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Originally Posted by BossChief
Let me ask you something.
If all they did was just bend the rules just a tad and videotape signals using an unapproved method. ..and that ALL they did...then whats the purpose of destroying the tapes (so nobody would ever have a chance of seeing them and the content getting out) when its ok to do it anyway using a different camera?
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FIRST, Jay Glazer has a copy of the Spygate tapes. Apparently there is what the NFL might consider an embarassing amount of T&A on there.
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Do you have any worries about the Spygate issue if it does eventually end up in front of Congress? Do you worry about being in a Judith Miller-type situation because of your involvement in it?
JG: Well, I got a call from Sen. Specter and he asked me to meet...first off, there was some ridiculous report out there that said I had agreed to hand over the tapes to Congress. I do have the tapes, but am not doing that, nor would I, and if they want to see them, I show them at parties all the time, so they're more than welcome to come over to my house and see them. Me and my buddies will watch them all the time, because the tapes are hilarious to be honest with you....
How's that?
JG: Because it's not just football...it's classic. The tapes go back and forth between... Well, the first part of the tape, the guy recording it , all he's focusing in on are the butts of the Jet City Dancers. He's going from chick, to chick, to chick, and then you see, like, Tom Brady step in and then he'll [the dude taping it] hit the coaches a little bit, but when there's a break? He goes into the stands and then focuses on T and A. It is classsssic. It is like Spygate meets "Girls Gone Wild."
And that's what's on the tapes that everyone's getting upset about? Does that damage the credibility of those tapes at all?
JG: Oh, no, no, no,no — because the rest of it, is damaging. Because they go the coaches, to the down and distance, back up to the coaches, back to the down and distance — it couldn't be anymore clear. They focus in on three guys the entire time, it is soooo brazen it's incredible.
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SECOND, Glazer doesn't say anythign is on there beyond what everyone knows to be on there.
THIRD, what possible reason would Goddell have to keep the tapes? Is he going to show them at a movie theater? What you paint as a vast conspiracy to hide something worse than Spygate is probably more easily explained as "I've leveled my punishment and now we're MOVING ON".
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If you patriot fans TRULY believe that, you are flat out stupid people.
People dont destroy evidence unless its soo bad it would bring a bunch of people down if the content got out.
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Except the contents DID get out, and the guy that has them seems pretty unexcited about it. You think Glazer would hide something WORSE? WHY?! That is the part that really makes no sense.
The NFL isn't a courtroom. It can do whatever the hell it wants with the stupid tapes. It's options weren't good. Put them in a vault? Shwo them on TV (so other teams can then use the "illegal" videotapes of defensive signals)? What did you want him to do with them?
Destroying them makes as much sense as any other option they had.