Look at the date of this article (3 months before spygate), and then check out the #1 method teams use to gain an advantage. Why is all of the Main Stream Media acting like BB was some lone wolf, equating him to a KGB operative during the Cold War? He did not create this idea, nor was he the only one using it. Don Banks is considered a respected journalist, and I’m sure he did a fair amount of research for this article. Let me quote a line from his article, "The most common practice is for a team to videotape an opponent's signal-givers on the sideline, and later marry up those indications to the game tape in order to identify tendencies or patterns.” I’m guessing since he called this the “most common” type of cheating, he interviewed several teams that use this practice. Why is the commissioner not going to Don Banks and asking him who he talked to? Why are the majority of NFL coaches keeping their mouths shut?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/don_banks/07/06/cheating.nfl/index.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/don_banks/07/06/cheating.nfl/index.html