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Omahan
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| 02/08/2008 7:31 AM |
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With all that has transpired thus far and with the ever apparent fact that Spygate is not going away. The question must be asked.
Will Spygate go away or will it continue?
My take: At this point, I don't really know.
Like The Rockets scandal, too much is yet to be sorted out. I do know that I have no problem with the fact that players and coaches spy on each other. I also feel like the remedy to all of this does not involve intervention by government agencies like the FBI or alike.
Let's face it, it isn't that detrimental to soceity in the bigger picture to spend precious federal dollars sorting out.
IMHO, football will not change. What will change is how things are done on a daily basis. Teams will take more precautions to not get caught.
Nothing will change IMO in terms of whether or not teams will attempt to spy on other teams. Teams will get smarter, they'll start disguising fans with bino's and take that or similar routes.
Lastly, I just don't get the "hoopla" over Spygate. I still believe that it is an extension of the hate that fools have for a champion team. No one team in particular, just whomever is on top.
In this case, it was the New England Patriots.
People aren't happy until they hear that Brady is divorced and hoodie went bankrupt. |
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Crit40
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| 02/08/2008 8:43 AM |
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Lastly, I just don't get the "hoopla" over Spygate. I still believe that it is an extension of the hate that fools have for a champion team. No one team in particular, just whomever is on top.
I disagree. I never hated the Steelers, the Niners or Dal.....well, I did hate Dallas. But not to the extent that I cannot stand the Patriots. Funny thing is, I didn't hate the Patriots until I started listening to homer Matt Perrault. Go figure.
For the record, I have always hated Bill Belicheat. |
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Counting the Herd one hoof at a time. |
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Omahan
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| 02/08/2008 8:49 AM |
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In general, that is my line of thinking.
It has been one of those "borderline" topics for a number of years. John Feinstein talks about it in his book, Next Man Up. Even then, it was an issue that he brought to light as real and yet hidden in the NFL.
I believe that the reason it got tossed into the media forray is from sources that have an agenda. And I don't believe that agenda is to clean up football.
Sometimes big time athletics is an animal feast. A large peice of meat that we all want a bite of. |
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Omahan
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| 02/10/2008 4:32 PM |
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This story was first reported by The New York Times, 12/07/2008.
Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the matter could put the league's antitrust exemption at risk. In a telephone interview with the Times on Thursday, he said the committee at some point will call Goodell to address the antitrust exemption as well as the destruction of the tapes.
"Their antitrust exemption has been on my mind for a long time," he said in a Capitol Hill news conference Friday.
Goodell, in his previously scheduled news conference, said, "I am more than willing to speak with the senator. There are very good explanations why the tapes were destroyed by our staff -- there was no purpose for them."
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I find it poignant that in both the steroid and spygate scandals there is either a former or a current senator at the center of both. Mitchell & Spector's involvement only makes an already scandalous situation now wrought with political red tape.
Goodell in this instance I hope is knowledgeable and in compliance. If he's not I get the feeling he will be taken to school on how to operate within the rules.
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