Spectors news conference, what do you wanna say?

I've posted this before, but I think it Bears repeating:

Let's look at this whole thing this way:

You coach an NFL team. Team A in your division has an employee whose sole job it is to sit on the sidelines and try and decipher your team's signals using his eyes, and a pen and paper. (THIS IS LEGAL IN THE NFL)

Team B in your division has an employee whose sole job it is to sit on the sidelines and try and decipher your team's signals using a videocamera.(THIS IS ILLEGAL IN THE NFL)

Both of these employees are very good at what they do and both Team A and Team B now know all of your hand signals. Against which team are you at a more competitive disadvantage, assuming you don't also know their signals? (If your answer is anything but "Neither," you're an idiot.)

Ostensibly, the rule put in place prohibiting videotaping from the sidelines is not there to make cheating illegal, it is there to keep cheating from becoming too easy. Belichick skirted that rule and has paid for it. Don't think for a minute though, that he doesn't still have someone watching the opposition's coaches without a camera, just like every other team has someone watching his coaches.

This story has turned into the dead horse of 2008 and fans of other teams who want to still beat their drum of "taint" and "asterisk" and all that other foolishness can carry on if they so choose, but do so knowing that every day that goes by makes you sound more and more like bitter, jealous people. As a Patriots fan, I'm not going to apologize for anything Belichick has done that has been against the rules, he's been caught and punished and humbled, I think, and I'm glad for all of those things. But I also can step away from the situation and look at it objectively and what I see is not one team of cheaters in a league full of squeaky clean organizations, but one team that thought it could be better cheaters than the other 31, and was proved wrong.

And let's not forget, the Mitchell Investigation was not targeted to a specific player or team, but baseball in general. If Senator Bitter gets his way and another lengthy "third-party" investigation is launched, it can only be into the entire NFL, not just the Patriots. I'd almost welcome that to hear the silence from the drum-beaters when their team is implicated as well.

So instead of throwing around conspiracy theories with no factual basis (Goodell destroyed tapes, etc)...

Hold on speeddaimon. There is an undeniable factual basis for saying that Goodell destroyed the tapes -- Goodell. After meeting with Belichick at the start of spygate and deciding on the punishment, Roger Goodell has freely acknowledged that he destroyed all the tapes turned over by the Patriots. That's no conspiracy. That's undeniable fact, straight from the man who destroyed the tapes.

To suggest otherwise is to be such a Patriots homer that you cannot acknowledge reality.

You are an idiot, moron, jackass, worthless, pathetic, disgusting, disgruntled, ignorant, obnoxious, retarded, degenerate, piece of filth... Plain and simple... no arguing!!!  There is no cover up, there is no cover up, there is no cover up...

and while we are at it... explain to be WITH ONLY THE FACTS how the patriot's used the video tapes!!!!  You see, teams are ALLOWED (per the words of Goodell) to video tape coaches signals!!!! YOU PATHETIC PATHETIC PATHETIC MORON!!!!!!!!!  The Patriots taped them from the sidelines... that is their error... But DON'T EVEN THINK OF STATING THAT THEY USED THIS INFORMATION IN GAME!!!!!!!!!  Seriously, dude, enough is enough... that is 100% complete bull$hit to think and proclaim that is what was done... You piece of F*cking Garbage