Don Shula + *Unbeaten Pats = Sour Grapes

I can only hope that Turbo didn't mean to sound that stupid.

 

How about "virtually" all season? That work for you?

 

There are no little quizzes ... only little testes.

 

Has that been your experience?

 

What's stupid about it? They got busted at halftime of the Jets game. A game they won 38-14 against a team they easily would have beaten anyway. The other eight games were presumably won fair and square. So if they go unbeaten, why the asterisk?

I'm no Pats fan, and I'm not excusing what they did. But if you're going to throw an asterisk at them, in needs to be for previous seasons, not this one. Provided, of course, the NFL really did put the kibosh on them taping signals.

 

Wetzel articulates the point better than me.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=At1IUcaw37bx_YqEnEx_f8U5nYcB?slug=dw-shulaonpats110607&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

 

The NFL articulated it with a 1st-round pick and $750,000 fine.

Take your pick on what should be tarnished... the Patriots' three 3-point wins in Super Bowls among numerous other close wins, or the first game of this season.... or both.

Not neither.

 

Have the Super Bowl wins been tarnished? Absolutely. But if they go undefeated this season (and I hope they don't) no asterisk is needed.

 

What about the idea that if they cheated once they are more likely to cheat again?

 

What about the idea of proof?

 

Implicit with the penalty.

 

Tell that to the steroids hysteria crowd, Fenian.

But seriously, if somebody gets caught cheating once, shouldn't we be a little more likely to question them after that?

Of course, it would help if the league front office would stop destroying the evidence, too.

How about the repeated reports of the headsets failing for opposing teams in New England home games?