The NFL boot-lickers have come out in force in favor of Ted Wells' claim that Tom Brady did not properly cooperate in his investigation of low-pressure footballs used by the Patriots in the first half of the AFC title game.
The issue was Brady's unwillingness to turn over a personal cell phone and e-mails from a private account to Wells. The boot-lickers have joined the cry that Wells and the NFL have a full right to engage in such invasions of personal property in investigating the conduct of club employees and players.
Pro Football Talk and the rest of the house organs for the NFL figure that Brady and his advisers should have taken Wells' assurance that all he was interested in were texts and e-mails concerning the footballs.
"If he doesn't have anything to hide, why would he not turn over the texts and e-mails?'' has been the din from the house organs and much of the anti-Patriots public.
Real simple: Privacy.
That's why you don't use a cell phone issued by an employer. That's why you pay $100 a month – or in Brady's case, presumably much more for security – for your own cell phone.
Other than a request from police in a criminal matter, or a subpoena, it's no one's gol-darn business what is on a private cell phone or e-mail account. Wells and the NFL don't have subpoena power, so Brady was fully righteous in telling those parties to take a hike.
It is preposterous the NFL now can make the fascist-like leap that Brady can receive extra punishment for not providing Wells with private texts or e-mails. Roger Goodell isn't god, even if Pro Football Talk and the rest of the slobbering lap dogs think that's so in cases like this.
