Recently the Jets were found guilty of "CHEATING" in such a manner as to possibly cause injury to a player. What was the league's response? A slap on the wrist and a lot of detective work to find tape on the Patriots doing it> Did Charlie Casserly or Jay Glazer go out of their way to spread the story about the jets taping in 06; did they comb game tapes to see other teams taping from the sidelines? THen a player from his beloved Jets called a Pats player an A-hole and another player from the Jets threatened a Pats player's career: the league response, warn all of the teams left in the playoffs although every other team accounted itself with the decorum expected. The Jets team was responsible for so many indiscretions this year that it's hard to recall all of them yet the league seemed unconcerned about it, a complete 180 from their hyper controlling interest in all of the other teams.
IN 08 Goodell in his press conference stated that other teams "scouted" signals but the Pats did it illegally. Probably the stupidest comment on the whole farce yet he was never called on it. Kind of like saying "my kids helped themselves to candy from the drugstore but your kids stole it." The questions that were never asked are, "Isn't a stolen signal a stolen signal" and "why are some methods acceptable?" Along with. "During the 06 season the Jets were asked to stop taping the Pats yet continued to do so and claimed the Pats gave them permission, why would the Patriots allow the Jets to do this if it was such a
an advantage?" So it seems obvious to me that either the Jets lied or the Pats were cruxified over something they consider trivial.
You don't always have to go looking too hard, sometimes things just kind of fall into your lap. I'm sure that it was just hard work on Glazer's part that he was able to have the video evidence of the Pats purportedly doing their own tripping on the sidelines, just in time to broadcast it before the Pats-Rats playoff game. Coincidentally "Lucky Jay" Glazer was also the recipient of the Spygate tape that was released to Fox Sports. Ol' "Lucky Jay" is real good at being in the right place at the right time.
'Spygate' leak could lead to investigation - Shutdown Corner - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
'The NFL may launch an internal investigation into how the videotape at the heart of the "spygate" controversy involving the
New England Patriots and
New York Jets became public Sunday.
Two sources said Monday the leak could result in a probe of the league's offices.
Fox reporter Jay Glazer obtained a copy of the tape, made during New England's season-opening victory over the Jets and shown on the network's pre-game show Sunday. The tape clearly shows that the Patriots were taping the Jets' defensive signals, time on the clock and down-and-distance situations.
"It should not have happened and we are very disappointed about it," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said of the leaked tape. "But it does not impact what we are doing."
The sources said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was exceptionally angry the tape got out and there are concerns among other league officials that the leak could hurt the credibility of a further investigation of the Patriots."
I also found THIS part extremely interesting:
"This is the kind of thing where (Patriots owner Robert) Kraft looks at us and says, 'All you guys do is favor the Jets,'" said the league source, suggesting there is a perceived bias for the New York-area teams.
"This kind of stuff puts us in a bad position.""
So maybe Kraft HAS objected to the league about this crap already, and he isn't silent like we thought. Maybe he needs to get louder and more public with this.
Maybe the league has something to do with Kraft not going public like we're all screaming for, but what could it be that could cause him to stand by helplessly while the league stalks and violates the Pats' reputation?
.... This was hardly Robert Ludlum-esque espionage, here.
