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Real Name: Michael Brockman
ESPN Username: same as TKP
Email: ftn_paperclip at yahoo( dot com)
Scoring preference: No Preference
Draft blackout dates: None
No 2015 TKP team
No other preferences

yeah, it's not like the players were like "oh gee this sounds like a swell idea!"

players have cars, houses, families, etc to pay for and they aren't getting paid until a cba gets signed, which means they were going to have to accept some things they really didn't want and hope for the best. i find it unlikely that the players supported the setup, they were willing to live with it

If you had gone to any other business and requested something and gotten it three years later you would not be happy!
That being said it sounds like it was a free item

Other than the typical "don't bother going" and "ATM", what will be the best/most effective methods of extracting fundage from this fine establishment?

Learn to play blackjack for next time. Those are generally your best odds because you have some control over the outcome.

Real Name: John Bryant
TKP Username: JhnBrynt
ESPN Username: JhnBrynt
Email: johnpbryant@gmail.com
Scoring Preference: PPR
Draft Blackout Dates: N/A
Team Name from 2015: The jhnbrynt

As you can tell, I get real creative with my usernames

I didn't forget. I said "like a 49%." I didn't take the time the do the math. I just think roulette is an easy game to not go through all your money in the first hour. Blackjack is definitely your best odds of winning though.

Also, if they have Let it Ride Poker I would recommend learning to play it before you go. It's a fun game. Everyone is playing the dealer instead of each other.

There's no way to beat the house regularly. That's why the casinos are still in business. With that being said I like to sit at the roulette table and always go with the trend (red or black). You have like a 49% chance of winning. You'd be hard pressed to find any better odds in the place.

Edit: my favorite is probably the dog races, just a $2 minimum bet and fun to watch.

he's been 6'5 since he got here. people were talking about him moving to DE pretty early due to his size.

Very few people are likely to move when they have kids in high school as long as they like where they live. The Williams's just got settled here and now have kids going into high school, he's not likely to move his teenage daughter to a new city to make new friends.

Just weighing in as both a New England resident, and as a Patriots fan.
There is absolutely no denying that the Patriots are guilty of foul play in the handling of the their game balls. The matter of Tom Brady's guilt however, is open up to a whole different interpretation. So to is the administrative handling of the investigation, and the resulting abuse of power by Roger Goodell; mostly resulting from outside pressures in the form of the other 30 owners. This is why Tom Brady is both fighting for his legacy, and for the unprecedentedly harsh ruling from Goodell.
Brady's implication in the deflating of the balls is questionable at best. The investigation into Brady began with Belichik's tongue-in-cheek Mona Lisa Vito press conference after the Indy game, where he passed the buck onto his star quarterback. From there on the once immaculate Brady became a media scapegoat for the crime, prompting a quick investigation from the NFL (who was itching for action after Spy-Gate). After a sloppy inquisition and accruing text messages from guilty ball boy Jastremski, the NFL could only ascertain that TB12 had told his assistant that he like the balls a certain way. This is NOT in anyway a violation of any kind, and quarterbacks such as Aaron Rodgers do this every game. It is the officials job to check the balls and fix them, and Jastremski broke the rules thereafter in a secluded bathroom. Who told Jastremski to do it? It's most likely that Belichick or Jastremski's manager told him to get the air to where Tom likes by any means necessary. Or maybe he did it to make Tom happy. Whether you believe he's innocent or guilty of knowledge, the reaction of the NFL is the most egregious act of DeflateGate.
Roger Goodell, with the Ray Rice controversy already afoot, was quick to condemn and devastate the long suspect Patriots organization. He needed to be strong, and show the owners that the second time the Pats crossed him would be the last. He nailed NE with a massive fine and snatched their coveted first round draft pick. While this punishment was harsh, it was not necessarily unjust due to past transgressions by the Patriots and the hated Bill Belichick. Turning to Brady, who was believed to be the major player in DeflateGate, Goodell slapped him with a 4 game suspension. Goodell had smashed precedent, and flexed his muscles as both judge and executioner under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Precedent with the deflating of balls was a $25k fine for equipment violation, but Goodell thought that was too lenient in a time where his authority was crippled by his fickleness in the Ray Rice scandal. He correlated Brady's "awareness" of DeflateGate to a PED violation, which has a precedent of four games most recently set by Antonio Gates and Bruce Irvin. Whatever you believe about TB12's association in DeflateGate, it is unquestionable that Goodell was both unjust his ruling of violation, and used it to deliver a much more high profile suspension to Brady, who had been notably uncooperative with the investigation.
While Tom's quest to the Supreme Court seems laughable at best and won't change public opinion, it has evolved into a fight for his legacy and for changes in the CBA for the Player's Union. Tom has united with them as he sees the 4-games both unfair to him in principle, and crippling to his image. The NFLPA is using Tom's high profile case to loosen Roger Goodell's irrational grip on his unchecked control on player discipline.

I personally want to see Tom cleared of this case, but in reality it WILL NOT HAPPEN. The NFLPA relinquished the power to Roger Goodell, and based on principle alone, the Supreme Court (if they even hear the case) will not rule against the NFL.

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