> -----Original Message-----
> From: jetsdigest@googlegroups.com [mailto:jetsdigest@googlegroups.com]
On
> Behalf Of Sean Comerford
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:29 PM
> To: jetsdigest@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [Jets Digest] Re: Spygate Revisited

> --- On Thu, 5/15/08, Alan Topal <ATo...@uamail.albany.edu> wrote:

> > Here's what the Pats did:  they tried to figure out
> > what the other team
> > was going to do before they did it.  Same as every other
> > team in the
> > league.  That's the intent, that's the
> > "crime".  So long as they didn't
> > steal the playbook or spy on a meeting, I don't really
> > care what tool
> > they used to do it.

> How is it exactly that you know what they did? Part of Belichik's
inner
> circle?

> You have no idea just like the rest of us so it's a complete matter of
> opinion / speculation.

> Sure, every team in the league is more than willing to bend if not
> completely break the rules. But we'll never know to what extent the
Pats
> "cheated" and even if we did, we'd probably never be able to figure
out
> how common place it is among other teams.

> More importantly, as I said, you can sit here sit here saying "no
biggie"
> while I sit here saying "put an asterisk" until we're blue in the face
but
> it's pointless b/c we just don't know enough. That's why the whole
thing
> (and this thread) should just go away.