Patriots : The Failure Of Football And The NFL

To persuade my audience that Tom Brady should suffer an indefinite suspension of 1 whole year from the National Football League.

The NFL has become the most popular sport in the United States. It is watched my millions every weekend. The NFL is only growing in popularity. With new fans joining the fun every day. The NFL has faced its share of problems too. With concussions scaring away many future players, the NFL is hoping to lower the possibility of concussions in the future. Each NFL team plays a total of 16 games over a span of 17 weeks. There are two conferences in the NFL, the AFC and the NFC. There are four divisions in each conference, each with 4 teams. The playoff teams are decided by the division rankings. The winner of each division makes the playoffs, with the two best 2nd place teams making it in as a wild card.

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots were accused of deflating footballs to give them an advantage in the January 18th AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. Deflated footballs are easier to grip and throw, giving their team a direct advantage over the Colts. The Indianapolis Colts equipment manager first suspected the balls did not meet the NFL’s minimum standard right before half time and after measuring the balls he notified officials. Most all of the balls the Patriots had were not measuring to the correct standard and they found that Tom Brady knew of the violation and said nothing. Punishment from the NFL was a one million fine, four game suspension without pay and the loss of not only their 1st round draft pick in 2016 but also their 4th round draft pick in 2017. In addition, the two equipment staffers responsible for the incident were also indefinitely suspended. (ESPN.com) However, Tom Brady recently won his court appeal overruling the 4 game suspension and will be a starting player in the upcoming

When it comes to sports, a competitive mindset is key. In American football, it’s hard not to win without communication and teamwork. In the NFL playoffs of 2015, the New England Patriots beat the Indianapolis Colts 45-7 for the AFC Championship. In a game that originally portrayed the Patriots as an offensive force to be reckoned with, ended out to be a game that goes down in history. After further investigation, the NFL found 11 of the Patriots' 12 footballs in the game to be underinflated by about 2 pounds below the NFL’s requirement. Now whether the allegations are determined to be true or not, it does raise some speculation about the truth of the AFC

The NFL: League of Denial, written by Mark and Steve Fainaru is one of the first books to publicly question the NFL’s concussion protocol. The book was originally produced as a documentary on PBS, which aired in 2010. The two authors, Mark and Steve Fainaru are ESPN reporters, and brothers. Steve Fainaru formerly worked as a war reporter in Iraq, while Mark Fainaru primarily focused on sports journalism. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Mark Fairnaru describes the book as documenting "pretty extensively two decades worth of denial by the league to basically bury the concussion issue as anything serious for the sport" (Chicago Tribune). The two authors became interested in the concussion crisis in the NFL after reading the research of Dr. Bennet Omalu. Dr. Bennet Omalu is a Nigerian, now American Medical Doctor, Forensic Pathologist, Professor, Medical Examiner, but most importantly, the discoverer of the connection between the brain disease, CTE and sports-related concussions. The book focuses on Dr. Omalu, and the case of former NFL player, Mike Webster, and his football related injuries, which later led to his death.

The New England Patriots are looking for top tier athletes to compete for the greatest reward in NFL Football, the Lombardi Trophy, against some of the best athletes on earth. You are required to have multiple years of football experience and at least two years of college football. You must be a great teammate, have a great work ethic, and also you must be dependable and great critical thinker. You get payed on your performance. The better year you have the greater chance of a better contract next

Contests in skill, strength and speed have occupied an important place in every culture throughout the ages. The meaning of the term sport and the effect that sport has on society is always changing. Sports have especially changed in the last two decades and can certainly be evidence by the growing number of labor disputes and court cases involving all sports.

The American Army surrounded the British soldiers at Breed’s Hill, an area overlooking Boston. Americans were ordered not to fire “Until you see the whites of their eyes”.

Finally, the NFL found that 11 of the 12 Patriot footballs were under-inflated. They were investigating whether the Patriots did this on purpose or it was just an accident. Either way there will be consequences. There are also many questions the players want to be answered. Pat McAfee, Colts kicker/punter, asked if they would be playing in the superbowl or not. Patriots cornerback, Brandon Browner, says that he could have carried a beach ball and they still would have won. The Colts were not happy about what the patriots did, and neither is the NFL. So they have been thinking about what they should do about it

I do believe that the New England Patriots deflated footballs in the American Football Conference championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. The game was held on January 18, 2015, at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts. The National Football League requires footballs to be inflated between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch of air (2016 NFL Rulebook). Before halftime the Colts’ linebacker, D’Qwell Jackson, intercepted a pass from the Patriots’ quarterback, Tom Brady. Later, Jackson said the football appeared spongy, which describes the texture of an underinflated ball (Deflategate Timeline). At halftime all twelve of the Patriots’ footballs were measured, and all twelve were below the minimum pressure (Deflategate). After the game when the National Football League launched an investigation, they hired Ted Wells to

Numerous former employees say the Patriots would have someone rummage through the visiting team hotel for playbooks or scouting reports. The whole league knows the Patriots are cheaters and they cover their tracks after they leave Boston. The deflategate was no accident; it was a purposeful act. The Patriots claim innocence in the incident. The Patriots are not victims because other teams claim Patriots have cheated against them, Former Patriot employees claim they were asked to cheat for the team, and Patriots claims about weather conditions are false.

Last July, a few weeks before the New England Patriots started training camp, I got a call from Donald Yee, the agent in Los Angeles who has represented Tom Brady since he entered the N.F.L. in 2000. It had been four years since I first told Yee that I was interested in writing about Brady, even though I typically cover politics. I grew up in the Boston suburbs, rooted for the Patriots as a kid and even possessed vague memories of watching the team play at Fenway Park, one of their homes before they settled into the nowhereland of Foxborough, Mass., in 1971. My friend Josh and I once wrote a letter to the team’s young quarterback, Jim Plunkett, inviting him to dinner at Josh’s house. (Plunkett never responded.) Their teams were mostly bad, their owner was an embarrassment, their stadium a dump. Yet the Patriots always retained a lovable haplessness about them, with their cute minuteman logos, their A.F.L. lineage and the identity crisis that comes from being named after an entire region instead of a city or state. (The Seattle Seahawks are not the Pacific Northwest Seahawks.)

I roll over in bed, still tired from my early morning/18:00 shift, thinking about the fiery girl and boy pair from Twelve.

American football is one of the most popular games played and followed in United States. Many believe it to be No. 1 sport in North America and take it as religion than sports. It is dream of majority of youngster to pursue their careers in American football, as it is source of wealth and glory. To attain a successful career one has to play this game before he is 14. He has to be part of High School League, College League, and eventually National Football League (NFL).

Tom Brady is a famous football player and in January 18 2015 he was reported that NFL is looking into the Patriots use of deflated football in the AFC championship game won over the Colts. Midway through the game, a ball was taken away off the field and out of circulation, a league spokesman to said NFL Media Insider Ian Rapport at the time. Per the NFL rulebook, game balls should be inflated with between 12.5-13.5 pounds of air. Each team have to provide 12 primary balls for test prior to the game. NFL VP of Officiating Dean Blanding said NFL Network that, "it's not unheard of for a ball to be unconcerned from circulation and then tested during the week for whatever issue shows up. NLF found that 11 footballs used by the patriots has less