Comments on: Arlen Specter: Extensive Spying By Cheating Patriots*

By: T

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:27:40 +0000

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).

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:07:03 +0000

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

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:42:45 +0000

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

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:27:32 +0000

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

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:45:30 +0000

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.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:36:34 +0000

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?

By: The Editors

The Editors — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:42:33 +0000

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

Fixed.

By: C4D

C4D — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:12:55 +0000

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!

By: Angela Johnson

Angela Johnson — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:55:10 +0000

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.