Yep, but leaving out of the video the Jets' deflation of footballs scheme that actually happened and was minimally punished by the NFL was a strange editorial decision.Next to none and no.
Yep, but leaving out of the video the Jets' deflation of footballs scheme that actually happened and was minimally punished by the NFL was a strange editorial decision.Next to none and no.
I can't find that on YouTube. Do you have a link? I'd love to see it.Also could have played the clip that on is YouTube from a game in 1993 of Pat Sumerall discussing how coaches record signals.
How long would this continued to be talked about if it was the Pats?Also could have played the clip that on is YouTube from a game in 1993 of Pat Sumerall discussing how coaches record signals.
I made it 4 seconds. How can this season be the most rigged season of all time? Rigged is like pregnancy, either it's rigged or it isn't. There aren't degrees.I made it 3 minutes and 44 seconds in to that video before my head started hurting from the stupid that guy was spewing.
I am currently in prep for my colonoscopy tomorrow. What is spewing out of my ass right now is more palatable than what is spewed out in that video.Can someone summarize it for me?
The catch Cooks made vs the Texans should have been incomplete as he did not survive the ground.Can someone summarize it for me?
Trying to find it, I posted it to FB some time ago but it might be gone from YT now. It was from a Redskins game (I believe) where Summerall started talking about coaches recording sideline signals.I can't find that on YouTube. Do you have a link? I'd love to see it.
Glad I wasn't the only one wondering this. I had to pause numerous times to ponder this aloud, but given the Dolphins bit in the description, that made up my mind. Just for the possibility of the latter though, yes, I made it through.It’s literally on the fine line between complete idiocy and sublime parody. I can’t decide.
Can't forget how Goodell destroying the Spygate tapes was genuinely beneficial to the Patriots!So he moves the goalposts to prove the NFL is rigged in favor of the Patriots.
The vocal tone there is worthy of that old Red Letter Media send-up of the Star Wars prequels. That narrator guy definitely has human skins curing in his basement dungeon. And the whole "put the text I'm about to read to you out loud thing right up on the video" feels a little amateurish.Stolen from patspulpit:
I actually had a reaction along the lines of.......Glad I wasn't the only one wondering this. I had to pause numerous times to ponder this aloud, but given the Dolphins bit in the description, that made up my mind. Just for the possibility of the latter though, yes, I made it through.
Can't forget how Goodell destroying the Spygate tapes was genuinely beneficial to the Patriots!
Um...I made it 4 seconds. How can this season be the most rigged season of all time? Rigged is like pregnancy, either it's rigged or it isn't. There aren't degrees.
The NFL took it down. John Madden talked about the Redskins and Cowboys filming each other during the game. But, unsurprisingly, no gave a shit.Trying to find it, I posted it to FB some time ago but it might be gone from YT now. It was from a Redskins game (I believe) where Summerall started talking about coaches recording sideline signals.
Why are we talking about all this? Oh right, because it's Super Bowl week and when the Patriots are involved it ALWAYS comes back to this. Even Deflategate was actually about Spygate.....Can't forget how Goodell destroying the Spygate tapes was genuinely beneficial to the Patriots!
Actually, you're probably right. Occam's Razor and all.“So what could possibly be on the tapes that was so damning to the Patriots? Why would Goodell feel the need to hide something by destroying the tapes? Maybe it was that somehow the Patriots had copies of other teams taping THEM?”
Or maybe it was that, and will forever be, that Goodell is an incompetent ninny who is hopelessly over his skis.
You know that Goodell showed a room of reporters a sample of the tapes, right? I saw a picture of the room full of reporters watching it the other day.Why are we talking about all this? Oh right, because it's Super Bowl week and when the Patriots are involved it ALWAYS comes back to this. Even Deflategate was actually about Spygate.....
Your point here is spot-on. We KNOW what the Patriots taped - opposing sideline signals. They admitted it right off the top. Do we really need to SEE the Jets' defensive coordinator go through his hand motions? How much more damning is it to see their defensive signals than to just know they did it? This isn't like hearing about Ray Rice hitting his wife and then SEEING it - in that case, while it SHOULDN'T matter, I understand why it DOES. But in this case, there's nothing at all dramatic about seeing signals - every fan watching the NFL has seen coaches send in plays with hand signals. We know what it looks like.
So what could possibly be on the tapes that was so damning to the Patriots? Why would Goodell feel the need to hide something by destroying the tapes? Maybe it was that somehow the Patriots had copies of other teams taping THEM?
The idea of BB sitting in his recliner viewing that Charger tape always gets me in stitches. I'm not sure which is funnier. Head in palm, slowly shaking back and forth at the idiocy? Maybe just a little smirk and back to work? Or maybe he's pulling out the lubriderm.Capping off the absurdity of it all: During a 2002 game against the Chargers, the tapes of the signals from a defensive coach were interrupted by shots of the Chargers' cheerleaders performing for the crowd. Yes, the Cheerleaders. At one point, the camera zooms in on the tush of one of the cheerleaders. A woman from the law firm representing Walsh quickly came around to tell us that Walsh wasn't videotaping that game or those cheerleaders.
Then it was back to the signals, the simplicity of which was shocking - if for no other reason than the signs easily could have been stolen without the benefit of videotape.
He showed them publicly and then made this grand gesture of destroying them for dramatic effect (and because there’s no rational reason to keep them except to hedge against conspiracy theories that thrive on “we will never know!” type of stuff).“So what could possibly be on the tapes that was so damning to the Patriots? Why would Goodell feel the need to hide something by destroying the tapes? Maybe it was that somehow the Patriots had copies of other teams taping THEM?”
Or maybe it was that, and will forever be, that Goodell is an incompetent ninny who is hopelessly over his skis.
