Burfict facing suspension

[grampahol]

(08-29-2017, 09:05 PM)Joelist Wrote: You're missing the point behind the exercise. It isn't to protect Burflict but rather to serve notice that the bias will not be tolerated any longer. Send the message that the bias stops or you go nuclear and don't care about the consequences and the other owners will back down and reign in at least the worst of the bias. 

Bias won't be tolerated? Since when did the NFL care about bias ,perceived or not? 
Look, they want the big market teams, the teams with huge fan bases to win.
There's just too much money involved when say Pittsburgh or NE or Green Bay with their huge fan bases win as opposed to teams like Cincinnati or Kansas City. If suddenly teams with smaller fan bases suddenly are the headliners the revenue goes way down and whether anyone likes it or not it's still about the money. Competition is secondary. You can't take competition to the bank, but you can take revenue to the bank and that's the bottom line. The only way that's going to win out is if the Bengals organization and other teams like ours are willing to expose the whole farce and risk even more backlash from the league big wigs and then we may end up with players like AJ and Andy getting suspended for even pettier issues. I don't put anything past the league when it comes to protecting their coveted revenue streams. 
I truly believe that when players such as Tom Brady get suspended it's a mere deflectionary tactic so they can claim there is no bias. How many times do we have to hear guys like Kraft come out and tell us that regardless of how they feel personally about the issues they will still back up league decisions even when their own stars get suspended. They know that they're going to win because it's cooked into the unwritten rules the public is never going to be told about. 
Something you will NEVER read on NFL.com is the league has colluded to keep certain teams in the win columns year after year after year, but they will tell us so and so was suspended for [insert flimsy excuse here] and said player has to take one for the team, the team here being the league.   
Yup, when it comes to the matter of billions of dollars I am definitely one to believe in conspiracy theories because nothing makes a conspiracy theory more believable than a few billion bucks. You can have all the greatest morality in the world until someone comes along to wave a few billion dollars in your face. Then it goes right on out the window and means very little if anything.