thinking.

Shaking my damn head...... #embarrassing

I get what you're saying but isn't that a 2015 list NCF?

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I think this is both ridiculous and beyond silly.

 

Memo to Bucky Brooks,  Tom Brady was the Super Bowl MVP with perfectly inflated footballs.

 

The idea that deflategate should have him ranked in the top-5 with an asterisk shows a serious lack of common sense and thinking.

 

Shaking my damn head......   #embarrassing

That's the thing about reputations, it's in the hands of everyone else.  Brady and the Patriots can only blame themselves.  Maybe they don't deserved this, but they sure as heck earned it.

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Where are the "so called posters" lol

 

Oh Shane-O...I know you think this is your big 'gotcha' moment since I said yesterday that there would be no asterisks next to the official records or lists of history...but you know this is just one writer putting an asterisk next to his name in his column...it's not exactly like NFL.com across the board put up an asterisk next to '2014 Champions: Patriots' or '2014 Superbowl MVP: Tom Brady.

 

But sure, go ahead and 'LOL' all day bud... ... ...

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Oh Shane-O...I know you think this is your big 'gotcha' moment since I said yesterday that there would be no asterisks next to the official records or lists of history...but you know this is just one writer putting an asterisk next to his name in his column...it's not exactly like NFL.com across the board put up an asterisk next to '2014 Champions: Patriots' or '2014 Superbowl MVP: Tom Brady.

 

But sure, go ahead and 'LOL' all day bud... ... ...

It proves my point that whether there in a record book or not the * remains.

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It proves my point that whether there in a record book or not the * remains.

 

I mean....I guess you can make the claim if you want...but really that was just one guy's opinion and he happened to have a platform. I could reference 5 other articles that don't share that view. 

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I mean....I guess you can make the claim if you want...but really that was just one guy's opinion and he happened to have a platform. I could reference 5 other articles that don't share that view. 

It's all opinions, and none of them matter in the grand scheme.

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It's all opinions, and none of them matter in the grand scheme.

 

Correct. My only point was that you guys can attach all the asterisks you want in your own heads, but the NFL will never officially attach one to anything...Shane can keep on jumping-jacking until he passes out, but it won't change a thing.

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Well.... ya, as far as I can tell....

I'm sorry, I'm sure you're making a point, but it's sailing right past me now....

I'm not following.... :scratch:

No biggie...I just think Brooks was just ranking them in the present and certainly not careers.

His asterisk was too much fun for carnivors like myself not to have a little fun with.

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Correct. My only point was that you guys can attach all the asterisks you want in your own heads, but the NFL will never officially attach one to anything...Shane can keep on jumping-jacking until he passes out, but it won't change a thing.

That's fine with me. If the NFL did put an * beside their name a large group of Patriots fans wouldn't acknowledge it or accept it, which is their right and that's also fine by me.

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I think this is both ridiculous and beyond silly.

 

Memo to Bucky Brooks,  Tom Brady was the Super Bowl MVP with perfectly inflated footballs.

 

The idea that deflategate should have him ranked in the top-5 with an asterisk shows a serious lack of common sense and thinking.

 

Shaking my damn head......   #embarrassing

 

 

Well, the Super Bowl game I watched, Brady won while on the sidelines.  Wilson essentially airmailed the Victory to Tom.  Just like Scott Norwood wide righted Bill Parcells to a great legacy.  I question whether NE should have even been there, because of the Ravens game before the Colts n the AFCCG.  I wonder if Jolly McNally had a hand in that game for Tom as well?  How many others over the years?  I wish Mr. Deflator could speak up.

 

I loved Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa when they were tearing up MLB.  Setting new records that were established before I was old enough to recognize them. But one day, when Sosa's bat exploded into a pile of wood chips and cork, I lost a lot of respect for him.  I thought he didn't need to cork his bat because he, like Bonds and McGwire, were already killing the juiced ball (a term used at that time) and didn't have to cheat to take a warning track out into a Homerun.  Set the HR record fair 'n square.  Come to find out it wasn't the ball that was juiced, it was the Players. Sosa, Bonds, McGwire and many more.  My respect fell for most every prolific Homerun hitter... save 1.  Ken Griffey, Jr.  My favorite player of all time now.  But he alone wasn't enough to save me as a MLB fan.  I say I'm a Reds fan, but I never watch a game anymore, TV or in the park/stadium.

