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Patriots fined $1.1M, docked 2021 NFL Draft pick in latest cheating scandal
FOX News ^
| 06/29/2020
| By Daniel Canova
Posted on 06/29/2020 2:20:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
Members of the Patriots' TV team were seen recording from the Cincinnati Bengals' press box
The NFL hit the New England Patriots with new penalties Sunday after members of their TV team were spotted recording from the Cincinnati Bengals’ press box during a game against the Cleveland Browns last season.
The Patriots were fined $1.1 million and will forfeit their third-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft as penalties.
The league also barred the TV crew from shooting any games during the upcoming season.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: football; nfl; patriots; pats
You would think signing Cam Newton would be punishment enough......................
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
ANd next they should hire Colin Kaepernick...
To: CondoleezzaProtege
To: Pearls Before Swine
They were caught cheating against the browns. that alone would be embarrassing enough................
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posted on
06/29/2020 2:25:52 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
That would be cruel and unusual punishment!................
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posted on
06/29/2020 2:26:31 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
To: Red Badger
Won’t Cam be riding the pine? Take it out of his check.
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posted on
06/29/2020 2:26:45 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Red Badger
Wow. When you have to cheat to beat the Browns . . .
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Wow. When you have to cheat to beat the Browns . . .
Note that the Pats didn't get to do that before the Dolphins game, which was later in the season ... and they got beat!
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posted on
06/29/2020 2:28:53 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Wow. When you have to cheat to beat the Browns . . .
Except per the NFL it wasn’t cheating either. It was lack of control over a video crew unrelated to football operations, that given prior hysteria they absolutely should have had iron-clad control.
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posted on
06/29/2020 2:31:34 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Red Badger
I'm not gonna raise a strong defense of the patriots ... but wasn't this a while back and it was determined that the crew was a third party company filming promo material for the pats and HENCE this was really an administrative violation? IN other words ... technically some of the bengals practice wound up incidentally in the footage of a non-Patriots but contracted by the Patriots film crew doing an interview or promo footage? And the Bengals let them in?
That's how I remember it -> could be totally wrong.
But If I'm right -> this is just a 'let's pile on the Patriots story' for an administrative violation that the Bengals knowingly allowed to happen and themselves probably didn't know any technical violation was taking place.
That said, I enjoyed and rode the Pats train during Brady years (I suffered as a partial fan for the prior 13 years so earned it) ... but ... don't care any more.
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posted on
06/29/2020 2:32:52 PM PDT
by
tinyowl
(A is A)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
>>ANd next they should hire Colin Kaepernick...<<
Dang!
That is scorched Earth punishment if I ever heard of one!
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posted on
06/29/2020 2:48:36 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: Red Badger
Anyone who cares about the NFL anymore is a fool....
Yawn yawn yawn....carry on...
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posted on
06/29/2020 3:19:56 PM PDT
by
TnTnTn
To: Red Badger
Who gives a shit the majority of the players probably hate the fans because of their skin color
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posted on
06/29/2020 3:30:43 PM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: freebilly
Don’t care much for the NFL but love my Dallas Cowboys.
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posted on
06/29/2020 3:38:05 PM PDT
by
Jolla
To: Jolla
A little mismatch there, no? Dallas IS..er... was the NFL. The time is ripe for new apolitical football league with some of the new rules thrown out.
No more flyover touchdowns. Gotta have BOTH feet in the end zone while advancing the whole ball PAST the goal line.
Just my 1/50 of a dollar.
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posted on
06/29/2020 5:42:49 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: Red Badger
That’s all?
Perhaps they were also secretly mandated to trade Brady and replace him with Cam?
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posted on
06/29/2020 7:33:12 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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