Sports Illustrated questions if Pats taped Rams in 50th Super Bowl Special Issue Magazine

[Todd Bradley]

At the top. Disgusting.

Love how all these Sports journalistic enterprises continue to promote Tomase's false allegations.

 

[The Brandon Five]

Cue the retraction on page 139.

 

[Mark.]

Cue the retraction on page 139.

In tiny print!

 

[IllegalContact]

I think it's awesome........

these morons can't come up with anything else to write about.......they may as well admit 'I'm too f*cking lazy to write anything decent so I will drool on the paper and see what it says'

 

[Brady2Moss]

I think I speak for most on the board, i don't care about this stuff and would rather not see it. Same deal with whatever stupid thing ESPN said this morning.

 

[Mark.]

We're not even in the Superbowl and are still the most interesting team in the NFL. Patriots sell magazines and get viewers to tune in. Can't wait for Defaltegate II the sequel coming in March.

 

[FourierSeries]

Haters gonna hate.

 

[sb1]

Link: PRO FOOTBALL: NOTEBOOK; Brady Says Ankle Is Fine

Halfway through practice, Patriots' linebackers coach Pepper Johnson noticed something in a third-floor window of a house next to the field.
Club and league officials said a telescope was clearly visible in the window, according to a pool report, and that 15 minutes later, a person appeared at the window, and then vanished.
Officials scanned the window with binoculars, but the person never returned.

I'd love to know but probably never will....
A) Who was spying on the Patriots walkthrough
B) Why "league officials" saw whatever it was and did nothing

 

[letekro]

31 other fanbases eat it up, so why would a national publication not use the Cheater stuff as a hook? It's not like they are reporting it as fact, just speculating on it. I think you folks need to get over it. They're just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

 

[VectorPrime]

That's just a reprint actually. Sports Illustrated put out an amazing hard cover coffee table book last fall highlighting every Super Bowl in the leadup to SB 50. It's really beautiful and would have been a must buy. Except for the Super Bowl 36 section it had that exact same paragraph with the Spygate references as its intro. For the Steelers Super Bowls there was nothing about steroids, and also nothing about the salary cap for the Broncos. I checked.

 

[Wordsmyth]

Convenient outrage from pwned posers.

 

[Delicate Genius]

Guest writer: Kurt Warner

 

[glm]

Guest writer: Kurt Warner

Featuring Marshall ****

 

[Froob]

Link: PRO FOOTBALL: NOTEBOOK; Brady Says Ankle Is Fine

Halfway through practice, Patriots' linebackers coach Pepper Johnson noticed something in a third-floor window of a house next to the field.
Club and league officials said a telescope was clearly visible in the window, according to a pool report, and that 15 minutes later, a person appeared at the window, and then vanished.
Officials scanned the window with binoculars, but the person never returned.

I'd love to know but probably never will....
A) Who was spying on the Patriots walkthrough
B) Why "league officials" saw whatever it was and did nothing

Really what the ****? How is this not the story? Takes one to know one Rams. Titans should wonder if they were spied on.

 

[XLIX]

There is more evidence the Rams spied on the Patriots than the Patriots spied on the Rams.

"Halfway through practice, Patriots' linebackers coach Pepper Johnson noticed something in a third-floor window of a house next to the field.

Club and league officials said a telescope was clearly visible in the window, according to a pool report, and that 15 minutes later, a person appeared at the window, and then vanished.

Officials scanned the window with binoculars, but the person never returned." - NY Times, February 2, 2002

EDIT: Someone beat me to this. Sorry for repeating what someone else already said.

 

[Joey007]

That sucks that the 37 people out there who still read Sports Illustrated will read that.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I think I speak for most on the board, i don't care about this stuff and would rather not see it. Same deal with whatever stupid thing ESPN said this morning.

Do I really want to know what BSPN said this morning?

 

[lurker1965]

At the top. Disgusting.

Love how all these Sports journalistic enterprises continue to promote Tomase's false allegations.

Has anyone forwarded this to Patriots.com yet? I smell a letter from Kraft's lawyer...

 

[Froob]

Has anyone forwarded this to Patriots.com yet? I smell a letter from Kraft's lawyer...

Apologizing and accepting punishment because he thinks it's selfish to defend himself?

 

[Koma]

Link: PRO FOOTBALL: NOTEBOOK; Brady Says Ankle Is Fine

Halfway through practice, Patriots' linebackers coach Pepper Johnson noticed something in a third-floor window of a house next to the field.
Club and league officials said a telescope was clearly visible in the window, according to a pool report, and that 15 minutes later, a person appeared at the window, and then vanished.
Officials scanned the window with binoculars, but the person never returned.

I'd love to know but probably never will....
A) Who was spying on the Patriots walkthrough
B) Why "league officials" saw whatever it was and did nothing

I try to remain hopeful that history will make the people who kept believing in the "taped walkthrough" story after May 2008 look very foolish. I'm beginning to think that will never happen, though.

There are 2 "spying" stories from SB36:

One has been totally debunked. The person who allegedly did the spying denied it happened. The reporter and paper who reported the story apologized and issued a retraction.

The other actually happened and was witnessed by league officials. Was it someone from the Rams? From the Saints? A curious fan? To this day, we have no idea because there was no follow-up or investigation.

Guess which one is regularly brought up, though, and which one is, outside of Patriots fans, never mentioned?