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Senator Arlen Specter has intimated that he is not done investigating the New England Patriots.

Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said in a telephone interview that his comments to the editorial board of The Philadelphia Daily News earlier this week “didn’t really come out with the proper flavor.”

“My view on the overall situation is that we may well see the other shoe drop somewhere,” Specter said. “We went about as far as we could go, given the public attitude today about the economy and gas prices and Iraq. We’re always very careful about initiating a Congressional investigation.

“But that isn’t to say, by any means, it’s over.”

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The NFL is taking action to see that this does not happen again.

The N.F.L. also added provisions this off-season to strengthen enforcement of rules relating to the integrity of the game, along with eliminating most defensive signals by installing defense communications systems — similar to what the quarterback uses — next season.

Senator Specter is not even happy with all the Public money that is going into Football Stadiums (3.46 Billion) and Baseball Stadiums (3.01 Billion).

And he does not quit there.

“In many quarters, there is a bad taste left for what Goodell and the N.F.L. did,” he said. “I say that because there are misrepresentations about the scope of it. They’re trying to minimize the impact, which is documented. There’s a certain residual unhappiness about it. The pot is boiling.”

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Yesterday you saw how the Walsh guy somehow had pictures of the San Diego Charger Cheerleaders in his Spygate tapes. That was part of the whole New England Patriots spying on other NFL teams thing. Seems the Walsh guy could not help himself.

As an equal opportunity Cheerleader picture shower, it was felt by your author, the upstanding and not defensive signal calling stealing writer, that you would like and explanation from the New England Patriot cheerleaders, Denver Bronco cheerleaders, and the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. What do they have to say about Spygate?

Those Patriots are such devils!

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How could they steal those signals?

It was like they had something behind their backs!

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It is just so wrong and with their talent the New England Patriots should be able to win the NFL fair and square. They have Tom Brady and Randy Moss, what else do they need? Read more

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San Diego Cheerleader

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It is out.

A complete scandal.

The new information is worse than before.

The punishment? A few giggles, maybe a whoo hoo.

Matt Walsh met with the commissioner and this is what they found.

The most scandalous part of the tapes shown before Goodell’s news conference had nothing to do with stealing signals — it was several minutes of close-ups of San Diego Chargers cheerleaders performing during a 2002 game.
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Oh yeah, now you wish you had the tapes, don’t you.

Now we know what inspired the Patriots.

Something just does not smell right here. Why the big build up about Matt Walsh?

Walsh worked for New England from 1997 to 2003. His name surfaced just before this year’s Super Bowl, nearly five months after the Patriots were sanctioned.

After more than two months of negotiations, lawyers for the league and Walsh finally agreed April 23 to terms that would allow him to talk with Goodell. They include an agreement by the Patriots not to sue Walsh and to pay his legal expenses and his airfare to New York from Hawaii, where he is now a golf pro.

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Ok, we have to go back to 2002.

It is the eve of the Patriots vs. Rams Super Bowl.

The Rams are a two touchdown favorite.

Lo and behold, the Patriots spring the upset.

No problem, they just got hot, right?

No, they cheated.

What is with this team? They just keep cheating and cheating.

Something has to be done.

Walsh, now a golf pro in Maui, did video work for the Patriots when they won the first of their three Super Bowls after the 2001 season. Three weeks ago, the Boston Herald reported, based on an anonymous source, that someone taped the practice before the Patriots’ 20-17 upset of the Rams, who were two-touchdown favorites. source

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Tom Brady showing there is nothing up his sleeves

The tapes have been destroyed.

Yeah, it is controversial, but the Patriots tapes confiscated at game 1 of this season have been confiscated and destroyed.

The Patriots maintain that means that all 18 victories are clean.

“We all know it had no impact on any game this season,” Kraft said Tuesday source

Kraft will soon be selling you a particular bridge next.

Come on. They were caught cheating against my lowly pathetic Lions in 2006. Why do you need to do that? Practicing camera angles?

The Spygate will always be an asterisk on this Patriot team.

Players for the Eagles complained over and over.

The Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21 in Super Bowl XXXIX and Eagles players have now expressed questions about how that game played out. Cornerback Sheldon Brown specifically wondered if it was just a coincidence that every time the Eagles blitzed Tom Brady on the decisive fourth-quarter drive, New England called the perfect antidote, a screen pass. Or did the Patriots, indeed, know the Eagles’ defensive signals?

“I was like, ‘Man, I never saw that many screens,’ ” Brown told the Associated Press. “Something’s not right about that.”

Pittsburgh complained.

Pittsburgh’s Hines Ward brought up questions about the Patriots’ two AFC championship game victories over the Steelers this decade. Others have complained about other games.

Until more comes out, and the Patriots insist there is more, fans will maintain a healthy skepticism about the Patriots undefeated season and wonder if they have the Giants signals for the Super Bowl.

Nothing like a bit of controversy.

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