I'm sorry I got ahead of myself again. Many of you out there might not understand why Belfag is a prick, so let me explain it to you by explaining the spygate issue to. So in a multipart article I am going to tell you all about sypgate, why its such a big deal, and why the pats are the gayest team in all of sports.
So, lets get caught up in the story. For all of you who don't know exactly what is going on, here is a brief, and not very well done summary of the events. Basically, for the last 7 years or so, the Pats have been video taping their opponents defensive signals. For offensives, the Qb has a speaker in his helmet which allows the offensive coordinator to directly tell the qb what play he wants him to run. Thus, the offensive coordinator does not have to signal out anything to his offense for them to be able to know what play to run. Defenses on the other hand, do not have this luxury. No player on the defensive side is allowed to have a speaker in his helmet, and thus the defensive coordinator has to manually tell his players what play he wants them to run. For the last 7 years or so, the pats have had a man video taping that coordinator and then taking those signs and using them to their advantage later in the game, or later in the year. They have back files on every coach for the last 7 years and have used this to enable Tom Brady to become one of the best qbs of all time, (minus this year, when he just simply had the best team of all time). However, in week 1 of this past year, as mentioned briefly above, Eric Mangini, a former Bill Belifag assistant, caught the Pats video taping their defensive signals. They actually found the man with the video camera and asked the man to hand over the tape and leave. The Jets then, went all crybaby to the league and ratted the Pats out, publicly. This caused the league a lot of trouble, and caused the pats even more. People began to speculate as to how much the pats have cheated, and privately league officials along with players came out and claimed that the pats cheated a lot. People even said that they would place microphones on their defensive line so that they could hear the audibles offenses would call out. This would be a huge deal and day after day more and more people would come out and say something different the pats would do.
This lead the new Commissioner, Roger Goodell to get involved. He ordered the Pats to hand over everything they had on cheating. Saying come clean now before we make you, or else. So Belifag and the Patriots decided to hand over everything they had accumulated over the last 2 years or so. They gave Goodell every tape from the 2006 season and beyond and claimed that that was all they had. That they didn't have anything else and that they were sorry. Belifag even had a press conference, where instead of saying sorry he basically tried to brush it all under the table and move on. Well Goodell must have been watching this press conference and must have agreed because he rapidly did the same thing. He reviewed the evidence and decided that the pats should be punished for cheating. He took away 1 of their 2 first round draft picks, #31 overall, fined the team $250,000, and also fined Belifag $500,000. He then took the evidence that the Pats handed over and destroyed it. Refusing to answer any questions on it and repeatedly tried to make it a non-issue. And that is where it was left until about a week before the super bowl, when a man name Matt Walsh became known to many, as the Savior of Professional Football.
Next part- Analysis of the Punishment, and the Matt Walsh chronicles.
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