'....during the playing of A game." This is where Belichick is screwed on his interpretation - it doesn't have to be the game in which he taped, it can be ANY game.
The more I look at the rule and memo, the more I think Belichick was just playing with fire.
Wait, I thought I was on the 9ers Tampergate thread...
Bruinz, thanks, and thanks for taking it in the spirit intended. I'm not trying to be universally snarky here, I just like this board to be slightly above the muck level, i.e., able to check ourselves as well as "them." Annoying, I know.
No, it wasn't always illegal to tape games from the sidelines. Nice of you to be the one making things up.
And, yes, they can and do tape defensive coaches calling in plays. You really should listen to the coaches who have actually admittd to it going on. Guys like Jimmy Johnson and Mike Shanahan.
I know you really want to believe it was legal before this year.
As far as Jimmy Johnson and Mike Shanahan, if they said they positioned a cameraman to record the signals of the other teams coaches, show me these links. All they have said or any other coach has said is that they try to do what they can to steal signals, not using a camera.
Two world series titles in four years, and even came through the baseball scandal of steroids and HGH virtually as clean as a whistle. Never been a better time to be a Red Sox fan, unless you're a hundred.