Na_polian

It COULD be that, or, maybe it's just that Easterbrook is a douche.

denverpatsfan

He can't let it go. Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. It sells.

What he is saying is that since the NFL won't come out and say explicitly that there was no evidence of "cheating" in the Super Bowls due to the taped signals, there must have been cheating, or they wouldn't have destroyed the tapes so soon.

I am done with GE.

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patsox23

Total B.S. speculation. Silly. Generating hits and revenue. It's horsecrap and continues to show a fundamental lack of understand in terms of what was GAINED and what was implimented. It's totally retarded, but don't let that get in the way of a good, if entirely fictional, story.

danny88

MAYBEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rob0729

Exactly. People discussed his column all over the country and half the people didn't know who he was and probably can't remember his name now. He is going to milk this gravy train for as long as he can.

FloridaPatsFan

Thanks Na Polian....I agree now more than ever. I think Easterbrook is losing sleep over the patriots. Would not surprise me if he even writes a book about it.

DGameguy

To be honest, I'm not all that surprised by this from Easterbrook. Modern day Nazis often look to conspiracy theories to hold up their twisted points-of-view. Maybe it's because of Kraft. Easterbrook has made anti-semitic comments in the past, maybe this is now his opening to attack. I should say that I never have really been a fan of his articles.

The whole Aiello's lack of a reply is nothing. Aiello already answered his question. Im sure he didn't mean that there was NOW no evidence that it was destroyed.

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danny88

Haha this clown will be penning aritcles about this when no one gives a ****. What waste of life.

robertweathers

I think you are pretty close on this.

Goodell came to the realization that the Pats and every other team in the NFL has bootlegs on bootlegs of non NFL-sanctioned game film in their vaults. It could have shot from from sideline cameras, the stands, to press-boxes, etc.

So Goodell asks the Pats for their entire library of bootleg tapes to make the competition committe happy. The Pats ask if the commish will go after the other teams and request that their bootleg tapes be confiscated. The NFL says we have no reason to suspect the other teams. The Pats ask what reason do you have to believe we have more. NFL says people told us. Pats say we tell you that the Jets and every other team has tape on us and you are compromising this season's comeptitive landscape by making us turn over all our tapes and not anyone elses. NFL says fine, we'll bury it and send out a memo to the other 31 teams. I'm sure there was some give and take over the phone on this, but my gut tells me how it went down. If they got more than 2more tapes from the Jets game i'd be shocked.


IMO, this thing could have become a witch hunt and exposed alot of unsavory aspects of the game that the fans dont want to know.

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BostonBullit

"If a big American institution such as the NFL is not being honest with the public about a subject as minor, in the scheme of things, as the Super Bowl, how can we expect American government and business to be honest with the public about what really matters?"

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH....seriously, I think he thinks he's on his way to a pulitzer or something with this story....years from now students in Journalism II are going to be studying him and mentioning him in the same breath as Woodward and Bernstein....what a tool