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Nah, they would make it an all female cast. Like they are doing with the Ghostbusters and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Instead of giving us a good storyline, they are just changing the genders of the main characters. Yeah that will cause folks to flock to it. I find this trend insulting and in the case of League beyond stupid. It's right in the title: GENTLEMEN, that means men. hmmmph Just for the record, I am female and I don't need to see women shoehorned into roles just for my existence to be validated.

It won't be. Tebow is a camp arm. He still can't see the whole field. He didn't play that well against third stringers. You have to be amazing out there when you are 4th on the depth chart. Barkely is the 3rd QB if they keep 3 (and maybe the 2nd if they cut Sanchez and only keep 2) There is no way Chip Kelly keeps him for the season when they have so many other needs.

The new rent.com ad is kinda funny. The guy is asking a resident if she said the place was "stinky?" She says yeah I did. He says "well something does smell around here." She points out he is standing in what is presumably dog poop. "Told you it was stinky." He keeps going on about the smell and then says "What did this .. a shetland pony." Except he doesn't pronounce the first part of shetland very well and considering what he is standing in, makes it HILARIOUS.

Columbia -- the world's weirdest sprawling mall. I kid you not, I can never get from DSW to Jo-Ann's there without getting lost. Heck even going to Jo-ann's then leaving confuses me. Based on this conversation, people do not get lost nearly enough on tv. So my tv trope is that people always know where they are going. Kinda like they need to call someone and just dial the number. This was in the days before cell phones. They'd just pick up the phone and start dialing the school, their long lost cousin, co-worker, etc. People they did not call the time, but somehow magically knew the number.

One early morning in court, I was introducing myself and my client for the record. I couldn't remember left from right, my hand was just waving. The judge had to finish my sentence. And tease me about left from right. Topic: Men never stop to ask for directions on tv. Women are perpetually lost. But EVERYONE can find a parking spot right in front of where they need to be. Or their car service in NYC can pull right up to them at the curb.

They want Elliott who HAD TO BE REMOVED FROM THE CAPTAIN'S CHAIR because he was a danger to the crew over Jake? Why? Because he was nice and tried to make sure they had an easy time while making tons of money? Seriously????? Makes me wonder if Elliott was the supplier for the entire boat. Jake, you're the captain, when the boat gets back to Dutch fire everyone of their asses and find a crew that understands how a boat is supposed to be run?

Oh my, another hot guy joining the show. Who expected Neville Longbottom to grow up to be the hot one? My tv may melt from all the hotness.

I thought of that immediately when I heard the news Frank Gifford had passed. It reminded me that we got the news that Walter Payton had passed right before a Monday Night Game. The good ones time it well.

All 3 of the original Monday Night Football guys are gone. They never got the booth right again after those 3. Gifford was a helluva player too. He was in the 1956 championship game. The photogenic face of the Giants against the blue collar Johnny U.

Nothing done in the games will be as bad as Tim Brown's speech. Never has so little been said while taking so much time. It got to the point where he was saying "I just got to tell you a story about this" and I was yelling at the tv "No, no, you don't. Shut up." I have very few memories of his speech other than it rambled. I get it. It's their night in the spotlight and they should be able to speak as much as they want. But they really really really should take the time to work with a speechwriter so the time is not wasted. A memorable 5 minute speech is so much bettern than a 30 minute ramble down memory lane. And if a good speech takes 30 minutes, you won't notice it. This especially irked me because Sidney Seau was not allowed to speak from the podium about her dad in the interest of time. Ummm, SERIOUSLY????? If the Hall is so concerned about how long speeches are that dead enshrinees family members are not allowed to speak, change the eligibility rules. You can only be considered for enshrinement after you are dead. Booom. Ceremony takes 5 minutes. But if there are going to speeches --- everyone speaks. Period. It's just not fair to the memory of those who happen to die before they got in, that they get treated differently from other enshrinees in the interest of saving time while living enshrinees get to ramble all they want. Fran Tarkenton speaking on behalf of Mick TIngelhoff was so sad.

