Boston Jay
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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I love the Pats more today than yesterday.
But not as much as tomorrow.
Question::
Is it "jumping off the bandwagon" to question why the Pats simply couldn't have put Mark Estrella in the stands, dressed as a civilian, with a small high-tech video camera?
Not to sound disloyal, or anything, but I'd be questioning my beloved country if it outfitted our brave troops in the mountains of Afghanistan with flashing neon U.S Flag Yarmulkes.
OK, Benedict.... then why are you posting here?
Richard Nixon was a shrewd politician who had things under control.
He wanted to know what the other guys were thinking so he authorized
Watergate.
Bobby Bonds was an excellent baseball player. He wanted to bulk up
and be a prolific home run hitter so he started taking steroids.
Bill Belichick was the best defensive co-ordinator in the business. He
wanted to be a HOF head coach with Superbowl rings so he started
looking for gimmicks to give him an advantage.
No matter how much we love the Patriots, Bill did something that
was wrong.
Exactly!
Actually, video cameras might not be allowed in stadiums. I'm trying to remember the language on the back of a ticket, or on the boringest part of a team's website.
Richard Nixon was a shrewd politician who had things under control.
He wanted to know what the other guys were thinking so he authorized
Watergate.
Bobby Bonds was an excellent baseball player. He wanted to bulk up
and be a prolific home run hitter so he started taking steroids.
Bill Belichick was the best defensive co-ordinator in the business. He
wanted to be a HOF head coach with Superbowl rings so he started
looking for gimmicks to give him an advantage.
No matter how much we love the Patriots, Bill did something that
was wrong.
Really, your attempt at being "evenhanded" lacks total perspective on what has actually occurred here. The Pats are not being punished for any "violation". Goodell is appeasing the media monster kicked to life by Mangini and his cohorts on the competition committee. That is all. These grand moral judgments are laughable and reflect poorly on your knowledge of the situation. Competitors are jealous of the Pats and grasping at straws to humiliae and bring them down. Read Kraft's statement from yesterday. Who do you believe, the Jets, the Titans, or Kraft. I know who I believe. Everything else is rumor, innuendo, hearsay, and par for the course in big business politics and war, of which the NFL is a microcosm.
Oh, so Belichick didn't ask Estrella to videotape the signals? The Pats weren't warned about this already? Other teams haven't complained to the league office about the Pats doing this? You are exactly like a Nixon apologist.