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**RoyWilliams** · 02-13-2008, 11:17 PM

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/...s-twice-durin/

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Well, it looks like Senator Arlen Specter didn't get around to talking about the NFL's antitrust exemption during today's meet-and-greet with commissioner Roger Goodell. As Michael David Smith wrote earlier, Specter learned that the Patriots have been videotaping opponents since 2000, something that wasn't clear when the league concluded its investigation in September.

In a post-meeting press conference, Specter elaborated. The senator said that "there were notes showing that the Steelers games had been taped." Specifically, two contests during the 2004 season: one on Oct. 31, and the other, the AFC Championship, on Jan. 27.

A couple of things worth pointing out: Pittsburgh smoked the Patriots in the first meeting, 34-20, sacking Tom Brady four times and picking him off twice. Three months later, the two teams met in the conference finals. Unsurprisingly (in hindsight), the Patriots won 41-27, and Brady, sacked just twice in the rematch, finished 14 of 21 for 207 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions.

Did New England gain an advantage from having videotaped Pittsburgh during the teams' first meeting? There isn't enough evidence to say that, yes, unequivocally the Patriots won because they had the Steelers' defensive signals. But it would also be naïve to suggest that having access to that information had no bearing on the outcome. If that were true, Matthew Estrella (and Matt Walsh before him) wouldn't have had a job.

Either way, this doesn't do much for the Patriots' legacy as one of the best teams in NFL history, and it doesn't do much for Roger Goodell's credibility.

I also wonder if Bill Cowher might want to reconsider his earlier thoughts on the Steelers' other AFC Championship game against the Patriots.

Proof to the fans who said just once?

**Serrated Shadow** · 02-13-2008, 11:26 PM

Great. Now we got to talk about Spygate for the rest of the offseason. Whoopee.

**RoyWilliams** · 02-13-2008, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Serrated Shadow

Great. Now we got to talk about Spygate for the rest of the offseason. Whoopee.

Basically.

More.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3244687

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Bill Belichick has been illegally taping opponents' defensive signals since he became the New England Patriots' coach in 2000, according to Sen. Arlen Specter, who said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told him that during a meeting Wednesday.

"There was confirmation that there has been taping since 2000, when Coach Belichick took over," Specter said.

Specter said Goodell gave him that information during the 1-hour, 40-minute meeting, which was requested by Specter so the commissioner could explain his reasons for destroying the Spygate tapes and notes.

Like i said, all it is now, is confirmation. People shouldnt jump on this like its something we already didnt know. Just Pats fans in denial.

**K Train** · 02-13-2008, 11:58 PM

shouldnt the senator of my great state be focused on more pressing issues?

**BU54** · 02-14-2008, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by K Train

shouldnt the senator of my great state be focused on more pressing issues?

Exactly!!!

And what proof do they have anyway? Do they have the tapes? or someone that just said they taped the Steelers?
Hell just tape the games from TV on sunday.LOL

Did they expect the score to be 34-20 the 2nd time the Steelers played the Pats?
Too much BS for me to belive any of it. Maybe they should put this story in the National Enquirer.

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