NFL bad boy Tom Brady has again been rewarded for bad behavior. Instead of being forced to drink lemon water without sweetener, he has been given a pitcher of “mint julep” to wash down the “taste of cheating” that was in his mouth after the “deflate-gate” football altering cheating scandal that followed Brady and the New England Patriots after the 2014 NFL post season.
According to an article written by Mike Reiss ESPN New England Patriots sports reporter, “Brady and the New England Patriots have agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2019 season, NFL sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Dianna Russini. With 36 touchdowns and seven interceptions in 2015, Tom Brady set the mark for best TD-INT ratio among quarterbacks who are at least 38 years old.
Brady had two years left on his contract, paying him $9 million in 2016 and $10 million in 2017.” Instead of taking accepting the original four game suspension that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell levied against him, he along with along with the remainder of the Patriots brass all of whom I have dubbed; “Pathological Liars Anonymous” have chosen to appeal and fight the punishment by perpetuating the allegedly, stone cold bold-faced lie that Brady perpetrated that no one above or below him had any indirect or direct knowledge of footballs being “doctored” in order to give him a competitive edge.
Wouldn’t you have liked to have been a fly on the wall at the initial “Pathological Liars Anonymous” meeting attended by Tom and Bill? Can’t you just imagine the testimonial? “Hi, we’re Tom and Bill and we are addicted to lying. It has taken us years just to realize that we have an addiction. It’s not easy standing here before all of you strangers completely baring our souls.
I caution all of you “young liars” out there don’t just ever tell one lie. You may think that it is easy to quit but you can’t tell just one lie because one lie always leads to another and another and that’s where and when the addiction begins. Soon, one lie is not nearly enough. Shortly thereafter, you start lying you begin to believe and accept the lies as if they were the God spoken truth. But you can never turn back. The lies are almost like drugs, once you tell one lie and get away with it, it begins to feel good.
From “Spy-gate to Deflate-gate” the behavior was so empowering it was almost impossible to stop.” Well the poor New England Patriot locker room laborers smack dab in the middle of the controversy did not get a good job approval ranking or an employment extension because they allegedly met the “unemployment guillotine” shortly thereafter.
According to a profootballtalk.nbcsports.com article posted by Darin Gantt on May 11, 2015, Mr. Gantt pointed out that; “We have probably seen the last of the Deflator on the Patriots sidelines. As part of the league’s announcement of the punishment of the team and Tom Brady for #DeflateGate, the Patriots admitted that “employees John Jastremski and James McNally have been indefinitely suspended without pay by the club, effective on May 6th.”Jastremski was an assistant equipment man with the team, and a full-time employee, while McNally was a game-day attendant for the officials’ locker room, and the self-described “Deflator.”
Tom Brady was not suspended without pay but the people who could least afford to lose their jobs were suspended and possibly fired just because they marched lock step to “General Tom’s” orders to remove air from the footballs have lost theirs.
To this day the accused laborers from the Patriots locker room have been loyal and quiet as church mice. However, the New England Patriots have confirmed what a few of us have suspected about the shadowy NFL franchise for well over a decade, as was pointed out in the movie The Green Mile; “What happens in New England stays in New England, always has, always will.”
(The sources for this article were espn.com and profootballtalk.nbcsports.com)
Aubrey Bruce can be reached at: abruce@newpittsburghcourier.com or 412.583.6741
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