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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,493
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
  • I’ve got 0-0 in my work square betting pool. I never win but it definitely makes the game a lot more fun. Would love a 10-0 first, 20-10 half time, 30-20 third and a 60-50 final.
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  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    That would already be a $500 winner in my pool. $125 a block. Every score wins $500 including 0-0 and extra points after TD's so 6-0 & 7-0 both would get $500. Last score gets the balance.
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  • Poncier
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    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,911
    I’ve got 0-0 in my work square betting pool. I never win but it definitely makes the game a lot more fun. Would love a 10-0 first, 20-10 half time, 30-20 third and a 60-50 final.
    Beats the hell out of getting the 2-2 square.
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  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I thought they were caught filming the Rams walk throughs days before the SB?
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,952
    edited January 2019
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."


    ok dude
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  • ed243421
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    The whole world will be different soon... - EV
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    EV SOLO BOSTON 8-01-08
    BOSTON 5-17-10
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    PJ20 9-3-11
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,952
    JK_Livin said:
    Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I thought they were caught filming the Rams walk throughs days before the SB?
    and the tapes were destroyed. yea nothing to see there.  if you believe that i got a bridge to sell ya
  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    Breaking a rule is cheating.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,493
    JK_Livin said:
    Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I thought they were caught filming the Rams walk throughs days before the SB?
    That was reported by the Boston Herald from the infamous "unnamed source." No evidence was found and the Herald retracted the article and issued an apology for running it.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,911
    JK_Livin said:
    Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I thought they were caught filming the Rams walk throughs days before the SB?
    Nope, made up story. See link in Eric's post 3 above.
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,911
    pjhawks said:
    JK_Livin said:
    Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I thought they were caught filming the Rams walk throughs days before the SB?
    and the tapes were destroyed. yea nothing to see there.  if you believe that i got a bridge to sell ya

    From Eric's link above:


    May 13, 2008: Roger Goodell shows footage to media.

    Though Goodell and the NFL did destroy the initial wave of footage, he at least learned from that moment. After meeting with a former Patriots video assistant named Matt Walsh — a man who claimed to have evidence of serious filming violations — Goodell determined that Walsh did not in fact possess such evidence.

    And before Goodell spoke to the media in New York about his meeting, he played the footage provided by Walsh to the assembled media.

    The NFL plays footage provided by Matt Walsh to the media prior to a Roger Goodell press conference in New York in 2008. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images)

    And that was, according to all confirmed reports, all the NFL ever had on the Patriots. Footage of coaches standing on the sideline, giving signals. Footage that would have been legal to obtain if it had been filmed from a location “enclosed on all sides with a roof overhead.” That was the violation the Patriots committed. Filming from the sidelines, instead of a room with walls and a roof, went against what the NFL wanted to allow teams to do.


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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,493
    It's funny how Belichick, Brady, and the Patriots were never "cheaters" until Roger Goodell (from Buffalo area, college near Pittsburgh) became commissioner.  For whatever reason, he has something out for them.  Two very sad attempts now to make the organization into a case study.
  • Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I've never cared about any of these stupid "-gate" controversies. For starters, I just hate how "-gate" has been made to be a suffix for a controversy as if the Watergate scandal was about water. That's so dumb. As for delfategate and spygate, (and even bountygate with Saints), I really didn't have much of a problem with any of them. To hate on the Patriots or call them cheaters for those dumb "gates" reeks of jealousy. 
     
    But just because I don't think their "gates" are a big deal, many people do. And if you're going to defend them, you gotta come up with something better than suggesting it's not cheating, it's just breaking a rule. What the fuck? Lining up offsides is breaking a rule, but not cheating. Roughing the passer is breaking a rule, but not cheating. But trying to get unfair advantages by spying or tampering with equipment? That's cheating. 
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,911
    edited January 2019
    Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I've never cared about any of these stupid "-gate" controversies. For starters, I just hate how "-gate" has been made to be a suffix for a controversy as if the Watergate scandal was about water. That's so dumb. As for delfategate and spygate, (and even bountygate with Saints), I really didn't have much of a problem with any of them. To hate on the Patriots or call them cheaters for those dumb "gates" reeks of jealousy. 
     