I'm female and I don't mind the cheerleaders. I don't a special "fan experience" complete with mansplaining just because I am a female fan. I like football. What more does the team need to do to keep me that interest that they don't do for the men? Treat us like fans, not an anomaly that needs to be catered to. You will be amazed at the results. (at least we are back to talking about the NFL's tone deafness about women again instead of Brady's soft balls).

Kraft accepted his punishment because he thought a display of contrition would end the whole thing. Goodell loves it when people say "yas suh, Mr. Commissioner, I dun sorry I screwed up. I am right sorry I made the NFL look bad." (language done deliberately). Then Goodell can look all benevolent and say "Well, if you're really sorry this time, I won't suspend you." That's what Kraft thought would happen with the Brady appeal. Except Goodell got burned badly about the Rice debacle and doesn't want to look like the stern, but loving father anymore. He wants to be The Hammer. On everything. Including soft balls that no one ever cared about before. There is absolute no reason for WHY balls must be the pressure given. There is no data on what happens to balls in cold weather games, even with all the teams still playing outdoors in the cold.

That would be awesome. I can see him doing the Garnier Nutriesse commercials. Or what was the one where all the women who used it had orgasms? Speaking of the Captains in commercials, I love Sig's Bank of America card. Before he went crabbing on the Bering sea ..... I just hope that blonde in the final shot is his wife.

Taking this over to the small talk thread.

The transcript was released. Profootballtalk.com has a seres of posts about it. Basically, if Brady hadn't played games with the text messages, he would have practically a slam dunk case (and I don't say that often) against the League for lying and mishandling this so badly.

"why did they throw it?" What everyone watching the game --including the Pats fans asked. I think I heard a fleeting "fuck" Monte Colburn, relief captain stayed behind on the Wizard. "He's a 49ers fan." bwahahahahahahaha. "There's insane and there's stupid, let's not be both." While getting into a tiny dinghy on the Bering Sea. Yeah break in the weather. What if the weather changed while they were on the Cornelia Marie? Speakng of the Cornelia Marie -- Josh can't afford to fish baridi because there's no money. But there is a spare 5K to blow on getting the Super Bowl beamed to the boat. Yeah, it's the SUPER BOWL. I may have thought "I could never crab, it's during football season" (and I'm female) but if I am running a business, I have to think of the cost here. Josh wanted to see it. It had nothing to do with "morale." He's never cared about the morale on the boat, just his screen time.

Whoa -- Lady Mary was SUSAN???? The lady with the poker? The one with the white streak in her hair? The absolute no-nonsense, I don't care if I am the daughter of the adopted daughter of an anthropomorphic incarnation? Epic does not being to cover it. Takes a very talented actress to carry that role off without coming off as cheesy or OTT.

It's okay you can't keep the husbands apart. The show is about the wives, so the husband's are not as developed (hint, Alan is the asshole who treats his wife like crap and she begs for more). Plus they all have the military crew cut which makes it hard for them to stand out as individuals.

Which is why people who own cats would totally get why the cat is never seen. "oh fluffy is off killing birds again." "princess all hides when you come over, she hates that you site in her favorite chair." Real cat behavior.

The sewage has been in the news for awhile. This is just the latest report. Hello, people, you kinda knew this when you awarded the Games to Rio. What did you THINK they were going to do about the water pollution? I live in the DC region. I do not want the Olympics or any big event here. Mostly because Metro can't function on a regular day without breaking down, injuring and/or killing someone. They cannot handle the regular commuters AND the Olympic crowds.

