02-18-2008, 12:29 AM
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How ESPN/AP has begun to spin the globe story
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3251081
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In the Globe report, Belichick discussed the league's taping rules and bristled at references to "Spygate," saying what the Patriots taped was in plain sight to the public.
But Article 9 of the NFL Constitution & Bylaws states "any use by any club at any time, from the start to the finish of any game in which such club is a participant, of any communications or information-gathering equipment, other than Polaroid-type cameras or field telephones, shall be prohibited, including without limitation videotape machines, telephone tapping, or bugging devices, or any other form of electronic devices that might aid a team during the playing of a game."
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and the globe quote
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The rule states: ‘‘Any use by any club at any time, from the start to the finish of any game in which such club is a participant, of any communications or information-gathering equipment, other than Polaroid-type cameras or field telephones, shall be prohibited, including without limitation videotape machines, telephone tapping, or bugging devices, or any other form of electronic devices that might aid a team during the playing of a game.’ My interpretation was that you can’t utilize anything to assist you during that game. What our camera guys do is clearly not allowed to be used during the game and has never been used during that game that it was shot.
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AP/ESPN conviniently added a single word and ommitted BB's explanation of his interpretation.
and it doesnt end there..
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Belichick said he didn't address the Rams' walk-through issue sooner because he was trying to focus on the Patriots' games at hand.
"I wasn't comfortable talking about it earlier in the year because my No. 1 job is to win football games," he told the newspaper. "The more distractions there are, I think the harder it is to prepare. I thought the more conversation about this would just take away from what my primary job and our primary job is, which is to win football games.
"I felt like now, the season has been over for a couple weeks, there are certainly a lot of questions out there about it, I thought this would be the timely point to address it as opposed to during the season, at any point. Of course, it came up a number of times."
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whereas the actual quote in the globe was why he didnt respond to the spygate story earlier.
ESPN is just riding the Rams story .Pathetic case of journalism
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Those bastards... Who the hell runs them bc seriously this bias is UNBELIEVABLE
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