Easterbrook Goes Wild
Sep. 26th, 2007 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryantGregg Easterbrook isn't going to let go of his Patriots obsession all season, is he?
Yes. It's not as if the last set of tapes confiscated by the NFL was leaked to the media within days; the NFL would have no reason to worry that some random employee would send copies of the material to Fox News, would they? Well, yes, they would. Easterbrook thinks that no team could get any use of the tapes as long as the sole copy was being held by the league, and that's true, but that's a big fat conditional sitting in the middle of that field of smarmy confidence.
I feel kind of thankful; the best thing for getting over a big scandal is a frothing conspiracy theorist trying to keep it alive and looking silly in the process. But man.
Fishy, indeed. On Sunday, Sept. 16, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell went on national TV and promised he would get to the bottom of the Patriots' sign-stealing. Four days later, the NFL announced all videotapes and other spying materials compiled by the Patriots had been obtained by the league and destroyed. Goodell, who until then had been very upfront in addressing the Beli-Cheat scandal, didn't go back on television to say what the tapes contained; the commissioner has been in radio silence about the Patriots since the files arrived at the NFL's Park Avenue headquarters. The league acted in a hurry to dispose of damning documents, but has not revealed what was in the tapes and notes, nor said why there was a rush to get rid of them.
The lack of answers leaves several questions hanging out there. Chief among them: Is it possible the Patriots' tapes showed some evidence of New England cheating in a Super Bowl?
Yes. It's not as if the last set of tapes confiscated by the NFL was leaked to the media within days; the NFL would have no reason to worry that some random employee would send copies of the material to Fox News, would they? Well, yes, they would. Easterbrook thinks that no team could get any use of the tapes as long as the sole copy was being held by the league, and that's true, but that's a big fat conditional sitting in the middle of that field of smarmy confidence.
I feel kind of thankful; the best thing for getting over a big scandal is a frothing conspiracy theorist trying to keep it alive and looking silly in the process. But man.
