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  1. "Gamesmanship" derives from "gaming" - i.e., minor corner cuts that amount to minor cheating, more or less. So yes, I regard it as gamesmanship, not dissimilar to Jerry Rice's illegal use of stickum, Clay Bucholz using a foreign substance on his arm, etc. The number of the balls is irrelevant: if the tool you're using to "game" is on your body, then you can do it to every ball. If it's the ball itself you're using to "game," than you have to logically apply it to more than one. It's impossible to do that in MLB because they go through so many balls, so the "gaming" device is always in the possession of the player (foreign substance on body or bat that one owns).

     

    So if I take your example and apply it to cycling for instance it would be "Gamemanship" if they added a powersource in their bicycle frames that would power the bikes or at least help out with the load?

  2. I guess this is why his legacy will be tarnished, regardless.

     

    How much of his success can we attribute to cheating? It's hard to say, exactly. But cheating or not, the way he executes his position tells me cheating has less to do with it than many want to believe. He's a great QB, regardless. And I think he deserves to be a first ballot HOFer.

     

    But as I said, the election process is nothing if not political, so it wouldn't surprise me if he isn't, either.

     

    GO BILLS!!!

     

    Unless he knows what to execute at what time knowing which formation the defense is going to use to counter it, ow wait, they already got punished for that offence.

     

    Between all 4 Superbowls they got caught cheating 2 times, that lifts the whole thing to the founded suspicion of them having a cheating culture instead of these instances being slips. In any sports at the level of which the NFL is conducted small percentage advantages lead to big results since the competition is so close to each other. The whole illegal formation thing was certainly a very gray thing as well.

  3. so then why not make it available for forensic analysis?

     

    There are companies specialized in data destruction, using devices such as harddisk shredders after they've wiped the devices by zero-ing out the data multiple times. Even the NSA won't be able to recover that.

     

    My assumption is that Brady his assistant submitted the phone in question to such a company as they are saying the phone is destroyed. They are not saying it is simply broken.

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    After reading the column, and then the comments section, I have to wonder: if Brady and all his wins were as a Bills QB, would Bills fans be screaming about a witch hunt and how the NFL was just trying to go after our team and QB? Especially if the team accepted its lost picks and paid its fines?

     

    I'd like to think most of us would be rational enough to accept that our QB and team cheated.

     

    But I'm probably wrong about that.

    I was thinking about that too, my best guess is we'd be 50-50.

  5. Oh, this is great:

     

    Albert Breer ‏@AlbertBreer 1m1 minute ago

    Brady communicated to the commissioner that he routinely destroys his phone for security reasons.

     

    10,000+ messages over a 4 month timespan; translates to nearly 100 messages a day. That seems a bit much doesn't it. I can't help but feel that Brady was covering up something else entirely. Were they relaying plays through text messages, or something similar? Was he getting playbook info from other sources delivered via text or something?

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    So we shouldn't give money to the family that lost the child?

     

    Yes, you should, if you can spare it and want too. The point is that someone was trying to put a downer on a successful campaign that may have saved a life but at the very least saved a marriage. The world is always going to be a place where if you help in one place you didn't help in another place of need. You can't feel guilty about that if you helped out since you a least helped out.

     

    Feel proud for giving something back to someone who gave you loads of memories and emotions, help out others if you can.

  7. I'll never understand why weed is illegal.

    It's a friggin' plant. Alcohol is far more damaging. 100 years ago cocaine and heroin were sold in drugstores and completely legal. Funny related fact; The Netherlands where weed for both medical and recreational use is legal has one of the lowest usage figures in the world amongst it's inhabitants.

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    Bad news for #Bama OT Cyrus Kouandjio. I’m told several teams have failed him on his physical. Arthritic knee from failed surgery. “Ugly.”

    Facing this new reality, the 49ers turned the typical meeting, which on some teams can go for as long as two hours, into 30-minute blocks, each followed by 10-minute breaks that allow players to do what young people do. That is, as Tomsula puts it, to “go grab your phone, do your multitasking and get your fix” before returning the meeting.

     

    Random semi related link/content dump?

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    Yup. There was a reason to make such a show of the "record" and 60K cap. I have no problem with it.

     

    Like Yolo said, it's time for the stadium to be filled with Bills fans like it was in the 90s. I'm a little ashamed to admit I assisted some Pats** fans with getting tickets the last two years. A friend of my parents -- who is a super nice guy and spent some time working in Buffalo during his career -- is also a Pats** ST holder and he asked if I would get group tickets for him. He's not your typical chowderhead dick (and has been so good to my parents) and I couldn't refuse. He paid me in sauce from Chef's.

     

    Anyway, this year I couldn't even get him tickets -- and I had to smile.

     

    Can we ban eball please? :bag:

  10. The more I think about it the more I realize that will be releasing some quality players this year... On the one hand that's big compliment to Whaley for building the roster on the other hand there'll be some guys that we'll be looking at on other teams and think why did we release him again?

  11. We'd better hope one of them will be able to emerge victorious during the RC/pre-season battle. We need one if them to seperate in a positive way. It shouldn't matter who it ends up being as long as he's been able to proof to both teammates and staff alike that he's the absolute #1 guy for the job. If neither can then stick with meh and pray it will be sufficient for a deep playoff run.

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    And where on the ball would you put a chip, each tip? I don't think the logistics make this a good idea at all. They ought to empower the referees to make a call and everyone live with it, but part of the ref's role ois to opt when they want to see a replay because they are unsure.

     

    That said, I do think they should have a camera looking down the goal line from both directions....

     

     

    Both tips and one in the centre, provides 3 measurement points for exact precision.

     

     

    At least you will know how far the ball travelled or if it broke the plane of the goalline. That would be an improvement over what we have now.

    Exactly, they could expand on it with a video/computer-ref that gives the true location to the refs on the field, but the basic should be this.

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