There’s a really good reason to destroy the tapes: they don’t matter anymore. Once the punishment was levied they were just tapes, not evidence, evidence is for crimes, there was no crime here, just violation of kind of stupid rules. Yes they broke the rules, and got punished, happens all the time. We’ve got multiple teams with cap penalties right now for violating the cap, they broke the rules and got punished. Does that make those teams evil forever more? No, means they broke the rules and got punished.
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.