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Originally Posted by zimmy
I think it is fair to say that if you weren't a Patriots fan, you would be singing a different tune. Actually that goes for most of the people posting on here. You have evidence that every team did the video taping?. Any reasonable person without bias who watched and listened to Tom Brady speak yesterday would conclude that he was full of it. The balls were deflated, someone deflated them, and there is one person who would want them deflated. If air pressure didn't make a difference, he wouldn't have a preference and the league wouldn't have a rule about it. One after another, hall of fame players and coaches are calling them out on it. If it is nothing, or it doesn't matter, or every team does it, then those people have no integrity. The world outside of foxboro is going with Shula, Rice, Dawkins, etc on this. Maybe video taping and deflating don't matter, but then why do it? In any case, there is no doubt that the Patriots are a tarnished franchise.
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Actually its been farely well documented that many teams were doing it. The patriots removed jets cameramen from illegal areas in a previous meeting hence the blow back from Mangini. The issue was they received a memo from Goodell the week before.
Not nearly as bad as some of the other things that went on in the league. But new commissioner needed to make an example. The only reason non Pats fans make a big deal about it is because they can.
Hey if that's what you have to celebrate enjoy.
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