{"id":6346,"date":"2015-05-15T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-05-15T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:23:28","slug":"why_goodell_will_hear_the_brady_appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/05\/15\/why_goodell_will_hear_the_brady_appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Goodell Will Hear the Brady Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: So Roger Goodell is gonna hear the appeal of Tom Brady, despite the fact that Brady and his lawyers asked for anybody but Goodell. Goodell said, “Nope, it\u2019s gonna be me.” There\u2019s all kinds of analysis swirling around about what that means. I\u2019m gonna tell you what it means. It means the suspension\u2019s gonna go down to two games, exactly like I told you when this first thing hit. The original suspension four games and appeal, it will be reduced to two. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSHL I got an ESPN alert <\/a>that said that Tom Brady\u2019s popularity rating, the E rating, whatever it is, is at its lowest ever. It\u2019s at 53% since this all started. I don\u2019t know what it was at the starting point. The alert called it the E rating. It\u2019s the same thing as the Q rating or factor that they subject TV personalities to. It\u2019s not just name recognition, but popularity. <\/p>\n

I have huge name recognition but, you know, 30% of the country hates my guts \u2019cause they\u2019re liberals. So everybody knows who I am, but my popularity rating is only around 70 because the libs hate me. Brady\u2019s is down to 53% in this. It was just an alert, and I haven\u2019t had a chance to get back there and look at the whole story. But it does remind me that I do have to give you my analysis and theory on Goodell deciding to hear the appeal himself. And this is kind of an in-your-face move because the Patriots asked for somebody totally independent. <\/line><\/p>\n

The problem for them is that the collective bargaining agreement, the deal that the league has with the players association, the players association agreed to have the commissioner be an arbitrator in disputes. So Goodell is not asserting anything that he\u2019s not been granted authority to do. It\u2019s just that the Patriots came along, “Hey, you know what, can we get somebody totally independent here? Could you just all recuse yourselves from this?” And Goodell said, “Nope. I\u2019m going to handle the appeal.” And the sports Drive-Bys are all over the place trying to figure out what that means. And you can imagine the varying opinions on that. <\/p>\n

There are some who believe, well, no, Goodell did not hand down the original suspension. No, no. He authorized it, but the original suspension, as we\u2019re led to believe here, came from a relatively new vice president league, Troy Vincent, who\u2019s a former defensive back for the Eagles. It was Troy Vincent that came down with the four games and the million-dollar fine and the two draft choices. Now, Goodell had to authorize it, but it was not his original decision, so goes the story. Well, the aftermath has occurred, Goodell has seen it, he\u2019s aware of everything being said. <\/p>\n

The sports Drive-Bys, by the way, and I\u2019m kind of surprised at this, and the Patriots had their 20,000-word reaction to Ted Wells\u2019 30-minute TV press conference, and the Drive-Bys are mocking it. The Drive-Bys are laughing, particularly at the idea that the guy that called himself the Deflator did that because he was losing weight. The Sports Drive-Bys are not buying it. “Come on, you nobody losing weight calls themselves the Deflator.” They think it\u2019s really a bad, bad defensive effort. It\u2019s not good, which means it probably is pretty good, if the sports Drive-Bys are criticizing.<\/line><\/p>\n

But one theory goes that Goodell decided to do this to make sure that the hammer is kept down, to make sure that some independent arbiter doesn\u2019t lift the suspension or doesn\u2019t weaken it. My theory is that Goodell is taking over the arbitration or the appeal process precisely to cool this down and is gonna make this four games two games. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen to the fine or the draft choices or any of that. <\/p>\n

But my guess is that Goodell is gonna take the opportunity here to try to put some things back together rather than continue to throw the hammer down, because if I\u2019m wrong, and I could well be, if Goodell upholds this and it\u2019s four games, there\u2019s no doubt the Patriots are gonna go to court. There\u2019s no doubt the Patriots and Brady will go to court, and you\u2019re gonna have a team and an owner who used to be extremely close to Goodell now at odds in the courtroom? <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t imagine anybody — (interruption) that the suspension is unjust, it\u2019s unqualified, that it\u2019s wrong, that it\u2019s factually wrong, that the investigation conducted by Wells was full of holes and no dead-certain evidence and no facts in it. There are any number of ways they could go after it. I mean, you can sue anybody for anything, Snerdley. If the judge doesn\u2019t throw it out, you go get a chance to make your case. (interruption) What do you mean, on what grounds? Who do you think doesn\u2019t have grounds here? (interruption) No, they can sue anybody. If they don\u2019t like what they get, they can go to court. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re making rumblings that this is gonna happen if they don\u2019t get what they want. I mean, Brady is lawyering up for people to do their work in court in penalty phase hearings or appeals or arbitration — this is not arbitration. It\u2019s appeals process. But no, there are people that think this is headed for civil lawsuit territory. And I can\u2019t imagine anybody involved in this wants that. I mean, we\u2019re not talking about something like what George Stephanopoulos did here. But time will tell. <\/p>\n

