There is no good reason to destroy evidence, especially when Congress wants to see it and if the evidence is benign, why destroy it?
“Just violation of stupid rules” is being dismissive.
And it’s a lot different then cap violations.
Underplaying the fact that a team was caught cheating indicates that it wasn’t the first time, nor possibly the last.
“Once a cheater, always a cheater” right?
Why not make the tapes public and let the public decide if the games they are spending $100 a ticket on, plus $8.00 for a beer and $6.00 for a hot dog is legit or not?
Goodell didn’t want those tapes to see the light of day because they would have been damning and damaging to the integrity of the NFL
Billions are bet on the sport, just like Boxing and everyone knows how corrupt that sport has become and has been for many, many years.
It’s about the integrity of the game.
Destroying the evidence speaks volumes, but some people have their hands over their ears and simply don’t want to hear it.
Former 49ers owner was caught trying to bribe a sitting Governor for a Riverboat Gambling license with 400k in cash - if he bribed a sitting Governor, is it beyond the realm of beleivability to think that he just might have greased a few refs palms as well?
And how many teams do we have with cap violations right now?
Violate the cap rules and you lose a draft pick or more.
It’s not something that happens all the time.
Would you excuse similar behavior from the Obama administration?
I didn’t think so.
It’s none of Congress’ business. The fact that Congress started jabbering is a good reason to destroy the “evidence” right there, it’s a good way to tell them to mind their own business.
It’s not being dismissive, it’s putting the situation in scope. Rules get broken in sports, all the time, and when they get caught they get punished. But in the end it’s just sports, it doesn’t actually matter to the world, it doesn’t change anything that’s real or important.
No NOT “once a cheater always a cheater”, that’s a phrase used by morons.
There’s no reason to make the tapes public. For one thing it’s not really their business, for another making them public would further impede the rule that was trying to keep these things unavailable for taped review by coaches (who are part of “public”). And finally if there’s one thing to learn from the Pete Rose apologists it’s that even if you make the evidence public a good chunk of people will still make up their own version of events.
It’s not about the integrity of the game. In the end he violated a rule nobody knew existed, and nobody understood, and then a couple of years later they quietly got rid of the rule.
If the 49ers owner bribed any refs he didn’t get much for it, it’s not like they won the SB that year. And really that whole situation is very much besides the point.
The Cowboys and the Redskins are both being docked salary cap this year for past cap violations. And yes actually it does happen all the time, every couple of years somebody is getting busted, often times the Cowboys who have a fondness for incorrectly structuring bonuses.
And once again you go besides the point. Obama is president, his violations are of the law and Constitution and actually matter in the real world. Sports rule violations don’t.