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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.Been waiting since the 07 season.Can't wait for NE to raise #4.
Maybe it'll shut some people up. Probably not though.
Sports Illustrated turning itself into a gutter mag looking for clicks... there you go.
Yes, you're right - we knew it was coming.
And here's the crux of Spygate. It only became a big issue because Goodell wanted to make believe to the ignorant football fan massess that unlike in baseball, signal stealing in football does not occur.
He didn't want the average football consumer to know that his own rules as Commissioner not only didn't prohibit filming of signals, it allowed it from certain locations, with sideline taping "for the use on that gameday" being deemed against the rules as of 2007
Of course Belichick is always one to find the loophole in a rule, and with no intention of using the tapes that day, continued with sideline taping, which as confirmed by numerous other head coaches, had been common
But in Goodell's zeal to take a self-righteous posture against signal stealing for the fans who apparently don't notice that even today, coordinators are covering their mouths when calling in plays, and make the average fan think he held a zero tolerance policy for this so-called "cheating" he created a monster that lives on today, where jealous fans are fond of singling out the Patriots for things their own teams are doing
Now Goodell's own cover up is his mess to clean up. I would have preferred to see those tapes all made public - along with the tapes confiscated from the Jets and any other team. But Goodell wanted to make it seem like this was a single occurrence and not common place.
Kraft went along with the ruse to uphold perceptions of "the integrity of the game" as that of course influences the NFL's profitability - but I have to think he and especially Belichkck and Brady regret that now