Injustice Rules as Julian Edelman Won't Appeal His Suspension
Source – Julian Edelman is going to swallow the medicine and accept his four-game suspension without any further fight.
NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported Friday morning that the Patriots receiver won’t follow Tom Brady’s example and take the issue to the federal court system. Edelman is not going to sue the league over the PED suspension an arbitrator recently upheld, per a source informed of the decision. He’ll focus his energy on football and prepare for his Week 5 return, ready to compete for his job. …
Given previous court decisions, Edelman taking his case to federal court would have been a desperate Hail Mary.
Congratulations, NFL. You got your man. Way to go, Players Association. I hope getting buggered by Roger Goodell’s veiny, throbbing, industrial justice yet again feels good.
Is there a weaker, more ineffectual and timid group of any kind in the country than the NFLPA? They are totally cowed. They’re like submissives to Goodell’s cruel dom. He spanks them and pulls their hair and spits on them and tells them how worthless they are while laughing in their face and cackling hysterically as he ignores them screaming the safety word. And they just keep coming back for more abuse.
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To review: Julian Edelman is suspended for four games for testing positive for … something. The league’s Piss Squad doesn’t know what was in his system. They can’t identify it. It could be a PED or a narcotic or a medichlorian count even higher than Master Yoda’s …
(Quick interjection here: Every once in a while I revisit Phantom Menace and somehow Jake Lloyd’s acting just seems to get worse with each viewing. The kid couldn’t act scared if his hair was on fire. A teacher wouldn’t have given him more than one line in the school play. How did George Lucas let him get through the audition process for the biggest franchise reboot in movie history? It boggles the mind.)
It doesn’t matter. The Emperor can execute Article 46 any time he wants, suspend a guy for as many games as he wants for whatever reason he wants, and the gimps in the NFLPA just keep putting on the zipper mask and asking for more.
Bear in mind that while they’re letting one of their members lose 1/4 of his salary over a mystery substance in a tainted sample that was mishandled by the testers, the union is fighting the league tooth-and-nail over the right of other members to dump on the National Anthem. That’s where they draw the line. A gesture. A symbolic protest. That not only doesn’t put money in any of their rank-and-file’s pockets, it alienates most of football’s core audience, drives them away and plays right into Donald Trump’s hands. That’s what they’re willing to actually fight for. And roll over when one of their own gets punished and humiliated over nothing.
So again, congrats. Jameis Winston, who has a terrible history with women, grabs an Uber driver by her lady parts and gets three games. Because he was willing to bend the knee before the almighty, infallible leader. Julian Edelman gets four games for nothing. And the courts will back Goodell’s power to run the league under Fuhrerprincip like they did in the Brady case.
Well fuck ‘em. Like with Brady, Minitron will rest up for September. Take four fewer games worth of shots. Come back in Week 5 to a team that will probably be 3-1 and tear up the league once more. And probably spend some of time with his child and babymama, who hit the beach yesterday:
We FIRST showed you last week Julian Edelman’s baby mother Ella Rose doing the most on the beach in Santa Monica, well she was back at it yesterday.Checkout the nice clean images below, hopefully this was for a bikini shoot and she has a good excuse…but i’m thinking attention is more like it.
So in spite of the gross injustice at play here, the joke’s on everyone else. But just remember that if Julian Edelman isn’t free, than no one is truly free.