I could feel the love, so I just had to stop by. It's like having my own little cheering section.
I have to agree that if this is all Walsh has next week, then I don't think that anything more will happen to the Pats. He doesn't have the Big Enchilada (the Rams SB tape) and from the article it sounds like the only new thing might be that there were offensive signals taped also. That strikes even me as "more of the same," even if my team was one of the victims in the tapes.
Looks like Walsh's mouth did overload his butt in some sense (which I had thought was about a 70% chance), although I also think that what happened was that before Walsh made his comment about "things out there no one has taken responsibility for yet" in late Jan./early Feb. Goodell had not yet announced that the Pats' taping activities went back to 2000--as you may recall, he only said that after Walsh's quotes were public, perhaps in an attempt to cut the ground out from under Walsh (which was successful it looks like).
So, yeah, looks like it was only the cheating you've already been punished for, unless Walsh has more to say on Tuesday in addition to the tapes turned over, which is possible, but we'll see. If he does, he'll need to provide additional proof presumably (I still think in such case my lie detector idea may come into play.) Does make one wonder though where Tomasse got his information if it wasn't Walsh as Levy claims in the article.
What's funny is that folks around the League who haven't followed this story closely are already saying that this is new and the Pats should be fined more (including on some Bills sites). As noted above, and as someone who has followed the story closely, I don't think that's going to be the case here, as Goodell did say belatedly the taping went back to 2000, so this is stuff he was aware of in Sept. when he took your pick away and fined BB. If Walsh has nothing else, you should be fine (and that's "fine" and not "fined").
Man you would be a shutdown corner if you ever played... cause you can backpedal with the best of 'em
Your "suspicions" are now proven to be ridiculous posturing and wishful thinking.
Let me remind you that this whole thing was blown way out of proportion for the media outlets gain.
Its pathetic that football fans like you ignored the facts and clung onto all the grandstanding that the media fed you. Lets get this straight... media outlets are driven by profit, not news. If there is something that is news that people will tune into/read, then they use it and pump it up to get you interested, kind of like how lead ins and teasers for the news get you to tune in and keep it tuned in during commercials, just to give you some fluff that you already knew.
Furthermore, while REAL news outlets are SUPPOSED to be about revealing the truth first and formost, Sports news is about....thats right..... Entertainment! Just like the sports themselves. Just look at whats happening with Roger Clemens. Let me start out by saying I am not comparing what he is accused of to what the pats are accused of.
But still, while I don't like the man and believe he is no angel, I can still see that the guy was the best (like the Pats) and what started out as a steroids accusation, has turned him into an adulterer, pedophile that will be charged with perjury in front of a grand jury and statutory rapist! He brought this on himself, but realize that it was the sports media and overzealous fans that charged the hype machine. I guarantee if theres no steroid accusation, these women don't come forward with adultery and statutory rape accusations. People see an opportunity to pile it on.
While the muckrakers in real news are supposed to bring real corruption to light, the Mickey Mouse sports media's muckrakers just want to rile up the "average" pea brained sports nut. Those of us with a clue know this. You obviously don't.
Let me ask you.... do you still have toilet paper stockpiled for Y2K (like the catchy name?, kinda like SPYGate). Did you go out and buy a Y2K compliant PC? You must have at least went out and bought new storm windows in preparation for El nino!
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From all of their pompous blowharding, the "news outlets (and I use that term lightly when referring to sports news) received millions of extra hits on their websites.. sold countless newspapers and magazines, and had MoMo's like you glued to the t.v. screen through countless Doritoes commercials.
Foolish, Foolish pawn.
This all started because it was obvious that ALL TEAMS were ignoring the "re-emphasis on an old rule" and continued taping. Goodell realized it and sent memos to ALL OF THE TEAMS about it. ALL TEAMS kept doing it, and he sent them out again.
Presented here is the rest of the story, in fairy tale format, so that you may fully understand it.
Then one day in a magical stinkhole called New York, a mythical creature known as the Rodent of unusual size (also known as Mangini) realized that he could never beat the evil Patriots and dispatched one of his flying monkeys to the sidelines to snatch a tape from the Patriots, which he sent to the new Sheriff of Rottingham... i'm sorry... commissioner
knowing that this might get the Pats in a little bit of trouble. After the new Puppet... er.. inept figurehead, er I mean commissioner. Got his hands on it, he proceeded to pump it up to dragon sized proportions, to show the villagers, I mean fans... that he slayed a huge dragon, not the tiny one it really was. But little did the Commissioner know that the dragon he created would turn out to be too much for him to handle, and it terrorized the village (NFL). Bumbling Mangini, knowing full well that he had done, and was still doing, the same thing as the Pats, and not wanting the dragon to eat him alive as well, went into hiding. He refused to talk to reporters and even presented a united front against the evil wizard of Pennsylvania... Arlen Spector (cool wizards name by the way) by refusing to help him take down the Patriots further. Thereafter it was known that the Wizard, the sheriff and all of the bumbling peons (fans of every other NFL team) stomped their feet and grumbled at the hands of defeat, after the Patriots had to ride into town and destroy the dragon themselves (ie. signing indemnity agreements, issuing bold public statements) in the end the dragon would eventually deflate into the tiny creature it once was, and sir's Bellichick and Kraft stepped on it....never to be remembered again.
Synopsis:
Everyone was doing it.
They wouldn't stop
The new commisioner told them to stop.
They didn't stop.
Petty rat offers up Pats as sacrifice to get them in trouble while providing opportunity for an example of "swift justice".
All other coaches in the league support BB because they know it is something that they all do, and don't want this sh!tstorm to hit them as well.
You know that its done. You refuse to address the numerous facts and examples I presented to you in previous posts. You act like an ostrich with your head in the sand. You either have me blocked and can't read my posts, or the more likely scenario is that you know i'm right and can't think of a valid response to my examples and facts.
Just so you know.
I am going to bring a video camera with me to all Pats-Bills games and record the Bills signals.
I will turn them over to the Pats and by your logic, your Bills will never win another game against the pats
Since I will be making the recording from my seat it will be perfectly allowable and legal.
Imagine the headlines.... Extra Extra, read all about it! Pats beat every team they face, based on video taped signals that were completely allowable under NFL rules!
You must be scared out of your mind by this. Because you know taping your teams signals is the worst thing that could ever happen to them.
Sit on that fact, while you wait for the evening news to come back from commercial to tell you "what your kids are doing online, that you don't now about", or "what the governement doesn't want you to know about your drinking water"
Tard.
