The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

In honor of the start of another season of our civilization's supreme achievement, two items on the busy intersection of football and the law:

1. A product of possibly the greatest BigLaw research project of all time, here is Greenberg Traurig's catalog of every notable incident of bad behavior by NFL players since the turn of the century. The document was created to support Greenberg client Adam "PacMan" Jones contention that the League was punishing him unduly harshly for his strip club shenanigans.

2. A new niche practice: buzz-killing internet nanny (free reg required)

UPDATE (9/13):

Well, now that punishment has been meted out in the "Belicheat" "scandal," I say it's time to move on and let the healing begin.

There is an interesting post on the matter by Professor Alfred Yen at the madisonian blog.

excerpt:

"There's a curious parallel between this argument and one about circumvention of DRM in copyright. Both the Patriots and some circumventers have a 'legal' objective. The Patriots want to decipher the opponent's defensive signals, and some circumventers want to make fair use of a copyrighted work. The only 'offense' is using technology to accomplish otherwise legal ends. So, if we think (as some do) that penalties for circumvention should be lenient or nonexistent when fair use is the purpose, shouldn't the Patriots and Belichick get off with less severe punishment?"

But taking into account the Pats' flouting of repeated warnings on this exact issue (akin to ignoring an injunction against circumvention), the Professor concludes, "the league has treated the Patriots and Belichick quite fairly."