Interesting. So to defend freedom, we strip people of ... freedom?

Schrödinger’s Rose?

The problem with your thesis is that one of the things the NFL dropped the ball on is its investigation of cheating to begin with.

Example: Let’s say I am a wood worker. I can go buy a plain hammer at the hardware store. But, I’m girly, and I see the pretty flowered one next to the regular one, I might go for that one instead (assume quality is equal). This doesn’t make me less capable of using a hammer. If the flowered hammer were unavailable, I…

I see this as similar to the backlash over science-themed toys aimed at girls - there’s always someone asking, “but why is the box pink?”

And your original post was incredibly assumptive and consescending.

Have you heard of this little thing called Title IX, which mandates equal access to both female and male athletics? Or did you go to bed in 1962 and wake up this morning?

What’s really interesting is that it’s neatly divided in half - down to the dollar - between management/general expenses and fundraising expenses.

The internet allows a narrative to mushroom in minutes. If you’re not going to be responsive to that, the court of public opinion will fillet you by the time you “get around to it”.

His point actually got worse if you heard the rest of the segment (http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/05/…). He went on to talk about baseball isn’t complex because Dominicans and country bumpkins can play it. But football, you have to be smart to play, because of playbooks and “coordinated plays”.

Well, you know that they say: the first step is always the hardest.

You know who else lobbied for that rule change, back in 2006? Peyton Manning.

I’m confused: how did a non-traveling employee (McNally) tamper with the balls used in a game in Indianapolis? The officials locker room attendant is employed by the home team.

Actually, wouldn’t the most damning piece of evidence be the footballs themselves?

Except, of course, for the experimental testing of footballs that indicated that the majority of the Pats’ game balls likely weren’t tampered with. But by all means, explain how the Pats got 8 out of 11 footballs repressurized so that they were within experimental parameters when they were measured at half-time.

Except that there is no clear evidence that there was a deliberate act. That’s the part you just keep ignoring.

Except that “probably” is not “absolutely”.

“Probably”? You “probably” would?

What the Wells Report did was to establish the presumption that Brady was likely guilty, and then selectively interpreted the evidence to back it up.

Just out of curiosity ...