Frezo
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Re: For lthose who were fans pre-1988
That's an interesting take. The assumption is that by revealing a tape to the public, it lessens their mystique in an attempt to prove that nothing really bad was going on. I realize these tapes are old and at least in our eyes have little value football wise. It's possible that a football professional could extract a few tidbits of useful information regarding techniques and tendancies though. So which team has their past sideline antics exposed to the other 31 teams of the league? In fact this may be a pretty good reason for none of the tapes ever going public and may also explain why Goodell was so prompt in destroying the first batch.
Goodell needs to air at least one of the tapes to show people what's on them. Take the mystery out of it. These tapes may be a blessing in diguise because Goodell was accused of hiding something when he destroyed the 1st batch. Now the stolen tapes get shown to the public so nobody can accuse the Patriots or Goodell of tampering with them when these tapes don't show much of anything. As far as this hurting the Patriots long term I don't think it will. Heck Belichick just won coach of the year with all this nonsense going on. Life is a pendulum and you'll start to see the momentum start to swing the other way. You're now seeing it with mediots like Mike Wilbon saying enough is enough and at some point the Patriots needs to START TALKING ON THIS ISSUE. The Patriots are to blame for their complete mishandling of this from day 1. They need to start defending themselves. Their silence (sorry but press releases don't quite make it) has killed them and has allowed the media witchhunt to fill the empty void.
That's an interesting take. The assumption is that by revealing a tape to the public, it lessens their mystique in an attempt to prove that nothing really bad was going on. I realize these tapes are old and at least in our eyes have little value football wise. It's possible that a football professional could extract a few tidbits of useful information regarding techniques and tendancies though. So which team has their past sideline antics exposed to the other 31 teams of the league? In fact this may be a pretty good reason for none of the tapes ever going public and may also explain why Goodell was so prompt in destroying the first batch.