Who's his wife?
Becky Vesuvius?
What is with you lately?
This was a refreshingly simple and straightforward postscript to the little tempest in a teapot football fans have all been caught up in and Patriot fans have had to endure for the last 3 months. All the tortured spin and revisionist re-hashing this week will be about one thing and one thing alone, media outlets and individual mediots who fueled this tempest saving face. Most are pointing their bony fingers at Tomase and the Herald. On behalf of ESPN, Mort is also blaming Walsh for selfishly allowing innocent mediots to make foolish assumptions. Others are blaming Goodell for that as well citing his mishandling the entire matter. A few die hards will simply refuse to acknowledge the inevitible. But at the end of the day it's all about saving face now, as bitter a pill as that is to swallow for those who thought/hoped they had brought the greatest football mind in a generation to his knees...
"The black hat fit Bill Belichick so well.
Of course, anyone who wins as much and as easily as he does has to be cheating, right? Cheating more than he would admit.
Why, he has shifty eyes. He smiles infrequently and talks in a monotone. He wears drab gray hoodies and he once cut Bernie Kosar. He offers little to reporters at news conferences but piles it on hapless opponents. His cold, cold heart allows him to bench heroes like Drew Bledsoe and brush past losing coaches during the traditional postgame handshake.
Some also suspect he is responsible, directly or indirectly, for world hunger, the declining housing market and pollution.
So after the Patriots coach admitted to stealing other teams' signals with videotape, Belichick essentially was accused of stealing the Rams' game plan before Super Bowl XXXVI, as well as a Tootsie Roll Pop from a toddler walking through the team hotel.
On the day before the most recent Super Bowl, the Boston Herald ran a story stating a member of the team's video department taped the Rams' final walk-through on the day before the 2002 Super Bowl.
Matt Walsh, the former video assistant for the Patriots who was negotiating with the league about information he claimed to have regarding the tapings, did not deny the allegation. And the controversy was fueled by grandstanding U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.).
With the way it's starting to look, that black hat fits Specter, Walsh and the Herald better than it fits Belichick.
Today, the whole scenario is reminiscent of Al Capone's vault. Titillate the masses, create a spectacle and find nothing.
Playing the role of Geraldo Rivera was Specter...
Understand this about Arlen Specter, he has been involved in battling the NFL on the television front as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee...The reason for his interest might be that the league-owned NFL Network has held Comcast and its subscribers hostage and Comcast is one of Specter's largest campaign contributors.
As for Walsh, he should have defused this situation by issuing a statement saying he did not have a tape of the Rams' walk-through...
The Herald meanwhile, bit on a story that more responsible media outlets did not...
Assuming there is no revelation from Walsh on Tuesday, Belichick still will be regarded as the NFL's best coach on Wednesday. The Patriots of the last seven years still will be regarded as one of the most amazing dynasties in NFL history.
The Patriots probably benefited from videotaping signals. But do not believe the course of football history was altered by Walsh's camcorder. Remember — every team in the league was stealing signals "legally" over the same period of time by assigning an advance scout to monitor the sidelines from the press box.
Yes, the Patriots broke a rule. And they paid a heavy price for it.
But Belichick's reputation won't be sullied by this affair as much as the reputations of some others."
