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Originally Posted by conebone69
Its pretty lame that this senator waits until the night before the superbowl to do this. Obviously he has an agenda.
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yeah, he says he sent his original letter in november (right before the philly game) wanting to know if what happened would have an effect on the game and if it had an effect on the superbowl pats vs. eagles and never got a response, the NFL claims they "just got his letters now".
I love Godells response today
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The reason I destroyed the tapes is they were totally consistent with what the team told me," Goodell said during his State of the NFL speech. "It was the appropriate thing to do and I think it sent a message.
"The actual effectiveness of taping and taking of signals from opponents - it is something done widely in many sports. I think it probably had limited, if any effect, on the outcome of games.
"That doesn't change my perspectve on violating rules and the need to be punished."
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"We wanted to take and destroy that information," he said. "They may have collected it within the rules, but we couldn't determine that. So we felt that it should be destroyed."
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He made it clear he's convinced the Patriots have acted in good faith since the taping was discovered.
"I think it was the best way to make sure the Patriots followed my instructions, to make sure that bit of information would not appear anywhere again," he said. "If it did, I'd know they didn't hand me all the information. Not having those tapes out there, now I know if something arises, they didn't tell me the truth."
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02-01-2008, 07:14 PM
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