Raise your hand if you had the Giants winning the Super Bowl.
Well, the Giants believed in themselves and they did what no other team has done this year: put the quarterback on the ground time after time after time. And then they came through in the clutch when the other teams who "almost" beat them did not.
Growing up in Philadelphia and now living in Tampa (the Giants beat the Bucs in their first playoff game this year), I am most certainly not a Giants fan. But I was absolutely rooting for them to win.
I used to be a Patriots fan of sorts. Thought they went about business the right way. I have changed my views on this.
In the beginning of this year, "Spygate" came out. The coach was fined a half a million and he didn't want ANYONE to know what he did, how he benefitted, how often he did it, etc. etc. In an earlier post, I go into this a bit more.
Then I find out the commissioner destroyed the tapes. And his reason was he didn't want another team to get a hold of them and benefit. Hmm. I guess that means he didn't trust the NFL vault to secure these tapes.
I think there's another reason he destroyed the tapes. I think he didn't want football to become another baseball. Baseball's problems with steroids, Mitchell's report notwithstanding, are NOT going away anytime soon. There will be more and more questions; more and more media scrutiny; more and more players being outed. My suspicion is that NFL Commissioner Goodell figures he'll answer questions for a couple of weeks about why he had the tapes destroyed, but guess what? The tapes are destroyed, so the ENORMOUS OTHER QUESTIONS that would be asked IF and WHEN the press and the fans were given access to these tapes...well, these questions don't have any shelf life now, do they?
So, if Roger Goodell wanted to prevent the NFL from being tarnished in the way baseball is with steroids and the way the NBA has been with the ref scandal and going into the stands and beating up on fans, well, one very simple way was to destroy the evidence.
Now we hear that a Patriot's employee was instructed to videotape the Rams walk-through prior to their Super Bowl Game with the Pats.
Hmm.
Something tells me this is not going to go away anytime soon and the fallout to the Pats could be very rough. Live by the sword...
