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"They have won because they cheated."

Patriots beat the Rams in the Super Bowl because they cheated?

Patriots beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl because they cheated?

Patriots beat the Panthers in the Super Bowl because they cheated?

Ohh the Patriots lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl because they did not cheat?

The notion that the Patriots "cheated" because they took pictures/video in a stadium that held 60,000 potential camera holders, never mind the media is ludicrous. The particular rule that cost them a first round Draft choice last year is assinine.

I hope that it makes you feel better about your "team" to hold the notion that if those Patriots did not have someone taking pictures they would have beat New England on the field.

Excellent post. Thank you.

The notion that the Patriots "cheated" because they took pictures/video in a stadium that held 60,000 potential camera holders, never mind the media is ludicrous. The particular rule that cost them a first round Draft choice last year is assinine.

Sez you, Bay State Boy. Yeah, they cheated. No, football teams, pro or college, can't do their own taping, and use it to steal signs. Yes, that rule is well known, and if guy who was caught doing it again had been, say the coach of the Lions, he probably would have been canned by the league.

Can I prove stealing signs ever helped the Patriots on a single play, much less helped them win Super Bowels? No. But then you can't prove it didn't.

That is why cheating is usually punished a lot more harshly than happened to the Patriots. Maybe the guy caught with a copy of the periodic table taped to his forearm would have aced the chemistry exam without it. We can't tell, so he gets a zero.

Maybe Bilichick would have won as many games, or more without cheating. We can't tell, so gets an * next to his name for all time.

Bilichick was caught cheating and now the Bilichick era has a big fat stain on it. Nobody outside New England cares what they’ve done. The team and the coach are now known classless cheaters.

Hey, it sucks, wasting all that time and effort as a fan, but that’s reality.