 

Gamesmanship goes on in all sports.  But I count those as things as to get an advantage that aren't violating rules (like the ineligible/eligible dance the Pats played). But when it goes beyond and disregarding rules to exploit an advantage, you lose my support.  I still recognize that Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, and Brady are great in their own right.  Yet I still feel they were helped in ways others were not  and thus appears even better than they really are; as great as they are.  Because of Spygate, and deflategate (that appears to have gone on for some time) and swapping in practice balls into games (before the QB's lobbied to prep their own) etc..  I feel justified in my position.

 

Tom, you are exceptionally good, and HOF material.  But you will always have an asterisk to me, just like Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa  (and the other PED users Clemens etc...)

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Correct. My only point was that you guys can attach all the asterisks you want in your own heads, but the NFL will never officially attach one to anything...Shane can keep on jumping-jacking until he passes out, but it won't change a thing.

But Shane and Bucky Brooks are not the only ones with that opinion.

In fact, outside of the New Englang area, it is the vast majority that feel the pats are cheaters and have a asterisk next to everything the have won.

That's just the way it is and nothing will ever change that.

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Well, the Super Bowl game I watched, Brady won while on the sidelines.  Wilson essentially airmailed the Victory to Tom.  Just like Scott Norwood wide righted Bill Parcells to a great legacy.  I question whether NE should have even been there, because of the Ravens game before the Colts n the AFCCG.  I wonder if Jolly McNally had a hand in that game for Tom as well?  How many others over the years?  I wish Mr. Deflator could speak up.

 

I loved Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa when they were tearing up MLB.  Setting new records that were established before I was old enough to recognize them. But one day, when Sosa's bat exploded into a pile of wood chips and cork, I lost a lot of respect for him.  I thought he didn't need to cork his bat because he, like Bonds and McGwire, were already killing the juiced ball (a term used at that time) and didn't have to cheat to take a warning track out into a Homerun.  Set the HR record fair 'n square.  Come to find out it wasn't the ball that was juiced, it was the Players. Sosa, Bonds, McGwire and many more.  My respect fell for most every prolific Homerun hitter... save 1.  Ken Griffey, Jr.  My favorite player of all time now.  But he alone wasn't enough to save me as a MLB fan.  I say I'm a Reds fan, but I never watch a game anymore, TV or in the park/stadium.

 

Gamesmanship goes on in all sports.  But I count those as things as to get an advantage that aren't violating rules (like the ineligible/eligible dance the Pats played). But when it goes beyond and disregarding rules to exploit an advantage, you lose my support.  I still recognize that Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, and Brady are great in their own right.  Yet I still feel they were helped in ways others were not  and thus appears even better than they really are.  Because of Spygate, and deflategate (that appears to have gone on for some time) and swapping in practice balls into games (before the QB's lobbied to prep their own) etc..  I feel justified in my position.

 

Tom, you are exceptionally good, and HOF material.  But you will always have an asterisk to me, just like Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa  (and the other PED users Clemens etc...)

 

I understand New England won because of the interception and that Brady was on the sidelines,  but I believe it was Brady who was named MVP.    (Perhaps it was shared with Butler?)

 

Look,  I'm not offended by taking some air out of the footballs.   I said so back when it happened and in several other posts.

 

But I was/am offended by the cover-up and the effort by Kraft to deflect and not take responsibility.

 

I think most professional athletes wouldn't even call what Brady did cheating....  I think you used the word in your post -- Gamesmanship.

 

Just a very small competitive edge.   I think we'd all be surprised -- me included -- at how many teams do little things like that looking for some small edge.

 

I wouldn't even be surprised if the Colts are one of those teams.    I hope this entire episode never comes back to bite us in the rump.

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