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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.After the whole spygate incident, was making the Patriots forfeit their week 1 victory at the Jets ever a real possibility.
If so, imagine how much buzz that would have created considering that we have thus far gone undefeated since.
No way it would ever have happened. Beyond it being flat out ludicrous at face value, it would have created a tidal wave in Vegas.
The whole gambling mess would have been front page news, and there is no way the NFL wants their product that closely associated with Vegas. (Even though that is part of the sports popularity, whether the league wants to admit it or not.)
No offense, but threads like this are what make it nigh on to impossible to find anything on this board lately. How about a thread "If Bill Belichick's Browns had been 8 and 8, or 9 and 7 in 1995, would we ever have seen him?" As the World Turns.After the whole spygate incident, was making the Patriots forfeit their week 1 victory at the Jets ever a real possibility.
If so, imagine how much buzz that would have created considering that we have thus far gone undefeated since.
If that possibility was ever raised outside of message boards and columnists with an axe to grind, I would be absolutely shocked.
I guarantee if the Pats win Sunday, those individuals will dust off that argument to tarnish the perfect season.
• Forfeit. The Commissioner, (except in cases of disciplinary action; see last section on "Removing Team from Field"), League President, and their representatives, including referees, are not authorized unilaterally to declare forfeits. A forfeit occurs only when a game is not played because of the failure or refusal of one team to participate. [. . .]
Removing team from field. No player, coach, or other person affiliated with a club may remove that club's team from the field during the playing of any game, including preseason, except at the direction of the referee. Any club violating this rule will be subject to disciplinary action by the Commissioner, including possible game forfeiture and sole liability for financial losses suffered by the opposing club and any other affected member clubs of the League.
I may be the lone dissenter on this issue. I think Goddell gave consideration to a forfeit as punishment but could not justify it since the score was close at the time the camera was seized.
They would have had to catch us doing something much more sinister than videotaping signals. I don't think it was ever a consideration.
I may be the lone dissenter on this issue. I think Goddell gave
consideration to a forfeit as punishment but could not justify it
since the score was close at the time the camera was seized.
Goodell may have even been questioned on this subject at the
time spygate occurred.
I doubt it. The Patriots gained no advantage from the activity, either in September or in the past, as stated by the Commissioner. The forfeit talk was from the NY Tabloids, jealous opposing fans whose brains are perennially bathed in beer and a few true Patriots haters in the national media.
Anyway, the conversation between Goodell and Kraft would have been interesting:
Goodell: Um, Bob, I'm gonna make your guys forfeit a game over that taping thing. No hard feelings, by the way.
Kraft: You mean $750,000 and national humiliation weren't enough of a penalty? You want to put a permanent blemish in the record books for an entire NFL regular season for one of your most valuable franchises?
Goodell: Well, now, Bob, don't get like that on me.
Kraft: I don't think any of your big market owners would feel secure going forward if you did something like that. I know Jerry and Dan won't.
Goodell: Aw, Bob, you know how it is. The media down here are all over my *****.
Kraft: Including your wife over at Fox? Tell me, Roger, did she leak that stuff to her bosses at the network all by herself or did she have help?
Goodell: Come on Bob, this isn't personal...
Kraft: You ain't seen nothing yet, Roger. And, it won't be "personal" when I pull the plug on the CBG next season. Remember, no Jerry Jones, no Dan Snyder and no Bob Kraft and there was no CBG last year and we sure as he!! can unwind it next year. It's only those pissant small franchises that benefit from it anyway. Jerry and Dan and I are going to get richer and richer with or without a new CBG.
Goodell: Well, maybe we can work something out after all.
Kraft: I thought you might see it that way.
I love how you Pats fan continually attempt to rationalize this as being ok. Like you did nothing wrong. Slice it or dice it anyway you like but the reality is you were caught cheating.
It's just jealousy, and you need to just tune it out for your own sanity.