If I wanted to run for my life while having things thrown at me, I’d sit in the visitors section at WVU again.

I bet attendance at these Color Event runs would plummet if cell phones were prohibited. Seems like the only reason people go to these things is so they can take selfies to upload to Facebook and Twitter, or use on their OKCupid profile.

They’re huge money grabs and really dumb. My sister wanted to do the Electric Run a few years back and I obliged because she couldn’t find anyone else to run. $45 later I get a tshirt and three glowsticks and run around a course on Raleigh’s fairgrounds which includes varying degrees of music and lights. Sometimes…

Great post! Now do one about how to avoid your friends who plaster their social media feeds with this shit.

“With this magic schedule, I can squeeze it in between kickball and cornhole!”

So I saw this stuff on a Toyota commercial and thought just how stupid do you have to be on a run, gasping for air, and then let people throw paint dust at you? 10 years from now you’re like a coal miner with black lung, except yours are colorful.

Isn't the bigger issue that the league has made a mountain out of a molehill. I don't care about Wells' nonsense. I don't care about the Pats nonsense. I care about how a open and shut case that should have been a $50-100k fine, maybe the loss of a mid-round draft pick, has made my favorite sport look so idiotic.

As others have said the sanctions were, by precedent, excessive. Had they been reasonable, Kraft would accepted them, Brady would probably have appealed and missed a game. The Pats have handled this badly but, not for the first time, Goodell has made this into a nightmare for the league.

You know they won’t. Deadspion caters to the masses and the masses hate the Pats.

There hasn;’t been a single big of evidence that Brady did anything agains the rules. Wanting the balls on the lower end of the PSI while still within legal limits is not a crime. And the Wells report exonorated the team and Belichick yet the Ginger Jackass still docked draft pciks, proving this report was a waste of…

Call me batshit but i’ll keep defending them. This entire time there has not been a single shred of evidence that brady or anyone else ordered the balls be deflated below legal threshhold or that it was done after the inspection. Deflating a ball is not against hte rules, since they come from Wilson at 13 psi and…

This thing came from the Patriots, not Tom Brady.

well what’s really annoying is how Kraft has had Roger’s back his entire tenure, but the moment he has to punish the Pats for cheating. He’s all power mad. Goodall didn’t even come close to bringing the hammer down. Somehow Belicheck didn’t get suspended even though Sean Peyton did. This was about as middle of the…

So what does it say? I am asking you a question. Don’t tell me what it says in the report, tell me what the report says. Otherwise you are hiding behind a report instead of discussing it.

Also, Tom, I would like it if Deadspin looked at the full rebuttal and wrote about that as well. The Deflator nickname bit is asinine, of course, but I hope you guys don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater and ignore the rest of it.

Seriously thought. They believed everything Walt said execpt which gague he used. They did not explain why, that is just what they did.

I’m just saying, that’s what the Pats said. They say they gave the name of the “he” to the league.

In the report, they say they gave the name of the guy they claim they were referring to to the league, who never looked into it. <shrug>

Yeah, the Pats shouldn’t have focused on that because it sounds ludicrous. There was enough meat on the bone regarding the NFL’s extremely sloppy handling of well, everything to avoid trying to explain that nickname away.