Spygate

How smart is NFL Commissionor Roger Goodell? Smart enough to know when the right time is to schedule a meeting to talk about the illegal video taping that the New England Patriots were involoved in?

Sen. Arlen Spector wrote a letter to Goodell asking why the tapes were destroyed and why the penalty was given before the evidenct was even looked at?


Goodell said that he would happily meet with Spector. It just happened to be the same day that the baseball steroid hearings would take place. On any other sports day, this meeting might lead off SportsCenter. However, most people probably didn't even know that the meeting took place.

After meeting with Goodell, Spector is not satisfied with the answers that he recieved so he will investigate further.

The Roger Clemens in this case is New England coach Bill Bilichick who is dening that the destroyed video tapes helped him that much outside of halftime adjustments. The role of Brian McNamee is being played by former Patroits video assistant Matt Walsh, who says that he has video of the Pats illegally taping teams.

I think that this may be more serious then the recent steroids in baseball story. The steroids story is old news and hundreds of players throughout the last three decades have used some sort of substance. Why is a cortizone shot or any other substance that helps a player get on the field when he otherwise wouldn't be able to legal and steroids and HGH are not? Taken in moderation, steroids and HGH can have positive effects. I would bet the too many shots of cortizone (I know too many pain pills can be habit forming) would have ill effects just as too much of anything, steroids, HGH, food, alcohol, etc., is not good for your body. Everything in moderation.

The Patriots are the only team known to have cheated by video taping their opponents signals during the game. In baseball, every team had at least one player who was getting an "unfair" advantage. Remember, when most of these player took steroids, they were not aganist the rules of baseball and no drug testing policy was in place.