Brady Suspended

The NFL wanted to punish someone for a crime that probably (and generally) was not committed. And the "unbiased" organization that was hired to leap to inept conclusions, used poor logic, and faulty reasoning while being paid a boatload of money, on a regular basis, by the NFL. Even the e-mail messages don't clearly indicate they were talking about breaking league rules, but merely providing Brady lower-inflated balls, all of the time as a matter of course, because he preferred them, and that he has preferred them that way his whole career. There was no conspiracy.
 IF you wish to read a more accurate account of what happened, and why it was so wrong, you may find this well-researched article enlightening:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/10/pressure-gauge-discrepancies-undermine-wells-report/

The NFL doesn't conclusively have a victim, a perp, or a smoking gun, but they decided to punish the Patriots anyway. This misbegotten case will be discussed in law schools for decades.

If I were New England or Tom Brady, I would go after the person writing the conclusions in the Wells Report, and find out who pressured him to come to such poor conclusions. That's where the real story is.

I can't wait to see what happens next.

On an unrelated but equally compelling sports report: A higher court ruled that Barry Bonds was innocent of all wrong-doing in the government's multi-million dollar case against him several years ago. That reversed an earlier court ruling. Their conclusion? There was no real evidence against him. Everything was conjecture with poor reasoning, and that conjecture should have never been allowed in a court of law in the first place. The case should have never been taken to court in the first place. Of course, no one heard this final report because there was no media coverage.

Baseball wanted him found guilty. It took years, but baseball failed. There is a lesson there for NFL officials. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

One last point, if YOU were married to the most well-known fashion model in the world, and you could take pictures with your smart phone, would YOU turn over YOUR phone to investigators who wish to look at your "e-mails"? I wouldn't either. Pictures have a way of showing up on the internet.

And privacy and confidentiality has never been a sports league's strong suit.