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NFL suspends Brady 4 games for deflated footballs

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By BARRY WILNER AND JIMMY GOLEN

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Retire, Mr. Brady.

And not for the reasons you are probably thinking---I'm a Patriots hater, I'm jealous because you married a super model and you seem to win the Super Bowl every other year---these are all true but not the reasons you should retire. You should retire because you still have moutains of money, four Super Bowl trophies, the gorgeous family and your health. TV studios will throw even more money at you and give you a platform to speak of how poorly you and the Patriots were treated. But most importantly you should retire to stick it to Commissioner-turned-dictator Roger Goodell. There has never been a more smug, self-serving, inconsistent commissioner in sport. Sepp Blatter must love you for you make him look good.

The league needs you Mr. Brady. Without you there is no truly elite quarterback and no one to play the Darth Vader-role you fill (which is why "Deflategate" is such a big deal). Without you who is the league standard at quarterback? Peyton Manning? Chokes in big games more than old men eating rice cakes on New Year's Eve. Russel Wilson? Not after that Super Bowl killing interception. Younger brother Eli? Tony Romo? Nope. Aaron Rodgers? OK, he's great but talk to me after he wins three Super Bowls. The loss of you Mr. Brady will hurt the league substantially. If you retire for this unfair treatment, the backlash against Goodell would be tremendous. I mean, Ray Rice cold-cocks his wife in an elevator and Goodell tries to hide it. When it came to light (Roger claimed he never saw the video) Rice got a two-game suspension until publilc pressure forced a stronger punishment. Goodell is destroying the NFL; the recent strike was in large part because he refused to negotiate with the players, he is head of a multi-billion dollars industry that will not support a pension plan for its retired players many of whom are crippled and his ruling is completely arbitrary. Roger's salary for the 2014 season? About $45 million. That's about what you and Peyton make together, Mr. Brady.

Like I wrote earlier, you have nothing left to prove. True football fans (not necessarily Patroit fans) know what you have achieved. You can walk off into the sunset with body, mind and bank account intact. You can also give other players who have been treated badly by Goodell the revenge they seek for if you retire the ire against Roger the Emperor will result in his removal.

Please, Mr. Brady, retire.

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Note to the fired equipment managers: in your next job, avoid giving yourself a nickname that reveals your culpability in any shady doings. At all costs avoid nicknames such as "Injector", "Fresh Prince of Ball Air" and "Swoosh."

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absolute silliness from the NFL, not to mention cowardly. The whole "incident" was brought to life by Colt's owner Jim Irsay, a devout hater of the Pats for years. Cowardly because Roger Goodall no doubt wanted to show that he can be tough with the NFL's most prominent white player after so many black players have been punished for murder, assault, child abuse, animal abuse, wife beating etc..

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I recall that just after this news became public, one of the Colts' players said that fully inflated balls wouldn't have helped them in that game. I find the punishment to be fitting.

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It's gonna be reduced on the appeal.

It's the "indefinitely suspended" equipment workers who got thrown under the bus - they were only pawns following orders!

(They wouldn't do it unless they were told. Now they won't get hired again.)

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Every channels in Vegas and vicinity, we got message from media Gamblers: Don't Bet on Brady.

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Did the under-inflated balls help Brady? They must have or he wouldn't have specified to the handlers that he likes the pressure below the lower limit specified in the rule book. Did they help enough to cause the Colts to lose? Probably not. The Colts were scored against even MORE in the second half when the balls were back at the proper pressure.

The penalty Brady has been assessed is for lying after the fact when he told investigators he had no idea who the ball handlers were. Text messages by the handlers and testimony by one of the handlers refute this. Brady refused to allow investigators to take a look at HIS text messages.

The penalties the Patriots were assessed was mainly because they are "repeat offenders" and did everything in their power to thwart this investigation. This is the second time in less than a decade that the Patriots have been caught intentionally breaking the rules. First there was "SpyGate" and now "DeflateGate".

The "indefinitely suspended" ball handlers may as well find other employment. In order to avoid this kind of thing in the future, I'm sure a new rule will be enacted requiring ALL game balls to be in the possession of NFL staff from the time they're inspected by the officials until the end of the game.

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