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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: GangstaBoogy on September 11, 2007, 11:20:27 AM
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Cheatin ass cheaters!
NFL security confiscated a video camera and its tape from a New England Patriots employee on the team's sideline during Sunday's game against the Jets in a suspected spying incident, sources said.
The camera and its tape were placed in a sealed box and forwarded to the league office for investigation, the sources said.
"The rule is that no video recording devices of any kind are permitted to be in use in the coaches' booth, on the field, or in the locker room during the game," the league said in a statement from spokesman Greg Aiello. "Clubs have specifically been reminded in the past that the videotaping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals on the sidelines is prohibited.
"We are looking into whether the Patriots violated this rule."
The Patriots' cameraman was suspected of aiming his camera at the Jets' defensive coaches who were sending signals to their unit on the field, the sources said. The league also is investigating some radio frequency issues that occurred during the game.
The league's competition committee could conduct a conference call about the incident, which violates NFL policy, and ultimately recommend a penalty that could cost the Patriots a future draft pick or picks if it verifies that the team was spying on the Jets.
• Chris Mortensen says the Pats could lose future draft picks if the allegations prove true. Listen
"It's not their first time," a member of the committee, who did not wish to be identified, said.
In fact, Green Bay Packers president Bob Harlan confirmed a similar incident that occurred when the Patriots played at Lambeau Field last Nov. 19. The same cameraman who was questioned by NFL security on Sunday was also the one whom the Packers removed from the sideline and escorted from the field during their 2006 game, according to Packers security official Doug Collins.
"From what I can remember, he had quite a fit when we took him out," Harlan said. "We had gotten word before the game that they [the Patriots] did this sort of thing, so we were looking for it."
A Jets official declined comment Monday, directing an inquiry to the league office. The Patriots also did not have immediate comment.
"With anything along those lines, those are all league-related matters, and anything that deals with an issue like this or anything on a team-by-team basis, those all go to the league," coach Eric Mangini said in his news conference Monday.
New England cornerback Ellis Hobbs said he was unaware of the controversy, and unwilling to believe his team had cheated.
"We put too many hours in as individuals and a team to have to go out and cheat," he said. "If it's true, obviously, we're in the wrong. But I'm standing behind my team, my coaches. I don't think we do that stuff."
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cancel their season!@
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your foolin yourself if you dont think every team does shit like that to some degree.
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Fuck the Patriots big ass cheaters they aint that good if they need to cheat to win
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Michael Vick, legal issues OUTside the game of football that may hurt the integrity of the league. Indefinete suspension. PacMan Jones, issues outside the game of football that may hurt the integrity of the league. Year long suspension. Pats, cheating and breaking known leaguewide rules in order to win games. Lose a draft pick? Wow...
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your foolin yourself if you dont think every team does shit like that to some degree.
yep my team in candan football tram got caugh doing it a few years ago... this is nothing new to football. It is cheating but at the same time its not drugs so im not against it. Call me hypocrite i dont realy care but to me they should get punised and thats it to me it dosent dirty the game to tehe xtent a crooked ref, drugs, gambling does.
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Just kinda gay if you ask me. There were mumbles also that they were tapping into the frequency that the Jets were using to call offensive plays to the qb on. Its bullshit. Genius coach my ass.
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The Pats stacked team has nothing to do with there success.
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rules are rules fool.
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Although i hate the chargers i hope the fuck the patriots up this week and get revenge for last year. LT is about to run wild on the patsies
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Damn, Bellichek got fined $500,000, Patriots fined $250k and if they make it to the playoffs they have to forfeit their 1st round pick next year.
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WOOOOO!!!
GREEN BAY 96!!!!
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they fined the shit out the patriots and Bill Belliechek.
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Such a stupid rule, I wouldn't care if every team did it. If anyone can pick off signs more power to them.
When playing baseball when we were up to bat I always tried to figured out the third base coach's signals and did the same when I was on second base with the catcher.
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they must be using them tonight , they're fucking up the chargers .
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they must be using them tonight , they're fucking up the chargers .
yeah tahs what i was gona write daaaamn
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oh the pats cheat so badddddd 8)
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they must be using them tonight , they're fucking up the chargers .
hell yeah they cheated tonight
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they must be using them tonight , they're fucking up the chargers .
hell yeah they cheated tonight
LOL you guys got ripped in the club
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Cheatin ass cheaters!
lmao
thats a classic
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Such a stupid rule, I wouldn't care if every team did it. If anyone can pick off signs more power to them.
When playing baseball when we were up to bat I always tried to figured out the third base coach's signals and did the same when I was on second base with the catcher.
Yeah but that's not the same as having a camera in the other teams dugout. And if the Jets' claim is true that the Pats had intercepted the radio frequency going into the QB's helmet and sent it directly into a Pat defender's helmet then that is going way too far. If I was the NFL commish I'd be sweeping the visiting team locker rooms in Foxboro for wires.
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aint nuthin wrong wit cheatin to win.
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Such a stupid rule, I wouldn't care if every team did it. If anyone can pick off signs more power to them.
When playing baseball when we were up to bat I always tried to figured out the third base coach's signals and did the same when I was on second base with the catcher.
Yeah but that's not the same as having a camera in the other teams dugout. And if the Jets' claim is true that the Pats had intercepted the radio frequency going into the QB's helmet and sent it directly into a Pat defender's helmet then that is going way too far. If I was the NFL commish I'd be sweeping the visiting team locker rooms in Foxboro for wires.
of course you would...COLTS FAN