Spygate News Update

Date February 2, 2008

If you were more interested in the Spygate stuff than the TV-14 stuff, you may be interested to know that Gregg Easterbrook has another column up today, going into a little more detail on why new stories are popping up this week, and what the Patriots are alleged to have done. I dunno, I still find it all a bit ridiculous, but it is interesting to learn a little bit about what’s going on behind the scenes.

Money lines, complete with practically sarcastic note that none of this has been proved (or even hinted at by any direct evidence):

If the Patriots secretly taped the Rams’ walk-through, then stopped the red-zone plays the Rams showed in that walk-through, then won that Super Bowl by three points, then logic says New England materially benefited from cheating in the Super Bowl. If true, this would be the worst sports scandal since the Black Sox.

Let’s put that in capital letters: IF TRUE. We don’t yet know if the Super Bowl allegations are true. Then again, we are into only the second day of information going on the record and the league finally answering some questions about the subject.

PS: Do you think there’s any chance that the Pats will use this as anything but competitive fuel tomorrow? My prediction: New England 37, New York 20.