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They didn't just bury the evidence. They destroyed it.

 

Sure. You keep believing this BS.

 

All I typed was that the league destroyed the Spygate evidence. Do you doubt that?

Specter: Pats taped foes' signals since 2000

 

It was pretty clear the issue wasn't the other tapes of sideline signals, but the wholly unsupported claim that included in the tapes was a tape of the Rams walkthrough.

 

And we'll never know if the support was on those tapes because Goodell inexplicably chose to destroy them. Well, inexplicable unless we care to speculate.

 

Yeah, it's all speculation, just like everything else.

The Patriots admit to taping sideline signals and are told to hand over the tapes. They hand over the tapes and include the unrelated and heretofore unknown tape of the Rams walkthrough. The team is at once the craftiest and the dumbest cheater. Makes total sense. But idiots will believe anything anybody alleges about the Patriots.

 

Go Pats!

 

Considering the effort they put into burying the taped evidence of one player beating his significant other, it's not unreasonable to believe the league - whose popularity is largely tied to gambling - would do all it could to bury evidence that its games (including its title match) weren't conducted on a level playing field.

 

That, and we just don't know what was on those tapes, but there is at least some reason to suspect it was something that made the Patriots look worse than they do with what was publicly known at the time.

 

We don't even know that any one from NFL security watched those tapes before they were destroyed in that Foxboro conference room in 2007.

I think it's unlikely there was a Rams walk through tape in that pile. But it's not impossible and the NFL decision to handle it the way they did fuels speculation.

 

Or maybe there was something else on those tapes that would have swayed public opinion.

 

Or maybe there was video of Belichick being the second shooter in Dallas.