Arlen Specter: Extensive Spying By Cheating Patriots*

12:54 am EST May 15th, 2008 | Sports | 9 Comments

The cheating characterization is mine. I confess that I think congress has no reason to be involved in this and its pretty stupid for them to be in the middle of it. But they are and so we have this:

After meeting with a former New England Patriots employee who helped the team spy on opponents, Senator Arlen Specter on Wednesday described the team’s illicit videotaping tactics as more systematic and deliberate than what the N.F.L. has acknowledged publicly.

Mr. Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said the former employee, Matt Walsh, described elaborate measures by the Patriots to conceal their filming of opponents’ signals. Mr. Walsh also explained how the Patriots’ coaching staff gleaned strategic information from members of the team’s video crew who had watched the St. Louis Rams’ walk-through practice before the 2002 Super Bowl.

He also identified more games and opponents that were filmed by the Patriots and detailed the advantages the team gained in later games.

The last time I posted on this The Poor Man got all up in my grill reminding me of the Patriots* killing the Redskins 52-7. Which is true. But all 7 of those pathetic points came without cheating.

* The Patriots are cheaters

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9 Responses to “Arlen Specter: Extensive Spying By Cheating Patriots*”

  1. Angela Johnson says:
    May 15, 2008 at 5:55 am

    Ok, I’m of the mind that congress keeps trying to get
    sports figures(right or wrong) to testify ’cause they can’t get corrupt
    republicans like Karl Rove and Harriet Meirs into their oversight
    committees. So what would we watch on CSPAN 2 if not for drugging and
    cheating athletes? It’s quite stupid really. God forbid we are able to
    get the destroyers of the real universe in front of an oversight— anything.

  2. C4D says:
    May 15, 2008 at 9:12 am

    I’m a big Pats fan that lives in NY. I admit that what they did was cheating. However, is it anything our wonderful government should be getting involved in? Well according to Arlen Specter it is. He claims that it is similar to Steroids in baseball. Well I guess they’re going to pear into the entire league and all the forms of cheating which plenty of NFL coaches and players admitted to seeing and doing once this whole thing broke open. No. I don’t think so. Arlen Specter has an agenda against the Patriots. He’s a known Eagles fan. He’s upset because we beat his team in the Superbowl. Why isn’t Marshall Faulk calling for this action? We beat his team in the Superbowl. Maybe because he knows football and what goes on with trying to gain a competitive advantage?

    If it was a team that wasn’t one of the best of all time no one would care. Congress should keep working on more important issues such as our economy, gas prices, the housing market, war, etc.

    What a joke!

  3. The Editors says:
    May 15, 2008 at 10:42 am

    But all 7 of those pathetic points came without cheating in garbage time against the B-team.

    Fixed.

  4. Paul says:
    May 15, 2008 at 11:36 am

    As another Patriots fan, I say fine — let’s have this investigation. I want to know what every NFL team has done or not done in recent years in videotaping opponents or breaking any other NFL rules. If everyone else is clean then labeling the Patriots as cheaters seems fair, but if an investigation shows that other teams have broken rules then let’s label all of them cheaters. OK?

  5. SpiderJ says:
    May 15, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Not a Patriots fan, but I’ll say this again: every team breaks the rules every game and gets punished for it. They’re called penalties.

    That pass interference call that never happened? If your cornerback weren’t such a lousy cheater, he’d confess outright. That dirty tackle that the zebras missed? My oh my, look at all the cheating going on.

    Rules were broken, a penalty was assessed. The game should go on.

  6. SpiderJ says:
    May 15, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3394809

  7. Zach says:
    May 15, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    All 52 of those points the Patriots drubbed out to the ‘skins came without cheating, too.

  8. Oliver Willis says:
    May 15, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Yes, but we’ll never know, so we’ll assume cheating.

  9. T says:
    May 15, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    I still can’t believe that several years of stealing calls and video spying netted a half-million dollar fine and loss of a draft pick, with no suspensions. Is it too late for my team to get such a sweet deal. Oh yeah, I forgot, NEXT time the NFL is going to get serious, since everyone’s been warned that cheating isn’t allowed (duh).