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Patriots fans are more delusional than you think

BOSTON — A group of New England Patriots fans have sued the NFL in an effort to recover the first-round draft pick taken from the team as punishment for the “Deflategate” scandal.

The seven fans include a season ticket holder from Connecticut who said the scandal has left his 7-year-old daughter disillusioned and a Florida man who said the NFL’s sanctions have caused him stress and lost sleep.

The complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston says the NFL made an “arbitrary and capricious” decision to revoke the pick in this month’s draft even though there is no proof the team deliberately deflated footballs in the Jan. 18, 2015, AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.

The complaint alleges, among other things, common law fraud, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and racketeering.

The NFL, Commissioner Roger Goodell and team owner Robert Kraft are named as defendants.

Roger Goodell and Robert Kraft at Super Bowl XLVI.Photo: AP

The Patriots and league declined to comment Wednesday.

The complaint says the league and Goodell relied on “false premises and biased ‘investigations'” in handing down punishment, which also included a $1 million fine and a four-game suspension for quarterback Tom Brady. Brady’s suspension remains under appeal.

The suit criticizes Kraft for not fighting the league’s punishments harder.

“Defendant Robert Kraft had remedies to attempt to get plaintiffs’ draft pick back, but he chose his fellow billionaire owners above the plaintiffs and fellow fans,” the suit said.

Sports law experts tell the Boston Herald the suit is a Hail Mary because fans don’t have standing in the matter.

“Paying for a ticket to watch the Patriots play isn’t interfered with by the team losing a draft pick or two,” said Michael McCann, a sports law professor at the University of New Hampshire Law School.

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1 minute ago, PatsFanTX said:

How many Super Bowl titles have Jets fans celebrated over the last 15 years.

'Nuff said.

Great point, it's a well known fact of you root for a team that wins Super Bowls it is scientifically impossible for you to be a douchbag.

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11 minutes ago, PatsFanTX said:

How many Super Bowl titles have Jets fans celebrated over the last 15 years.

'Nuff said.

How many titles have you won that are tainted by cheating?  (hint: all of them).

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How many titles have you won that are tainted by cheating?  (hint: all of them).

Wake me up when the NFL strips the Pats of all those Super Bowl titles.

Only people who think those titles are in question are whiny, jealous non-Patriots fans.

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3 minutes ago, PatsFanTX said:

Wake me up when the NFL strips the Pats of all those Super Bowl titles.

Only people who think those titles are in question are whiny, jealous non-Patriots fans.

It's sad how far you've fallen since the old '04/'05 JI days. You've completely lost yourself and become a raging embodiment of the abrasive and insecure patriot fan stereotype. 

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Standing is the most glaring problem but it's not the only problem. 

There is no privity of contract between the NFL and a ticketholder. To the extent a ticketholder or PSL holder has a contractual relationship with the team it is limited in scope and surely does not obligate the team to produce a team of a certain performance or entitle the consumer to involvement in the decisions of the team. So all those contractual claims are dead.

The NFL owes no legal duty to ticketholders to conduct business among the owners fairly. So no negligence claims there. No team owes a legal duty to its fans to fight disciplinary actions. So those negligence-based claims go nowhere. 

That nonsense about the arbitrary and capricious decision is silly. The NFL spent a million dollars to determine whether some balls were deflated. One can disagree with the results but there's little room for an argument that the decision was arbitrary or capricious. 

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40 minutes ago, Beerfish said:

Bring it on, the more this goes through the courts the better it is.  Increased chance of the parties in it must swear under oath in testimony or via affidavit and thus bring out the whole sordid affair

A pot calling a kettle black: http://espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5201702

Just for the record, Brady did testify under oath.  Lets see Goodell testify were he cannot hide behind the shield.

 

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26 minutes ago, PatsFanTX said:

Wake me up when the NFL strips the Pats of all those Super Bowl titles.

Only people who think those titles are in question are whiny, jealous non-Patriots fans.

Fans of real championship teams are not defined by severe insecurity.  Never ever. 

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35 minutes ago, PatsFanTX said:

Wake me up when the NFL strips the Pats of all those Super Bowl titles.

Only people who think those titles are in question are whiny, jealous non-Patriots fans.

Or everyone who isn't a paranoid Pats fan.

its every football fan.  There is a reason the Pats are the most hated championship team ever. 

Only part of it is their douchy fan base

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20 minutes ago, PatsFanTX said:

Doesn't matter.

Pats will still have the AFCE all wrapped up by Thanksgiving, just like they always do.

Right, and then they'll lose to the Jets in December and claim it doesn't mean anything, even though it takes away home field advantage for them, which allowed Peyton to yet again beat Brady in the playoffs for the third time in a row, and go on to solidify his legacy as the greatest non-cheating QB of this era.

How much does it hurt you that the Jets were the reason that the pats* didn't win their first legit super bowl?

 

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2 minutes ago, greenwichjetfan said:

Right, and then they'll lose to the Jets in December and claim it doesn't mean anything, even though it takes away home field advantage for them, which allowed Peyton to yet again beat Brady in the playoffs for the third time in a row, and go on to solidify his legacy as the greatest non-cheating QB of this era.

How much does it hurt you that the Jets were the reason that the pats* didn't win their first legit super bowl?

 

Carolina would have rolled over the Pasts*

And the bitches up north would whining about that too.

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Right, and then they'll lose to the Jets in December and claim it doesn't mean anything, even though it takes away home field advantage for them, which allowed Peyton to yet again beat Brady in the playoffs for the third time in a row, and go on to solidify his legacy as the greatest non-cheating QB of this era.

How much does it hurt you that the Jets were the reason that the pats* didn't win their first legit super bowl?

 

A meaningless game against the Jets?

The Jets 2nd win against the a Pats in their last 10 games?

An OT win against the Pats 3rd stringers?

Go make up some more delusional pipe dreams on how you think UConn has a better basketball program than UNC.

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10 minutes ago, greenwichjetfan said:

Those poor victims...the whole world is out to get them. 

My favorite part of the thing is that they're claiming hardship in explaining this to their kids.

The same people who dismiss the impact of integrity and sportsmanship on children are claiming that a fictional witch hunt is a bigger issue for kids.

The children of Boston are going to grow up having no concept of personal accountability. Maybe each them that instead of frivolous lawsuits.

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