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New Allegations of the New England Patriots Cheating
From: Roundhead.
I can come to no other conclusion than this. I’m a man who loves if not lusts the majestic, American game of football. But what happened yesterday leaves me no other choice than to say the following.
Today, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL should begin a thorough investigation of the New England Patriots in general and team owner Robert Kraft in particular. If found guilty, Kraft should be stripped of his ownership of the Patriots and he should be banished from ever owning any type of percentage in a professional sports franchise in America ever again. The Patriots should lose of ALL their selections in the 2008 — and 2009 — NFL Drafts.
They’ve been warned against cheating. And in response, they did something even worse than what they’ve been already found guilty of.
And they should be punished, lest the season ticket holders and other ducat buyers of the other 31 teams wonder if the league office thinks it’s okay that the behavior that happened at the Redskins-Patriots game on Sunday is somehow tolerated.
For those of you who missed it, the Redskins 52-7 loss to the Patriots at Foxboro on Sunday included an alleged strange circumstance of the communication between the Redskins coaches up high in the coaching boxes and the ones on the field being broken off due to their phone systems between the boxes and the sidelines going out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102801563.html
The sad thing is that the Pats don’t need to engage in this type of behavior. They clearly are an extremely talented football team.
But this isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened. Read on.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ing/index.html
“At one point we had a good drive going against the Patriots,” said one Lion who doesn’t want his name involved in this mess, but was willing to talk about it. “Mike Martzreally had ‘em going. They were getting fouled up, lining up wrong, we were moving the ball. Then boom, the headset from the sidelines to the coaches’ booth goes out.
“Next possession we were moving the ball again and the same thing happened. You know it only takes two or three plays to mess up a drive.”
Matt Millen, the Lions’ GM, says he was talking to another team’s head coach at the league meetings. He started telling him the story.
“Yeah, I know,” the coach said. “Headset went out. It happened to me in Foxboro, too.”
http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/...ne_it_was.html
Coaches like the Jaguars’ Jack DelRio, the Lions’ Rod Marinelli and the Bengals’ Marvin Lewis swapped stories of mysterious equipment breakdowns in Foxboro.
When SpyGate surfaced after the Pats win over the Jets in Week One, I shrugged it off. “There’s a good chance that most of the league does this kind of thing,” I thought. “And if the Patriots simply had a guy taking notes instead of running a camera, they would’ve been within the laws of the league and no one would’ve said anything.” So it’s not like I’m some anti-Pats partisan.
But this is way, way, waaaaay different.
Trying to read a team’s defensive signals is an attempt to get a competitive advantage is one thing.
What the Patriots are accused of doing during their home games is deliberately sabotaging the other team’s chances. It would be no different than spiking the other team’s Gatorade buckets. By no uncertain terms, what the Patriots are accused of is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.
Chew on this for a moment — do you think that the Patriots would’ve blown that huge second-half lead to the Colts in the AFC title game last season had the game been played at Foxboro instead of Indy? Would Peyton Manning been able to shred the Pats D in the second half of that game if he couldn’t consistently communicate with offensive coordinator Tom Moore? Perhaps not, and we’d still be calling Manning a big game choker. Unfairly, obviously.
If this were a college program (say the U, or Florida State) that had performed this sort of Nixonian sabotage, the media would be crying the phrase “lack of institutional control” — and they’d undeniably be absolutely right. The school in question would lose scholarships, have wins or bowl victories stripped from them, perhaps even be subject to the dreaded “death penalty” that Southern Methodist once suffered.
If Kraft didn’t know this was going on in his own stadium — one that he begged the people of Massachuesetts to pay for and build for him, even to the point of threating to move the team, I might add — then he is the worst, most clueless owner in the history of sports. If he did know and let it go on anyway, then he is the worst, most ruthless owner in history.
Notice the similarity between those two circumstances?
If the New England Patriots are engaging in this type of behavior, they should meet nearly the same fate as the crooks and liars from SMU. Hell, let them go 19-0. If what happened on Sunday at Gillette Stadium is what we suspect it might be, I can’t imagine anyone south of “Bahstan” wouldn’t slam the same type of asterik next to their fake, contrived unblemished records that most are eager to do next to the accomplishments of a certain baseball player named Barry Lamar Bonds.
Banish Kraft. Same for “genius” General Manager Scott Pioli. Bill Belichick, meet Pete Rose. Hell, at least Charlie Hustle didn’t try to sabotage the other team when he put his money down.
For the first time this season, I am proud to be a Miami Dolphins fan.
And if it were them doing this, I’d say the same damned fate should meet them. And be completely and totally embarassed for me and my beloved team.
Mr. Goodell, you’ve spent your first two seasons on the job trying to create an image that you’re the Law and Order commissioner.
The time is now. Either you’re serious about that image….or you’re nothing but a poseur and a disgrace to the memory of the late, great Pete Rozelle.
Your choice.
