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Group of idiots on internet donate money to much richer person
Posted by Darin Gantt on May 12, 2015
Listen, we get it, people like football. And the liking of football is good for business, and pays a lot of mortgages.
But some of you people really need to take a peek in a mirror.
Some fan, aggrieved by the league’s fining the Patriots $1 million for their “more probable than not” role in deflating footballs, has decided to pass the hat.
A GoFundMe.com site has been set up,
soliciting donations to help offset the league-imposed fine.
“We obviously know we won’t reach One Million Dollars, however we do believe the fine is bulls**t and want to help anyway we can,” the site reads. “So whatever is donated will be donated to the New England Patriots in help with the fine!”
Yeah, poor Robert Kraft, worth
$4.3 billion (with a B) can use all the help he can get.
At the moment, 365 fans/suckers/trolls have made donations worth $5,430, ranging from $500 to $5. And to be honest, as a capitalist, part of me says “fine, have at it, whizz away your own money however you please.”
At the same time, there has to be a homeless dog somewhere in the cities where these people live, or something more worthy than making a quixotic — and very, very stupid — statement on behalf of a billionaire who believes he’s been wronged.
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Patriots fans stage sit-in at NFL headquarters
Posted by Josh Alper on May 12, 2015
Patriots fans are taking a page from Cosmo Kramer’s battle against Big Bagel’s
refusal to recognize Festivus and taking their grievances to the street.
Four Patriots
fans associated with Barstool Sports have parked themselves in the lobby of the NFL’s Park Avenue headquarters in New York to express their displeasure with the penalties handed down to quarterback
Tom Brady and the Patriots on Tuesday. The four protestors, all of whom are wearing Brady jerseys, first paraded in front of the building with signs before moving inside the building to stage a sit-it while handcuffed together.
It remains to be seen if they also plan to move onto tampering with the steam pipes, but the New York Police Department may not give them the chance. Twitter user Lisa Kraus Edwards has been documenting the protest with pictures on Twitter, including the one on this page, and reports that police
are on the scene to put
an end to the scene at the behest of NFL security.
It seems doubtful that this protest sparks further uprisings, but if we’re wrong “No Brady, No Peace” may become the catchphrase of the summer.
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Awww, one for each game. Adorable.
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At least seated on the ground they’re safe from falling off the barstools referenced in their name. Something makes me suspect there’d be a very real danger of that happening.
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These are your people, Boston. Revel in the stupid…