I will happily posit the possibility I\u2019m wrong. Goodell could well be thinking that the last thing he wants to happen is for the league to appear to cave under the pressure of this withering response from the Patriots, that he will want to continue to do what he has done, and that is put his stamp as the enforcer and the final authority and the commissioner and the power broker on everything and make sure that this penalty is maintained, four games, million dollars. So it could go either way. I\u2019m gonna follow my instincts, which are, when it was first announced, four games, I said, there\u2019s gonna be an appeal and it will be reduced to two. And I thought the same thing when I heard that Goodell was gonna do the appeal. So we\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, found that ESPN story that I got notified about on my watch. “For the first time in his career, a poll indicates there are almost as many people who say they dislike Tom Brady as people who say they are fans of the New England Patriots quarterback. E-Poll Market Research released findings Friday on a poll conducted this week that asked more than 1,000 people representative of the US population what they thought about Brady.<\/p>\n

“The company\u2019s E-Score celebrity index shows that 47% of those surveyed now say they don\u2019t like Brady. An E-Poll survey taken in February… showed 32% of the respondents didn\u2019t like” Brady. It\u2019s gone from 32% to 47%. So it\u2019s a 15% increase in the number of people say they do not like Brady. “Ten years ago, the number of people … who said they liked Brady hovered around 90%.” Today it\u2019s around 48%. There are some people that have no opinion. There are some people who don\u2019t know who he is. <\/p>\n

“By June 2008, the offseason after Spygate, Brady\u2019s positive appeal fell to a then-career low of 77%. Brady hit another career low with a 68% likeability rating in an E-Poll survey taken Feb. 20, 2015,” and it\u2019s down from that now. So he\u2019s plummeting because of this. And it matters. Now, here\u2019s the way it matters, because you could be a smart aleck. “Rush, you said the E-rating, fine, the Q-rating. Is that gonna make fewer people watch football?” No. No, this is gonna increase TV ratings. <\/p>\n

Can you imagine the pregame shows now on proper inflation of footballs? You\u2019re gonna get so sick of this by the time preseason comes around. (sigh) Just another thing the media will focus on. No, this is only gonna enhance interest and intrigue. But if he wants to run for office someday, it\u2019s something that he\u2019ll have to deal with. This stuff matters to people who want to do that, and I guess this stuff matters to people that want to be product spokesmen. But it isn\u2019t gonna matter in terms of television audience for football games.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: But first Joel, Asheville, North Carolina, welcome, sir, great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, thank you, God bless you and your family.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. Same to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. My point is about Tom Brady.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tom Brady.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. The reason the media\u2019s going after Tom Brady is because he is not a liberal. During the George W. Bush administration, President Bush was giving the State of the Union address, and I saw Mrs. Bush seated up in the balcony, right next to her was Tom Brady. Now, that told me everything I needed to know about his political views. He\u2019s a conservative. I saw Tom Brady, not Keith Olbermann. And the thing is, if this happened to the Oakland Raiders, you would have never heard a word about it. But because it\u2019s the New England Patriots, I don\u2019t know what Mr. Kraft\u2019s politics are, but he may be a conservative, too. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re going after his team. But I believe it\u2019s because Brady is a conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You really do? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir, I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think Brady\u2019s being targeted here for political identification reasons?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Certainly. If he was a liberal, if he was for all these liberal lunatic ideas —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait, wait, wait. How do you know he\u2019s not? Just because he sat next to Ms. Bush, okay, so she invites him and he politely accepts, but —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, remember, I\u2019m sure you remember, Mr. Limbaugh, Tom Brady did not go to the White House with the team —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to see Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I remember that. I remember the speculation. There were people —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That I believe is another proof. I mean, you know, a lot of little strings make a rope. And put together all these things, I believe Tom Brady, and because he\u2019s rich, he\u2019s the richest player in football —<\/p>\n

\"original\"RUSH: Now, I think that there are a lot of people happy at Tom Brady\u2019s misery because they\u2019re jealous of him. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about that.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about that whatsoever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I don\u2019t know that the Drive-Bys are targeting Brady. I mean, he\u2019s got his defenders in the media, too. I mean, they\u2019re not all anti-Brady, although, frankly, the thing that surprised me about this is the players. I guess it shouldn\u2019t surprise me. I haven\u2019t yet seen a player — I\u2019ve seen one, I\u2019ve seen the punter for the New York Giants, guy named Steve Weatherford thinks it\u2019s too much. Most of the players I\u2019ve seen interviewed think that four games isn\u2019t enough. Like Keyshawn Johnson thought it should have been six games. A lot of players think it should have been half the season or whole season. <\/p>\n

So clearly a lot of emotions are being raised out there because of this. I\u2019ve heard some people speculate that there\u2019s a political component to this, but while I guess it\u2019s possible, I don\u2019t think we have enough information to conclude that that is a factor here. I mean, look, the original complaint about this was not the Baltimore Colts. The original complaint about this came from the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Ravens first alerted the Colts to it in October of last year, long before the championship game. The idea of Brady playing with underinflated balls goes all the way back, I mean, years, like 2006, 2007. It goes way, way back, this stuff has surfaced in all of this. <\/p>\n

But you could have a point. I don\u2019t know what Tom Brady\u2019s politics are. I haven\u2019t the slightest idea. I wouldn\u2019t even know to make a guess. Yes, I would, I would know how to make a guess, but I don\u2019t know what point of it would serve. We\u2019ll just take your call under advisement, see if other people agree. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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