I figure there is no better way to start this blog, then to rant about this whole Spygate issue surrounding the New England Patriots. Now let me start off by saying that I am a huge Pats fan. From day one when this story broke, ESPN has been over blowing the situation. If anyone thinks that what the Patriots did is cheating is an absolute fool. What they did is perfectly legal except from the spot on which they did it. Has anyone on ESPN bothered to mention that? Plus there is no way that you can possibly tape signals from the sideline in the first half, then go into halftime, watch the tape, and then figure out the defensive signals to use in the second half. There is just not enough time. Also when it came out that the Pats caught Mangini and the Jets taping signals the year before, why didn't any call them cheaters, maybe because they were in the middle of a 4-12 season while the Pats were rolling to 16-0. As all this stuff was unfolding, the Pats were stomping out every team that stood in their way and people like Steve Young was talking about how they are running up the score. He was talking about that after a game when Tom Brady threw 5 touchdowns and Young was all over Bill Belichick for leaving Brady in for too long. Now all that was coming from the guy who once threw 6 touchdowns in a 49-26 rout of the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX.
For awhile the issue went away until Super Bowl week, when Philadelphia senator Arlen Specter brought up the issue of the Pats "cheating" and talk of someone video taping the St.Louis Rams walk through in before Super Bowl XXXVI. Specter seems to think that this can help a team win a game when former Rams coach Mike Martz has said that would not have helped that Pats at all. Not to mention that Specter is an Eagles fan and has said that if the Eagles had beaten that Patriots in Super Bowl XXIX, he would be conducting his little investigation. Then former Patriots employee Matt Walsh says hes got something that could hurt the Patriots. Now I'm convinced that hes got absolutely nothing that could hurt the Pats at all. He hasn't come out and said what he has and hes looking to get some sort of legal immunity that if hes proven to have lied, he doesn't have to go to jail. Which already should tell you that hes not sure of what hes got. I doubt hes got a tape of a walk through. If he has any type of tape, all it is is probably a tape of defensive signals. The Patriots have already admitted to doing that so that's not damaging at all.
All this nonsense will probably never end. The people that will keep it going are the people that don't know anything about sports and don't like the Patriots because Belichick doesn't give them a fancy quote and he doesn't play around and joke with the media. All the NFL people want it to go away because they know that taping other coaches is part of the culture of the game. Stealing signals will always be in sports. That's just the way it is. Unfortunately the Arlen Specters of the world will think that its cheating and wont let this issue die.
That's it for my first rant today. I'm sure their will be many more. That's the great thing about a blog, it allows me to vent all my frustrations in the world of sports. A hell of a time.
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