New England Patriots Cheating . . . Again . . .

Excerpts from CBS:

"During Week 14, the Patriots sent a video team to Cleveland to film a documentary on an advance scout who was at the game, watching the Browns and Bengals play, with the Bengals set to play the Patriots in Week 15. 

The Patriots sent a third-party video contractor to Cleveland for the shoot. They were credentialed by the Browns, but the Bengals and the NFL were not made aware -- by either the Patriots or Browns -- of the presence of a Pats video crew. According to a report from Dianna Russini of ESPN, a Bengals staffer spotted the Patriots.com credentialed cameraman with Boston Bruins gear on and proceeded to observe what the cameraman was doing. Allegedly, the cameraman proceeded to point his camera at the Bengals coaching staff and sideline for essentially the entire quarter. At this point, the employee watching the cameraman got media relations, who got security and things got a little awkward.

The cameraman asked if they could just delete the footage and it all be forgotten per sources.

. . . the Bengals are still clearly not happy about it -- they are in fact now reportedly "livid" that it happened -- and believe the Patriots were trying to steal signals from their coaching staff. 

It's against NFL rules for one team to film another team from the press box. The goal of the NFL is to create an equal playing field -- via the coaches' film that everyone has access to -- and to prevent teams from stealing signs. You can't just film other teams coaching staffs to get their signs without them knowing about it." 

Ref: CBS Sports

just like this time !The CBS report provides lots of details; especially noteworthy are the similarities between this incident and the Spygate Incident of 2007 when "the Pats employees doing the videotaping were basically told to pretend they were getting footage for a team show", . . .just like this time ! 

Bill knows nothing of this.

I am surprised Don Diego thinks this is news. Kraft, Belichick and Brady cheat. That is like announcing the sun is going to come up tomorrow. 

Plus, they are all hardcore Trump lovers and everyone knows that Trump can't stop cheating as he has done so his entire life. It is like the old saying birds of a feather flock together. I suspect another wrist slap for the Patriots which is more than Trump will get for cheating in his own election. 

Why do you think Brady and Trump are such great buddies?     Who do you think Belicheat got the idea to deflate the ball from?  My money is on the same guy who uses Wiki-leaks and Russia to win an election.

If, indeed, President Donald Trump was aware of the benefits to be derived from partial-deflation of a football, my estimation for the man would only rise.

The Patriots, Brady, and Trump are deep in the throes of mutual man-love. So I'm sure they all have the same views of cheating that the Orange Orangutan manifests. "It's OK, because I'm the President/ we're the Patriots."

DonDiego would think more of the Orange Orangutan if he knew how to cheat at football. This shows a disturbing but perhaps not surprising aspect of DonDiego's personality and mindset. But I woudn't set the bar so high for Trump. I would cheer for him if he learned how to spell "football."

DonDiego apologizes for his reference to President Trump deflating footballs to gain an advantage.

It was intended as a bit of self-deprecating humor, with an understanding (apparently inaccurate) that the interested reader, if any, would know there is no advantage to the President deflating a football.

Insofar as breaking the rules to gain an advantage is concerned, the analogy comparing Trump to the Patriots is spot-on accurate.

Parenthetically, I do wonder why DonDiego is outraged at a Patriots opponent surreptitiously filming them but is not at all bothered by Trump using taxpayer money to bribe/extort a foreign country into investigating a political opponent. It seems to me that the latter offense is far more concerning and should spark far more outrage in DonDiego's principled mind. But I guess it's all OK when your side does it.