The law on collective bargaining says that the CBA trumps things like due process -- because the represented parties can freely and fairly bargain away their due process rights in the agreement. Now a CBA can't do anything illegal. And the Adrian Peterson verdict was because the League didn't follow their own procedures in the CBA. Courts have consisently upheld freely bargained CBA provisions for DECADES. They are not suddenly going to change because Tom Brady got suspended for 4 games. Remember we are not talking deprivation of life or liberty here. We are talking money. Even in a civil context due process is more relaxed. For instance, take the 5th Amended right. In criminal cases, your right to remain silent cannot legally be held against you. In a civil case, if you plead the 5th, a court can draw a negative inference from it. We are conflating many ideas here: criminal law, civil law, and collective bargaining law. All have different standards. You cannot cross pollinate them just to support your side. Which is what Brady is trying to do. He is part of the CBA that gave Goodell the power to investigate and hand out punishment. The CBA sets the standard of proof that Goodell must use. It most likely also sets out how much one must cooperate with an investigation. And asking for text messages relevant to an investigation is not that far out of line (remember last year when everyone got mad at Goodell for NOT requesting the Ray Rice video?). Brady cannot complain he didn't get due process under a criminal standard when that is not the relevant standard. He wants to use criminal law, not CBA agreements. The NFLPA doesn't like how Goodell hands out discpline? Well that they should not have agreed to it in the last collective bargaining agreement. No one forced them to agree to it. But they were all so busy on making sure there was more money available that they ignored the non-monetary side of things.

This is not a criminal matter. The due process he is entitled to is that outlined in the CBA, duly bargained for between the NFLPA and the NFL. Although not quite sure since I have not read the entire CBA, it is pretty standard to have clauses in there about cooperation with any investigation of violations of RULES. Rules not laws. Believe me, if your employer is investigating who posted the racist note in the break room (not a crime) and you don't cooperate, your employed CAN AND WILL suspend you. Not for posting the note. But for not cooperating. Brady did not cooperate. And now he is whining that not cooperating got him punished.

You cannot retrieve messages from the carrier. The carrier does not save them. The carrier only has a record of the number that you sent or received a text from. This comes up in litigation all the time. People delete important texts, or even you need them in a usable form in court. You go ask your carrier for them and find out they don't exist on some server somewhere. The phone destruction is new. It's different than all the other cases. Maybe Brady really didn't do anything wrong. But the spoliation of evidence rule rests on the legal belief that innocent people don't destroy the evidence that would prove their innocence. Take the Duke Lacrosse rape case. I believe it was a receipt that showed at least one of the boys was at an ATM at the same time the dancer claimed she was being raped. He had that receipt that showed the time and date on it. Proof that her story didn't make sense. That led to the unraveling of it (among other things). Now suppose he didn't have that receipt? What starts the unraveling then?

It's called spoliation of evidence. It's a basic rule of evidence that if someone destroys something that could be evidence it can be construed they had something to hide. Sure, Tom Brady always destroyed his phone. I believe that given how famous he AND his wife are. But, he destroyed it AFTER the investigation began and AFTER he had been asked for the texts. He couldn't secure it in a safety deposity box for a little while? He just HAD to get a new phone right then? Does he have to prove his innocence? Well, not prove his innocence, but the CBA says the players will cooperate with NFL investigations. The players gave the power to the Commissioner to investigate and hand out discipline. That means, yeah, Tom Brady had a duty to preserve evidence that he reasonably knew (remember he had already been asked for the texts) might be part of of the investigation. The Wells Report had a lot of flaws. Mostly, no one knows WHY footballs have to be in the specified range other than it's been in the rules going back to the 1940s. No one has ever bother to investigate the effect of weather on footballs before. If all the NFL had was the Wells Report, there should be no suspension. But then Brady destroys possible evidence. You don't destroy evidence that can exonerate you. So not only was there the inference he had something to hide, but he violated his duties under the CBA. He was wrong and he is being suspended for it. He loses a 1/4 of the season for a possible miniscule advantage. And maybe he didn't do it. But he looks bad for doing it and the Commish is within his power to draw a negative inference from it.

I've decided that when the folks start talking about using the tools as Experian, the sales guy will say "Oh you checked your score with Experian, great, in addition to your FICO score we also decide credit based on how much of an asshole you are, you now get that 38.99999% rate." Let's see how much credit swagger they have then.