Patriotic Fervor

What?!?!? You're comparing the taping of a football game to adultery???

How positively Gothic!!!!

Get a grip, man!

__________________
....and that's the way I see it!

Pedrorocks458

I don't feel it did...so why do I care? If you do then that's your prerogative. I wouldn't let ESPN influence that opinion.

JeriCurlPats

I'm not here to sway anyone or sound like OMFG! I will continue to pull for the team I've pulled for since I was 8 years old. I however, will never have respect for BB and what he's done to this organization and it's players. I wish the Pats had never even hired him. I am just genuinely very angry. And having to see these tapes is awful.

Gunnails

==================================

They don't look edited to me, if they are they did a ****ty job of it.

cmasspatsfan

ESPN is a complete joke, they're stating speculation as fact and talking out their ass.

Metaphors

The most surprising thing to me is how outraged they are when they see the sideline shots spliced in with the end zone view (like the coaches tape they get every week). This edit would obviously happen post-game and couldn't possibly happen at halftime. That would seem to prove Belichick's point that this was information processed for post-game analysis and not used in game. They are totally ignoring this and still plowing along with their rants about how this information was an unfair advantage during the 2nd half of games. Simply braindead analysis. They have a conclusion and the facts be damned.

dhamz

So then how did they suddenly get end zone shot of the play in there?

alvinnf

What team is that you rooted for the Giants or the Cowboys. No BB MEANS NO Lombardi, Yeah I too wish he had never shown up changed the culture of of a franchise and a region altogether, man I miss Tony Eason too.....

Blizzzard

Thank the lord... did everyone else here just hear Goodell state with no uncertainty, that it IS PERMISSABLE to scout other teams signals, and they take great lengths to protect them as such.

This is the best thing i've heard him say so far.

dante828

Can someone please state what is on these tapes, I am at work.

However, anything that is done for everyone to see, aka team signals, cannot be that bad. Team signals are not a private act, they are always out in the open, they always have been since the beginning of sportsmanship, they have to be in order to work. The fact that the Pats taped them from the wrong location for their own records is not all that bad, as a matter of fact, it is has always been beyond me why anyone would think this is so horrible in the first place, I would even argue that that league rule is incorrect and Belichick's interpretation was the better one, that its ok to use video on the sidelines as long as its after the game (can anyone give a good justification for not allowing video camera's on the sidelines, I can't think of one). If teams didn't want signals out in the open, they wouldn't use them.

Your acting like they videotaped Goodell and Polian in the sack and played it for everyone to see...calm down...and if it pains you that much to watch, treat it like porn and look away.