Posted on 09/08/2015 10:51:17 AM PDT by sparklite2
In fact, many former New England coaches and employees insist that the taping of signals wasn’t even the most effective cheating method the Patriots deployed in that era. Several of them acknowledge that during pregame warm-ups, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into the visiting locker room and steal the play sheet, listing the first 20 or so scripted calls for the opposing team’s offense. (The practice became so notorious that some coaches put out fake play sheets for the Patriots to swipe.)
Numerous former employees say the Patriots would have someone rummage through the visiting team hotel for playbooks or scouting reports. [Patriots video employee Matt] Walsh later told investigators that he was once instructed to remove the labels and erase tapes of a Patriots practice because the team had illegally used a player on injured reserve.
At Gillette Stadium, the scrambling and jamming of the opponents’ coach-to-quarterback radio line — “small s—” that many teams do, according to a former Pats assistant coach — occurred so often that one team asked a league official to sit in the coaches’ box during the game and wait for it to happen. Sure enough, on a key third down, the headset went out.
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Nor change all the SB’s they have won.
The guy reporting this is Matt Bonesteel? Really? Sounds like a made-up The Onion name.
Ok but this story is just a bit to fantastic and outrageous not to be true.
Belichick is a cheating POS who should have been thrown out of the NFL long ago. Brady is his cheating scion. They are both scummy.
At first I thought this was a leaked story to get at the Pats for Brady winning the appeal. But clearly, Goodell is the one (again) with egg on his face.
All your base are belong to us.
Discouraging that there happens to be one certain team that thinks they are exempt from discipline for bad behavior,
5.56mm
The snow plow incident. The beginning of the Patriots’ cheating tradition...
Cheat to Win - I hear the Patriots are hiring Lance Armstrong as their new General Manager.
More of a two sided ax job. Neither the league nor the Pats come out of that looking good. It’s an interesting story, very long, but interesting.
Sour grapes. Poor, pathetic losers.
The Dolphins were offered use of the plow on their next possession. Shula declined. BTW, this was three owners ago and Tom Brady was five. Want to talk about Paul Hornung shaving points?
Washington Post has a story about how Bellicheat learned it from his old man.
Easy all the NFL people involved in both are Ex NY Jet employees who were with the Jets when BB left them at the altar.
It wasn’t the “game winning field goal”. The Dolphins had another possession and Shula declined the use of the snow plow which was offered when they were in field goal range. Shula was so sure that the NFL would nullify the outcome. That he made sure the Dolphins lost. Yeah and teams leave the script laying around. Just like traded players never give up what they know about the old team’s Playbook.
#4 & 10 Patriots’ rule-bending goes back decades, to ‘snow plow’ game in 1982
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-patriots-scandal-20150201-story.html
Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowplow_Game
The incident is commemorated with an interactive exhibit at the Hall at Patriot Place within the Patriots’ current home, Gillette Stadium. The plow itself, a John Deere Model 314 tractor with sweeper attached, hangs from the ceiling at the exhibit
Snowplow driver
http://old.post-gazette.com/steelers/20020125foxboro5.asp
Video of the moment in the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqwbGS4_NCA
No nothing in the rulebook, the guy who drove the sweeper has passed away.
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