<p>Yep. I’ve heard 5 separate reports from so-called trusted news sources that he’s being arrested, etc. and nothing has happened. I wish the media would decide that getting it right is more important than getting it first. There should be a penalty system for reporting wrong things.</p>
<p>I thought the Pats hired Tebow to try to balance out the thugs (ie Dinard) they’ve hired recently. But if this Hernandez thing goes bad, it will take more than Tebow to balance it out. Myra Kraft must be rolling over in her grave.</p>
<p>Myra was already rolling in her grave when Bob took up with his young hottie just months after her death. yuck.</p>
<p>Agree the press leaks are ridiculous (and erroneous more often than not). The neighbors must be sick of dodging TV vans. “Two women picked up mail from the mailbox at 1:38 pm today – woo, breaking news!”</p>
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<p>Well, did we not learn from the last big media days in Boston (arrest of bombers) that releasing incorrect information is not uncommon. Just another day at the office.</p>
<p>It’s been a horror show of innuendo and “breaking news” nonsense of the kind that makes popular imagery of local news people as idiots seem true. </p>
<p>It’s weird that sports radio has been better than other sources. For example, after reports came out about Hernandez being “named” in a police report in Providence, one station obtained the report and read it on air. He was hassled by some drunk Jets fans and then followed as he walked away. The police stopped the guys from following Hernandez and one of them tried to slip an unregistered gun into the bushes. There may also be another police report but that “naming” consisted of him walking away from drunk idiots.</p>
<p>My expectation is even if he’s not charged, he’ll be suspended by the NFL.</p>
<p>Doesn’t he have to be suspended for a reason? At this point, do we know whether there is a reason?</p>
<p>My guess is that Hernandez is going to dearly wish that all of the reports were as trumped up as his “naming” in the Rhode Island incident.</p>
<p>Other reports are indicating that somehow the recording hard drive from his home security system was damaged/destroyed, and that his cell phone was also destroyed. If these reports are accurate, I’d say he’s in deep trouble…although he may not be alone there.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-aaron-hernandez-patriots-arrest-0622-20130621,0,1802482.story[/url]”>http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-aaron-hernandez-patriots-arrest-0622-20130621,0,1802482.story</a></p>
<p>He has a good law firm, but I’m not sure of their criminal law expertise. Maybe he was directed there by Kraft?</p>
<p>And there are reports of a cleaning crew at his house.</p>
<p>The NFL doesn’t need much to suspend a player. They suspended Ben Rapelisberger after his string of drunken sexual assaults though no charges were brought - and in Georgia, the police apparently helped him out by watching the door for him - and I think only one lawsuit was filed.</p>
<p>This thread lets me combine my thoughts about Boston sports media/fans from the Stanley Cup thread. I keep reading about this mythical Patriot ideal in which the team would only take people of character, etc. That was a media creation designed to bolster the idea that this Boston team is of course the best, not merely a terrific team but better even at the moral level. The only time the Patriots actually did something like this was when Myra Kraft I believe intervened about a late round pick - or free agent - who had a history of sexual assault. </p>
<p>So now the papers are full of the Patriots bashers saying the Patriots have gone astray, which means taking the idea of prior moral superiority as real. </p>
<p>I think the best description of the Patriots methods, other than trying to get undervalued players that might do better in their system (like all teams), is that Bill has job security and thus can afford to take flyers on people like Haynesworth and Chad Johnson (no longer Ochocinco) and some others. Those guys didn’t work out, though Chad wasn’t a personality issue. They dumped Big Albert because he was a problem. But Corey Dillon was fantastic here. </p>
<p>That’s why Bill can take a guy like Aquib Talib. He has talent. Has issues. Give him a second chance and see. If it doesn’t work, Bill doesn’t lose his job and they dump Talib.</p>
<p>Other coaches don’t have the job security to risk this kind of move. And the Patriots do avoid the guys who are clear messes, like Titus Young. He seems to have legitimate mental problems - didn’t even realize he’d been cut by the Rams after being dumped by the Lions (for refusing to play). They didn’t move on Pacman Jones because he had way too many problems. </p>
<p>But Boston media and many fans can’t handle the idea that maybe the Patriots are just a really good football team and aren’t winning because they’re morally superior exemplars. I think it’s terrible that a guy like Antonio Cromartie has something like 9 kids with 9 women but Patriots tight end Ben Coates, who was loved here for many years, had about the same record - as did Dave Meggett. Coates even got into an altercation with one woman who had his child because he wasn’t paying support. </p>
