This is what happens when you allow "journalists" to run stories with no proof other than a few anonymous sources. The damage that John Tomase did do this brand can not be understated. If spy gate were merely about the signals then I think we'd be past it now, but he opened up this pandora a box of taping the practices and no number of retractions is going to make that story go away. Now we have more baseless claims from anonymous sources about stealing playsheets and again this is never going away. When journalists don't have to be accountable for their stories this is what you get. It's also given all of the players, owners, and executives an excuse as to why they failed. They can say to their fan bases "hey it wasn't that we were out played and out coaches, they knew our plays."
Like I said the other day I watched Super Bowl 39s second half scoring drives and what I've always heard from Eagles fans is that we screened them to death because we knew the plays but when you watch the game film that doesn't add up. Just more whining and pandering to their fan bases. I hope the NFL will be happy when some patriots fan gets the crap kicked out of him at an away game because of all of this hatred they're brewing, because it's going to happen.