    But just because I don't think their "gates" are a big deal, many people do. And if you're going to defend them, you gotta come up with something better than suggesting it's not cheating, it's just breaking a rule. What the fuck? Lining up offsides is breaking a rule, but not cheating. Roughing the passer is breaking a rule, but not cheating. But trying to get unfair advantages by spying or tampering with equipment? That's cheating. 
    There's the thing, do you know what Spygate really was?
    They didn't "spy", they just taped from the wrong area on the field, an area that had been legal up until that season. Taping the Jets sideline wasn't illegal, it was just not allowed to be done where they did it, it now had to be done from a location “enclosed on all sides with a roof overhead." (See the post a few above. Basically they changed the rule that you had to tape from someplace like the press box and not the sideline, but the Pats still taped from the sideline. SO t was a violation of a rule , as opposed to cheating which is doctoring the system somehow...there is a distinction.

    Famously Bob Kraft asked Belichick in the wake of things on a scale of 1 to 100 how much advantage was there taping where they were caught, Belichick replied "1". and Kraft told him "you're a real schmuck".

    They never taped any opponent practices (Sorry Marshall Faulk), its just once something gets in the media folks believe it as fact, like Chris Mortensen's tweet that "11 of 12 footballs were below allowable PSI" in the deflategate aftermath. That was not the case, and Mortensen has said he got bad info but of course never deleted the tweet claiming to not know how.

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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,493
    Poncier said:
    pjhawks said:
    Wobbie said:

    Butt-hurt Steeler fan at KDKA apparently feeling threatened that one man could soon have as many championships as their entire franchise and won't be able to brag about "Six Rings!" anymore. :lol:
    the graphics guy just told the truth.  unfortunately in today's world that got him fired. 
    I don't recall him ever cheating.  The organization, maybe, but even then "Spygate" is a bit of a crock. It was never illegal to videotape opposing coaches signals, but there are designated areas to do so and the Patriots did it outside of those areas. What the hell does it matter where you do the taping if the taping itself isn't illegal?  "Defaltegate" has been scientifically proven to be a crock of shit.
    What got the graphics guy fired is being a butt-hurt little baby and putting the integrity of the network at stake, not because he was "telling the truth."
    Yeah defining Spygate as "cheating" is a big stretch. It was breaking a rule. There's a difference, but some folks just won't acknowledge that fact.
    I've never cared about any of these stupid "-gate" controversies. For starters, I just hate how "-gate" has been made to be a suffix for a controversy as if the Watergate scandal was about water. That's so dumb. As for delfategate and spygate, (and even bountygate with Saints), I really didn't have much of a problem with any of them. To hate on the Patriots or call them cheaters for those dumb "gates" reeks of jealousy. 
     
    But just because I don't think their "gates" are a big deal, many people do. And if you're going to defend them, you gotta come up with something better than suggesting it's not cheating, it's just breaking a rule. What the fuck? Lining up offsides is breaking a rule, but not cheating. Roughing the passer is breaking a rule, but not cheating. But trying to get unfair advantages by spying or tampering with equipment? That's cheating. 
    But they didn't spy or tamper with equipment. Videotaping was legal, they just did it outside the designated area defined by the NFL. If video taping itself is legal, why does it matter where it's done?  That's just breaking a rule.  Not even gonna talk about the footballs (I assume that's what you mean by tampering with equipment).
    I totally agree with you on the -gate suffix.  It's so overplayed and stupid!! Like you said, Watergate wasn't a scandal about water, it was the name of the damn hotel!
  • Poncier said:
     SO t was a violation of a rule , as opposed to cheating which is doctoring the system somehow...there is a distinction.

    Eh whatever ya have to tell yourself. Like I said, I have no problems with the Patriots' alleged cheating. I respect the hell out of the Patriots. But that may be the Stockholm Syndrome talking because I'm a Dolphins fan. 
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  • pjhawks
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    and Aaron Hernandez wasn't a murderer...ok