I used to refer to NM at Copley Place in Boston as Needless Markup at Costly Space.

A woman in her late-forties-to-early-fifties that looks like Paula Dean walks up in a turquoise jumpsuit and says in a cartoonish southern accent, “Do y’all have any Tupperwares?”

Those hands look mighty pinchy. Am I to understand that Conscious Uncoupling involves purple nurple? If so, i’ll stick to a plain old fashioned breakup, thank you very much.

whoa whoa whoa, you obviously have not seen his Gilette commercials. Brody brings it..every.time. also, does all of his own shaving, so there.

You might ask Drew Bledsoe if he thinks missing a couple of games and having an inexpensive mid round pick replace you behind center might cause irreparable harm to a career.

Watched it live (if I’m a fan when they win, I’m a fan when they suck) and there was an angle that showed in the pen. It’s the only way they would have known the ball came out. That is until Dan Shaunnessey’s multi-part expose in the Globe.

Torii Hunter: Where’s your God now, Boston?

Agreed times a billion. Have you seen this!?

Actually, that’s not necessarily the case. Any grounds on which the NFLPA would likely bring suit probably make Brady’s phone and the texts basically irrelevant to the case. The issues litigated will be Goodell’s actions in the context of what he can or can’t do under the CBA.

I actually think they have a very strong argument here — just not the one that the amateur labor litgators in the press are discussing. I think the NFLPA gets aggressive and goes beyond the impartiality/bad process/law of the shop arguments and gets into an argument that Goodell is railroading Brady; i.e. there are no…

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Exactly. I sure as shit wouldn’t want anyone reading the texts between my girlfriend or brother or my fucking parents for that matter. The League's promise to review only those messages pertinent to the investigation is both impossible and absurd. Combine that with the fact that there is a 100% chance that large…

Federal court has a history of siding with players on technicalities. The Saints’ bounty suspensions were overturned based on the NFLPA’s argument that the bounties were “undisclosed compensation” that Goodell didn’t have disciplinary authority over.

So you think the NFL should suspended any player who does not turn over his phone to the NFL because they ask for it. Would you turn over your phone to your employer (personal phone) if they asked for it because they thought you did something wrong?

I don’t understand how people don’t understand that you don’t need the cellphone to get the text/call records. It’s completely unnecessary to have the physical device.

This isn’t a court, the NFL can’t issue warrants, they have absolutely no right to search his personal property. I say this as Jets fan who loves that the decision was upheld. Goodell is a moron and his handling of this incident, like every other thing he has done recently, has been appalling.

It was his personal cell phone. I don’t quite understand why everyone thinks that he should be forced to give that up to the NFL investigators.

Those rule modifications are only to help Tom Brady. The NFL front office gnashes its teeth that they inadvertently also helped Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, and Drew Brees. Opening up the passing game and making it more explosive has league executives weeping into their pillows every night, knowing they’ve doomed…

i love that book. of all the books i read as a teenager, i think it most prepared me for what to expect in the real world