<p>This is why I don’t think for a moment they brought in Tebow because he’s a locker room guy. He works out a lot. But a backup has no leadership position. They brought him in because Josh drafted him and had him in Denver and thinks there’s something there as a football player. Bill can do this because he’s Bill and Josh can do this because Bill trusts him. If it doesn’t work, Tebow will be out the door. It’s a flyer on a player.</p>
<p>As for Hernandez, I’m somewhat amazed by the media articles here. It’s typical reasoning backwards: this happened so you must have been wrong way back when. But Hernandez was signed to a new contract, meaning he performed well on the team … or they wouldn’t have paid him again. And the hidden idea in these columns really bothers me: that people don’t deserve a second chance. Or rather that people deserve a second chance but we’ll blame you when it doesn’t work. The nature of second chances is that some work and some don’t.</p>
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<p>Better watch it, Lergnom, because someone from the Geography Police might show up to remind you that the Patriots are NOT a Boston team, and that you should not confuse Boston with Foxborough (or Foxboro) or confuse Boston with New England. :)</p>
<p>Sergeant Razorsharp here from the Geography Police. I must remind everyone that the Patriots are not a Boston team, they are a New England team.</p>
<p>And the team was recently relocated from Foxboro to Foxborough.</p>
<p>Now back to our regular programming.</p>
<p>Actually, I think they’re now located in a mall called Patriot Place which has become its own little world. Come to the Patriots Hall of Fame. See Bass Pro Shops. Blah blah blah. </p>
<p>When you hear about the possibility of bringing a Super Bowl to NE, remember that Foxborough is miles away from any mass of hotels, restaurants or bars. It’s a real hike from the city. In terms of time not distance, it’s closer to Providence because you need so much time to get into Boston (while 95 takes you into downtown Providence without much traffic). The main way from downtown there is the always backed-up, often completely stopped Southeast Expressway, known to commuters by how far the backup extends from the Braintree split - where traffic splits off to the shore and down toward the Cape - towards and past the giant gas tank. That’s a long way. Putting a Super Bowl down there would be a giant mess.</p>
<p>The Meadowlands isn’t much better, and they’re having a Super Bowl there.</p>
<p>Au contraire–the Meadowlands Super Bowl will be the best ever! Snow and cold and everything! Can’t wait!!!</p>
<p>The New Jersey Giants and Jets will put on a splendid experience!!! :)</p>
<p>And a new skinnier Governor to emcee the party. Who knows he might get his newfound bro to provide the entertainment. Doesn’t he do a mean Al Green?</p>
<p>The Detroit Super Bowl coincided with an absolutely frigid period. (Detroit couldn’t qualify now because the NFL has a giant requirement for hotel rooms in the area.) They set up a street of bars in closed store fronts in Pontiac, so you had bunches of roaming drunks in the cold. The game was great but the big problem was the Vice President’s motorcade completely bleeped up traffic to the game for a long time.</p>
<p>Meadowlands is basically in sight of Manhattan. The NJ equivalent to Foxborough would be like having the game in Paterson.</p>
<p>One big difference between the Meadowlands and Gillette is that the Meadowlands are surrounded by 2 or 3 major highways. A full parking lot there can be emptied relatively quickly. Gillette sits on one 4 lane divided highway, Rte 1. After a game it can take 2 hours to empty the parking lots (it used to be even longer until they built a flyover to Rte 1 South). </p>
<p>On the plus side for Boston/New England, all four of our professional sports teams play in privately owned and privately financed stadiums. TD Garden, Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium were not built or renovated with taxpayer money. The state did kick in infrastructure (ie road) improvements when Gillette Stadium was re-built, and the Red Sox don’t pay much rent for the use of Lansdown St, which is closed off and treated like part of Fenway Park for a few hours before each home game. But the taxpayers didn’t finance the stadiums themselves, and the teams all still manage to be profitable and pretty successful.</p>
<p>Lergnom, I appreciate your insight:
I was originally thinking it was a locker room/PR thing, but knowing the Pats and Bill, I think you’re right. Tom Brady is an effective leader and owns that locker room. And Bill never does anything purely for PR - he’s interested in winning, period. Josh McDaniel would know better than anyone how Tebow fit into the Denver system and how he could/would fit into the Pats system.</p>
<p>Those highways won’t help if there is a major snowfall.</p>
<p>It would be really cool to have a “Snow Bowl”-type game as the Super Bowl, but if you are one of the 30,000 fans that can’t make it to the game, you are not happy. Especially at $1000/ticket.</p>
<p>Not sure why who owns the stadium makes a difference.</p>
<p>Hernandez was released by the Pats. Maybe Hernandez will be playing for the prison club?</p>
<p>Regrettable.</p>
<p>Oddly, in this thread, it makes me wonder whether acquiring Tebow had the additional feature of possible getting someone who could help ride herd on Hernandez. Speculation, but I think they were teammates at UF, and maybe the Patriots were concerned about Hernandez anyway. If so, falls into the category of too late.</p>