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Post by adpz on Feb 3, 2015 22:04:24 GMT -5
The whole LaGarrette Blount thing was fishy this season - he played a big part in the Flats* playoff run. Shall we vacate the Flats* season if tampering turns up? What say you? Among Spygate, DeflateGate and BlountThingieGate, I actually think that BlountThingieGate is by far the worst if true. It will be buried though because of the DeflateGate feeding frenzy and because Pitt didn't "have" to cut him and the other teams in the league didn't "have" to let him pass through waivers. That said, if true, I think it is horribly anti-competitive (by both Blount and NE) and deserving of harsh punishment. Vacating the season though? The NFL is not the NCAA. The 2014-15 season is in the books, for good or for bad. I don't think anything is going to come of it - because yeah - PIT cut him. And this isn't the first time this sort of thing has come up with teams around the league. The problem I have, is that when sportsmanship gets abrogated, then the sport/league (NFL) has to come along and make a new rule to prevent it happening again. And then we have a situation where there are rules upon rules upon rules and almost no one anywhere is ever not in danger of breaking the rules. it's very hard to put the genie back in the bottle. And - slightly OT - there were some terrible non-calls on both SEA and PATS in the SB. I just at there wondering - like the refs seem befuddled to call actual penalties in case they got too bogged down in the minutae of calling all the ticky-tack stuff they called all season long. Officiating just doesn't LOOK the way it used to. . .
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Post by afceastfan on Feb 3, 2015 22:09:58 GMT -5
Which also MASSIVELY points out to me why we have that thing called 'sportsmanship' anyhow - essentially an agreement to play within the rules of the game, both written and unwritten - so that the good nature of sport doesn't have to devolve into weenis-y legalese. In a league with a 200 page rulebook chock full of legalese and that cannot keep its own players from juicing with PED's, I would submit that you are expecting far too much.
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Post by Hotman on Feb 4, 2015 6:26:46 GMT -5
I don't know how you have a conversation about SparkleBrady and BB's legacy without spygate being a big part of it. And if found guilty, deflategate will also have to play a big part in those discussions as well. Zero Superbowl's without cheating hardly puts you in the discussion for best ever. Although, the media seems to dismiss spygate like it didn't happen when it comes to discussing those two cheating fucks. It's like the Hall of Cost. We must keep the memories alive and always remember what happened.
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