Specter wants Mitchell-like investigation

Yahoo ^ | 05/14/2008 | Yahoo Sports/AP

[Darren McCarty]

Aw geez, not this !### again. Of all the problems in this country, Specter wants to spend time on football? The only good thing about that is that they aren’t screwing up other stuff.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Your feeble arguments are right out of the Bill Clinton playbook.

And with that toss of the Bill Clinton flag, you're done. Why don't you compare Belichick to Hitler and complete the square?

[Mr. Mojo]

On the other hand, the more time they spend on this nonsense, the less damage they can really do to the country.

Heckuva good point. You may have swayed my opinion on this issue.

[Hatteras]

LOLOL!!! You see? ;-)

[Richard Kimball]

Belichick brought a lot of it on himself. He pushes the edges of the rules wherever he can. The NFL requires a weekly injury report, so Belichick does an injury report and lists Brady on it every week for four years. He does that as a little "up yours" to the league. The NFL requires the coaches to wear NFL apparel on the sidelines, so he gets the ugliest cheapest hoodie, cuts off the sleeves, and shows up at the games looking like a vagrant. He's required to do interviews, so he sits at the podium acting like Glen Campbell after a DUI arrest.

Roger Goodell reminds me of the prosecution team for OJ in reverse. They were so bad they couldn't frame a guilty man. Goodell fubared his investigation so badly that even if Belichick hadn't done anything worse than recording signals on an Etch-a-Sketch he looks guilty as hell.

I've put this on multiple threads here, and will continue. Wade Wilson was suspended for FIVE games for using human growth hormone to treat his diabetes. He's an assistant coach and none of his actions affected anything on the field. He was fined 1/3rd of his annual salary, and of course, could not be paid, per league rules, for the time he was suspended. That means he was suspended for five games and lost around 1/2 of his annual salary. Belichick took actions which no sane person could believe WEREN'T designed to affect the outcome of games and gets fined 12% of his annual salary with NO SUSPENSION.

Team McClaren in Formula 1 got fined 100 million dollars and had all team points taken away for possessing inappropriate information about team Ferrari.

Roger Goodell functioned as Robert Kraft's sock puppet in this. If Belichick had been suspended five games and the tapes hadn't been destroyed, I'd say the punishment was fair, or at least commensurate with what happened to a coach that WASN'T working for one of Goodell's favorite teams. However, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN, and the reason it didn't happen was because Roger Goodell wanted to protect the Patriots.

[Proverbs 3-5]

If Arlie has so much time on his hands and wants to get torqued off about something how about looking into drilling ANWR and off shore and lessening our support of foreign oil and ethanol...

[DustyMoment]

These people are the worst kind of leeches.

And, yet, when we had the chance in the early 90s to change the system via THRO ("THrow the Rascals Out"), all we did was respond by voting OUR rascals back to Congress because, as things turned out, it was the OTHER rascals we didn't like. We wanted to keep our own rascals because they brought home the bacon (pork).

Doesn't say too much about us, does it?