Not only did Goodell show a room of reporters the contents of the tapes, the whole thing was broadcast on NFL.com. I watched it live, and so could everyone else with an internet connection on planet Earth. Maybe they think Goodell combed through the tapes to find the least heinous examples and burned the rest down so the shield wouldn't be tarnished forever. Or maybe he's an impulsive moron who had no clue as to how to handle that situation and ended up making everyone involved look shady in the process.You know that Goodell showed a room of reporters a sample of the tapes, right? I saw a picture of the room full of reporters watching it the other day.
The "Goodell destroyed the tapes" thing is garbage. Yes, they were destroyed. After he showed the media...
Edit - this part always makes me laugh:
The idea of BB sitting in his recliner viewing that Charger tape always gets me in stitches. I'm not sure which is funnier. Head in palm, slowly shaking back and forth at the idiocy? Maybe just a little smirk and back to work? Or maybe he's pulling out the lubriderm.
Oh, wait. It's stupid shit and BB wasn't wasting his time watching this shit.
I loathe Goodell and I won't even go that far. I can't think of any sports league or corporation that, pre-Spygate, turned over evidence from an investigation to the public. And post-Spygate the only one I can think of is the NFL. MLB sure as shit didn't release emails from the StL "hacking" scandal.Or maybe hr 's an impulsive moron who had no clue as to how to handle that situation and ended up making everyone involved look shady in the process.
Yup. Fox Sports showed it on their halftime show as well.Don't forget that the day of the Jets game when the story broke, one of the NYC TV stations ran footage of the tape taken that very day. The only source of that tape would have been directly from the league office....and Goodell's wife worked for the TV station that aired the footage.
Those fuckers leaked it deliberately and when they thought better of it tried to cover their wrinkled old asses by destroying everything later.
Probably every team’s camera crew was getting in their share of cheerleader T & A and crowd talent shots. I don’t know if that’s why they destroyed the tapes, but it certainly underscores the ridiculous fallout from what was, at most, a minor technical violation. And that fallout subsequently included a $1 million fine, the loss of (another) first round pick, and the four-game suspension of the GOAT for another infraction that probably didn’t even happen and should have resulted in, at most, a $25K fine.I’ve always assumed that the tapes were destroyed precisely because of the story about the cheerleaders. I figured there were a ton of shots of cheerleaders, attractive trainers, attractive women in the crowd, etc. And that the league didn’t want that circulating while they were aggressively trying to court female fans.
One time, about 20 years ago, I was in Vegas during football season and watched the Pats game at a Sports Book. They had every game on these individual TV's at your seat that you could pick the channel to watch. They must have had some sort of direct feed from the network because there were no commercials at all. During the times when commercials would be aired to the country, this feed was showing what the truck would be seeing at the game, however the TD was switching cameras. Practically every break was filled with shots of the crowd, invariably on the best looking women or the ones with the largest breasts or most ample cleavage.I’ve always assumed that the tapes were destroyed precisely because of the story about the cheerleaders. I figured there were a ton of shots of cheerleaders, attractive trainers, attractive women in the crowd, etc. And that the league didn’t want that circulating while they were aggressively trying to court female fans.
That's what I've been trying to do - he's raised his whingeing game this year and needs a smack.Nothing. He's wrong, he'll never change his mind. Don't bother.
Show him this Twitter thread:If say, one needed to sit a recalcitrant Raiders fan back down - what article would you send him making it incontrovertibly clear that, question the Tuck Rule itself all you want, the correct call was made on that snowy evening. Dude won't shut it after 17 years - I need to make him stop. I can only invoke Ben Dreith so many times... Anyone got anything?
That's the stuff! I've delivered the bomb. The rest is silence. Thanks much.Show him this Twitter thread:
Then promptly block him from your life.
Yep. Nor could they score on their ensuing 2 or 3 possessions in that AFCCG..But not before pointing out that the Raiders made the Super Bowl the next year with the league MVP and promptly got their doors blown off by a team that wears Pewter.
I am going to laugh hysterically when the NFL changes the catch rule again in the summer of 2019 because Gronkowski caught, and drops per the present rules, the game winning TD pass against whatever team is battling the Patriots for home field advantage next year.Hey, whaddya know, Goodell wants the catch rule changed!
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22257695/concerned-roger-goodell-wants-nfl-catch-rule-changed
Bank on it: next year Gronk gets the game-winning TD on the same play.
If they even made it that far. They would have had to win an AFCCG on the road in Pittsburgh first.The Raiders would have lost to the Rams, anyway.
or Jerry Remy saying he hates Mike LowellOne time, about 20 years ago, I was in Vegas during football season and watched the Pats game at a Sports Book. They had every game on these individual TV's at your seat that you could pick the channel to watch. They must have had some sort of direct feed from the network because there were no commercials at all. During the times when commercials would be aired to the country, this feed was showing what the truck would be seeing at the game, however the TD was switching cameras. Practically every break was filled with shots of the crowd, invariably on the best looking women or the ones with the largest breasts or most ample cleavage.
I think 8slim is exactly right that when the game wasn't active -- and if you've ever been to an NFL game in person, you know how much time that is -- the cameras were almost certainly aimed at women.
I'm impressed, I thought I had a high pain tolerance, but I could only make it to 3:23 before the painful stupidity wore me down.I made it 3 minutes and 44 seconds in to that video before my head started hurting from the stupid that guy was spewing.
Not that I disagree with your overall point, but these might be features rather than bugs.Throw him out of the club.
Look, it's been 17 years, nothing's changing his mind and his team's moving to Vegas and owned by a bowl-cutted Thanksdad. Don't fucking bother with the guy.