Do the right thing. Get to work
Source: ballsiest.com
I can come to no other conclusion than this. I’m a man who loves if not lusts the majestic, American game of football. But what happened yesterday leaves me no other choice than to say the following.
Today, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL should begin a thorough investigation of the New England Patriots in general and team owner Robert Kraft in particular. If found guilty, Kraft should be stripped of his ownership of the Patriots and he should be banished from ever owning any type of percentage in a professional sports franchise in America ever again. The Patriots should lose of ALL their selections in the 2008 — and 2009 — NFL Drafts.
They’ve been warned against cheating. And in response, they did something even worse than what they’ve been already found guilty of.
And they should be punished, lest the season ticket holders and other ducat buyers of the other 31 teams wonder if the league office thinks it’s okay that the behavior that happened at the Redskins-Patriots game on Sunday is somehow tolerated.
For those of you who missed it, the Redskins 52-7 loss to the Patriots at Foxboro on Sunday included an alleged strange circumstance of the communication between the Redskins coaches up high in the coaching boxes and the ones on the field being broken off due to their phone systems between the boxes and the sidelines going out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102801563.html
The sad thing is that the Pats don’t need to engage in this type of behavior. They clearly are an extremely talented football team.
But this isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened. Read on.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ing/index.html
“At one point we had a good drive going against the Patriots,” said one Lion who doesn’t want his name involved in this mess, but was willing to talk about it. “Mike Martzreally had ‘em going. They were getting fouled up, lining up wrong, we were moving the ball. Then boom, the headset from the sidelines to the coaches’ booth goes out.
“Next possession we were moving the ball again and the same thing happened. You know it only takes two or three plays to mess up a drive.”
Matt Millen, the Lions’ GM, says he was talking to another team’s head coach at the league meetings. He started telling him the story.
“Yeah, I know,” the coach said. “Headset went out. It happened to me in Foxboro, too.”
http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/...ne_it_was.html
Coaches like the Jaguars’ Jack DelRio, the Lions’ Rod Marinelli and the Bengals’ Marvin Lewis swapped stories of mysterious equipment breakdowns in Foxboro.
When SpyGate surfaced after the Pats win over the Jets in Week One, I shrugged it off. “There’s a good chance that most of the league does this kind of thing,” I thought. “And if the Patriots simply had a guy taking notes instead of running a camera, they would’ve been within the laws of the league and no one would’ve said anything.” So it’s not like I’m some anti-Pats partisan.
But this is way, way, waaaaay different.
Trying to read a team’s defensive signals is an attempt to get a competitive advantage is one thing.
What the Patriots are accused of doing during their home games is deliberately sabotaging the other team’s chances. It would be no different than spiking the other team’s Gatorade buckets. By no uncertain terms, what the Patriots are accused of is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.
Chew on this for a moment — do you think that the Patriots would’ve blown that huge second-half lead to the Colts in the AFC title game last season had the game been played at Foxboro instead of Indy? Would Peyton Manning been able to shred the Pats D in the second half of that game if he couldn’t consistently communicate with offensive coordinator Tom Moore? Perhaps not, and we’d still be calling Manning a big game choker. Unfairly, obviously.
If this were a college program (say the U, or Florida State) that had performed this sort of Nixonian sabotage, the media would be crying the phrase “lack of institutional control” — and they’d undeniably be absolutely right. The school in question would lose scholarships, have wins or bowl victories stripped from them, perhaps even be subject to the dreaded “death penalty” that Southern Methodist once suffered.
If Kraft didn’t know this was going on in his own stadium — one that he begged the people of Massachuesetts to pay for and build for him, even to the point of threating to move the team, I might add — then he is the worst, most clueless owner in the history of sports. If he did know and let it go on anyway, then he is the worst, most ruthless owner in history.
Notice the similarity between those two circumstances?
If the New England Patriots are engaging in this type of behavior, they should meet nearly the same fate as the crooks and liars from SMU. Hell, let them go 19-0. If what happened on Sunday at Gillette Stadium is what we suspect it might be, I can’t imagine anyone south of “Bahstan” wouldn’t slam the same type of asterik next to their fake, contrived unblemished records that most are eager to do next to the accomplishments of a certain baseball player named Barry Lamar Bonds.
Banish Kraft. Same for “genius” General Manager Scott Pioli. Bill Belichick, meet Pete Rose. Hell, at least Charlie Hustle didn’t try to sabotage the other team when he put his money down.
For the first time this season, I am proud to be a Miami Dolphins fan.
And if it were them doing this, I’d say the same damned fate should meet them. And be completely and totally embarassed for me and my beloved team.
Mr. Goodell, you’ve spent your first two seasons on the job trying to create an image that you’re the Law and Order commissioner.
The time is now. Either you’re serious about that image….or you’re nothing but a poseur and a disgrace to the memory of the late, great Pete Rozelle.
Your choice.
Do the right thing. Get to work
Source: ballsiest.com