Goodell says Spygate is OVER

[NEPatriot]

ATLANTA -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell just wrapped up his final press conference at the owners meeting, and said the league has no plans to conduct an independent investigation of the Patriots' videotaping procedures at this time.

Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has pressured the league to do so, but Goodell reiterated his feelings that the league's investigation was sound and thorough.

Goodell added that he has not spoken with Specter since the senator called for the league to hold an independent investigation. There are plans to do so at this time.

Goodell said there were no new developments on two other issues that came from his talk with former Patriots employee Matt Walsh last week -- a New England player practicing while on injured reserve, and players scalping 8-12 Super Bowl tickets over a two-year span.

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/reiss_pieces/2008/05/goodell_no_inde.html

 

[Jimke]

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/reiss_pieces/2008/05/goodell_no_inde.html

For the time being.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Reading between the lines, Goodell is basically telling Specter to go **** himself.

 

[bradtor]

While sports pundits in New York and Boston wring their hands and gnash their teeth over the alleged outrages committed by the New England Patriots in the Spygate saga, a sports journalist in Denver demurs. He says Spygate was much ado about nothing.

Actually, he says it was about something. Writes Jim Armstrong of the Denver Post:

In the end, it was all about who cheated, not to what lengths he went to cheat. It was all about putting it to the NFL's most unpopular coach and the league's most despised team.

In the end, it was about jealousy. Not all about jealousy maybe, but mostly about it.

 

[Keegs]

ok phew it's over.

Now i just have to listen to everyone talk about it forever.

what a relief.

 

[Bella*chick]

It's as good as over. We only continue it by posting the meaningless articles written by the idiot sportswriters who want to keep it going.

 

[juny]

Bradtor -- nice find! Nice to see a non-fan see what this whole situation really is.

Bella*chick -- your sig would make a good t-shirt

 

[PatsFanSince74]

"Over," as in "Really Over" or as in "Over until someone else yells 'Boo!'"?

 

[bradtor]

"Over," as in "Really Over" or as in "Over until someone else yells 'Boo!'"?

I have a feeling that the next purported scandal, which probably will be downplayed by the mainstream media, will involve another team.

 

[jczxohn1]

Hopefully, Goodell has enough contacts in Congress to ascertain whether this topic has legs with anyone but Spector. Judging from the lack of overt support for Spector amongst his own, one would hope not.

 

[RayClay]

While sports pundits in New York and Boston wring their hands and gnash their teeth over the alleged outrages committed by the New England Patriots in the Spygate saga, a sports journalist in Denver demurs. He says Spygate was much ado about nothing.

Actually, he says it was about something. Writes Jim Armstrong of the Denver Post:

Bless you, Jim Armstrong. This is the biggest example of mass hysteria and mob psychology I have ever seen in sports.

 

[DarrylS]

The NFL says it is over, but the yakkers on ESPN will continue to beat this dead horse ad infinitum..

 

[willdeespats]

Bradtor -- nice find! Nice to see a non-fan see what this whole situation really is.

Bella*chick -- your sig would make a good t-shirt

I agree and so would my avatar. How about combining them?

 

[cartmen]

Bob Ryan stole from this article yesterday without knowing it I imagine
He repeated that line about if it were the Cardinals no one would have cared as much

I saw it on the Globe 10.0 last night

 

[bakes781]

There are plans to do so at this time.

no plans right?

 

[signbabybrady]

and Easterbrook could be heard saying "Over.....it's not over....it's never over....was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbor..........."

 

[GrogansArmy]

Anyone read the comments section? They're ripping the writer a new one.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

Anyone read the comments section? They're ripping the writer a new one.

idiots are not exclusive to new jersey or indy.

 

[Kontradiction]

Eh, uselss post. Fabrigate was already over before it even started. The only places in which it still lives are in the media and on this forum. :bricks:

 

[Joker]

You're gonna have a hard time convincing me that a Long Island boy whose rich Congressman father had a box at Giants stadium, who regularly attended games with his high school buddies screaming epithets at the the Patriots, who jump started his career in the NFL as a RAT EMPLOYEE...this person has NO AGENDA against the Patriots?

Hopefully, the owners can his undercover greenie jeans azz at the end of the collective bargaining agreement and hire a commissioner with unbiased credentials.