The "News" is that people have started to see this entire process for the farce/onesided railroading that it really is.
Agreed. I'm not a Patriots fan at all which changes perspective..but honestly, I stopped caring about DeflateGate long ago. Yes, the punishment was a bit ridiculous but what's even more ridiculous is that this thing won't fucking go away. By this point, whatever happens happens. Let's not feed into this drama bullshit the NFL wants us to care about and just deal with it. This is evidence that Goodell should be fired but we shouldn't think much about it now. It's been months.. This is the NFL. Not a soap opera.
The first part of your sentence is the reason for the second part of your sentence.
Its not high priority, but if you talk to any casual, random NFL fans (you know, the late 20s/30s assholes who just follow what they think they should instead of forming their own opinions), you will see that pretty much all of them are "happy beyond belief" about deflategate. Honestly, I can't talk to about half of the NFL fanbase because they are worse than some hero.
Not necessarily.. All the Pats fans that are still too pissed off at Goodell(not all Pats fans mind you) to care about anything else and all the NFL reporters who want us to care by this point is why it won't go away. Not the fact that Goodell was overkill in the initial punishment(which he was but who really still cares?).
There are also plenty of Patriots bandwagoners going the opposite way who are equally as bad. Are you actually expecting any noticeable percentage of a fanbase as large as the NFL's to be reasonably intelligent?
Believe me, same here. And while there are the patriots bandwagoners, its safe to say that most fans pretty much hate the patriots, only moreso now.
this may have been more accurate about 10 years ago after they won all the other Super Bowls, but the hatred is probably not nearly as widespread as you think. I'm willing to wager the Seahawks are probably higher on a lot of people's hate lists than the Patriots are these days.
Not only has Tom Brady been the Patriots best player for 14 years, no player in NFL history has ever meant more to one franchise. Now this player is being unfairly railroaded and you expect them to just let it go?
You don't seem to understand that the fact that the punishment was overkill, the player he punished, and the crime/evidence he punished for is the reason this story won't die.
I wouldn't say that
You don't understand that nobody else really cares anymore(save for some Pats fans). I know how important Tom Brady has been to the Patriots. Hell, he's one of the most important players in the NFL in the past 15 or so years. Doesn't mean that we should fan the story. We get it. The whole NFL fanbase hates Goodell, not just you. The story needs to die. It's useless drama that nobody likes. We need to let it go and get on with the season, not focus so much on one punishment. One that might not even matter if Jimmy lives up to potential.
Let me throw a crappy analogy your way to help you understand
I don't let it cloud my judgement. I'm just tired of all the bullshit this caused. Is it bad that I just wanna get on with the season and I stopped giving a shit? I hate Goodell with a passion but I'm so tired of hearing about DeflateGate that I'm just gonna let it go. Seriously, this whole situation is annoying af. Yes, Goodell went overboard on punishment here. That is true and I never denied that. It's just not worth talking about anymore. If Brady's suspension is upheld, it sucks for Pats fans but I myself stopped caring. If Brady's suspension is reduced/gone, then it's a win for the organization but I myself stopped caring. I'm just here to watch football. Not to follow a stupid story for months.
No its fine if you want it to go away, its the dumbest story in sports history.
Perhaps not. But let me make a hypothetical scenario here.
Ben Roethlisberger was a rapist in the eyes of the public the moment he was accused, regardless of how the investigation actually played out. He was not even indicted, yet to this day lots of people insist he did it. I didn't waste my time arguing with people about it because the masses are ignorant and only believe what the media wants them to. I said it earlier on this page, a fanbase the sheer size of the NFL's is doomed to be loaded with half-wits because that's what happens when you dip into the "general population". This is why you should not concern yourself with their opinions, and worrying even the slightest bit about the fact that the majority of them may hate you is silly. I think if you were to somehow gain the opinions of only the intelligent fans, you'd find a much smaller percentage of them hate the Patriots.
The difference in the 2 situations is that people already hated Brady more than any other QB in the league BEFORE deflategate even took place.
I don't care about their opinions when it comes to the Patriots. But I DO care about their opinions when it effects the judgement of the idiotic NFL commissioner who always gauges public opinion before making decisions.
Its still the most important NFL story right now, as it directly effects the season of the leagues defending champ. You can't just ignore it.
