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In reply to the discussion: NFL players union asks Roger Goodell to recuse himself from Tom Brady's appeal [View all]yellowcanine
(35,716 posts)7. Actually the wording was "more probable than not" and the NFL can sanction based on that.
Those are the league rules which Brady and the Patriots have agreed to. If they don't like it, try to change the rules, but meanwhile, they have to live by them.
Wells wrote that investigators also concluded it is more probable than not that Tom Brady was at least generally aware of the inappropriate activities of McNally and Jastremski involving the release of air from Patriots game balls.
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NFL players union asks Roger Goodell to recuse himself from Tom Brady's appeal [View all]
Omaha Steve
May 2015
OP
Not exactly the right person to make a ruling when he made the first one.
LiberalFighter
May 2015
#1
Were the balls underinflated? Yes. Did it affect the outcome of the SB? Probably not.
Thor_MN
May 2015
#2
Actually the wording was "more probable than not" and the NFL can sanction based on that.
yellowcanine
May 2015
#7
Goodell has presided over much of the NFL's growth since he came to be commissioner.
Calista241
May 2015
#9
Ray Rice didn't play last year. He doesn't have any prospects for playing this year.
Calista241
May 2015
#20
Kraft knows suing the 31 other NFL owners isn't going to make anything better for him,
hughee99
May 2015
#33