Per the linked article, in recent years, Brady appears to have begun accepting payments from the Best Buddies charity as donations to his own charitable trust, which has an arguably less charitable mission.
The article notes that there's nothing illegal about this, nor is all that uncommon or one charity to donate money to another. Just that it's curious how a guy with Brady's wealth would lean on another charity to fund his own.
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This. You want to know how the Pats never seem to be in salary cap hell with a franchise QB? This is how.
Ding ding ding. This is exactly why Brady is ok with getting paid $13 million in a season. The Pats make sure he gets paid elsewhere and they don't take massive cap hits for their QB.
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is even shadier.
This. You want to know how the Pats never seem to be in salary cap hell with a franchise QB? This is how.
So, tell us about it. No secrets among friends.
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is even shadier.
Ding ding ding. This is exactly why Brady is ok with getting paid $13 million in a season. The Pats make sure he gets paid elsewhere and they don't take massive cap hits for their QB.
Is it illegal? Is it against league rules? If so, why has nothing been done about it? If not, what is your problem with The Patriots being smarter than the rest of the league?
I smell a great deal of jealousy here.
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In comment 13438916 SHO'NUFF said:
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is even shadier.
Ding ding ding. This is exactly why Brady is ok with getting paid $13 million in a season. The Pats make sure he gets paid elsewhere and they don't take massive cap hits for their QB.
Is it illegal? Is it against league rules? If so, why has nothing been done about it? If not, what is your problem with The Patriots being smarter than the rest of the league?
I smell a great deal of jealousy here.
...and I smell Belichick's genitals on your breath.
It is absolutely unethical that they are circumventing the salary cap, and they absolutely deserve criticism.
The Pats aren't "smarter" for doing this, I'm sure other teams are smart enough to funnel money to their stars, it doesn't take a fucking rocket scientist. I would imagine that other teams simply don't want to partake in unethical practices that will likely lead to a scandal down the road.
The Pats are slimy, even if the little Bill brigade doesn't want to admit it.
Ask yourself this - why would the NFL launch investigation after investigation into the Pats, the preeminent NFL franchise, for seemingly trivial or minor infractions? Why does goodell get his panties in a wad every time a patriot farts the wrong way? Don't tell me it's just for the sake of flexing muscle or no fun league crap? I think goodell and the NFL powers know something that we don't know and while they don't want to go scorched earth and torpedo the patriots good ship lollipop I think they want to punish them any way they can.
The pats are up to no good. I have little doubt.
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In comment 13439008 SimpleMan said:
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In comment 13438916 SHO'NUFF said:
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is even shadier.
Ding ding ding. This is exactly why Brady is ok with getting paid $13 million in a season. The Pats make sure he gets paid elsewhere and they don't take massive cap hits for their QB.
Is it illegal? Is it against league rules? If so, why has nothing been done about it? If not, what is your problem with The Patriots being smarter than the rest of the league?
I smell a great deal of jealousy here.
...and I smell Belichick's genitals on your breath.
It is absolutely unethical that they are circumventing the salary cap, and they absolutely deserve criticism.
The Pats aren't "smarter" for doing this, I'm sure other teams are smart enough to funnel money to their stars, it doesn't take a fucking rocket scientist. I would imagine that other teams simply don't want to partake in unethical practices that will likely lead to a scandal down the road.
The Pats are slimy, even if the little Bill brigade doesn't want to admit it.
Piss Off L.G. and take your foul mouth with you.
The line above, "I smell Belichick's balls on your breath" should be immediately enshrined in the BBI Hall of Fame.
You have to download their tax forms to $500k payments to another charity. It doesn't explain what its for or that it goes directly to a "charity" controlled by Brady. And then he gives a big chunk of he money to his high school and kids private school.
Is he asking people to donate to Best Buddires charity to help disabled kids and the donors don't know about this arrangement? Isn't that shady?
And I would call 3.25 million out of the 20 million raised a significant chunk. He asking people to donate 50,000 for some VIP plan? Yeah great and he's getting an $8k-9k commission on i every $50k raised since 2011.
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In comment 13438916 SHO'NUFF said:
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is even shadier.
Ding ding ding. This is exactly why Brady is ok with getting paid $13 million in a season. The Pats make sure he gets paid elsewhere and they don't take massive cap hits for their QB.
Is it illegal? Is it against league rules? If so, why has nothing been done about it? If not, what is your problem with The Patriots being smarter than the rest of the league?
I smell a great deal of jealousy here.
No jealousy. I don't really hate them for doing it. Its like many things Belichick - he finds a way to gain an advantage. I think its just because they win a lot and have done some "cheating" that it does raise an eyebrow. No other teams have a top 1-2 QB every year on the books for such a low price.
And just for the record I'm not implicating Brady Don't enough about this charity to make a judgment one way or another. But there are so many other examples (most of which we can't discuss without violating Eric's rules). Maybe Tom fell into the logic of "everybody's doing it, so why can't I"
And just for the record I'm not implicating Brady Don't enough about this charity to make a judgment one way or another. But there are so many other examples (most of which we can't discuss without violating Eric's rules). Maybe Tom fell into the logic of "everybody's doing it, so why can't I"
Not close to laundering income from a charity so yes it is different but it's still shady to raise money for disabled kids and then take a huge chunk of it to spread around as you choose. Money that donors thought was going to disabled kids went to his high schiool? To his kids private school? For some kind of program for his nutrition company? Thats bull shit.
Kraft, on the other hand, has been shady his whole life.
Slime.