Only IDIOTS surprised....

Gee said teams that were taped.......GAVE PERMISSION TO & KNEW WHAT THE PATS WERE UP TO..............let's not forget that the flipping of the bird, laughs, smiles, & other gestures THAT WERE ON SAID tapes.........weren't even mentioned in the mainstream GOSSIP rags that call themselves sports stations.

Matt Walsh changed his story from Goodell's interview to Specters..........this guy obviously has some issues with the team........afterall he was fired for ILLEGALLY taping........hmmmmmmmmm......I bet he thinks Nixon was our best President.

So Belichick is essentially guilty of being an A-HOLE......................unless they were clueless ****S..........teams knew what the Pats were up to.

Where's Matt going next? HBO's done now what...........the Today Show, Oprah, Bill O'Reilly?????????????? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The Pats (as well as the entire league) had just been warned a couple weeks prior to that opening game specifically what they were not allowed to do."

this is not a true statement.  the letter was not even written until the day of the first game of the regular season.  i used to have the link so you could see it for yourself.  it was posted on espn.com

yes what mangini did last year was technically against the rules.  if it did help the pats though, whatever they were doing was the greatest secret ever kept for 7 years!!!  if the Steelers didn't change their gameplan or change signals before that championship game, they are the dumbest team in history!!!

it is just hard for me to believe that for seven years not one coach wanted to see what the pats were taping with these "extra video camera's"  in fact i don't believe it at all.  i hope that spector does have a big investigation.  i won't say all, but most teams will be included.  I GAURENTEE IT!!!!  WRITE IT DOWN NOW.  YES I SAID IT ON HERE.

Only IDIOTS still try and defend what Bill Belicheat and the Patriots did.  HE KNOWINGLY CHEATED AND LIED ABOUT IT!!!!!!  HE TRIED TO COVER HIS TRACKS EVERY STEP OF THE WAY!!!!  WHAT DON'T YOU GET????? 

theaace ..Your team cheated and your owener said he didnt kmow. Rooney writes the cheeks i think he lied too. Somehow you still root for them. Stop being blinded by your own obsession heed yor bown words.......

Saturday, May 20, 2000

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NEW YORK -- The Steelers will lose their third-round choice in the 2001 draft as part of a settlement for a salary cap violation .

The Steelers also were fined $150,000 by the league yesterday and told to pay retired offensive lineman Will Wolford $400,000.

The settlement avoided a ruling by a special master appointed by the NFL Management Council.

The penalties were part of a case that has been pending since June, when the Steelers informed the league that they had made an undisclosed commitment to pay Wolford without including it in his contract. The NFL considers that a violation of the salary cap.

Dan Rooney, the team's president, serves on the Management Council advisory board. He said at the time the report was filed with the NFL that he didn't think the team had done anything wrong.

"Although we believe the incident did not warrant such a harsh penalty, the settlement is indicative of the seriousness in which the NFL will treat salary-cap violations. We accept the retribution," Rooney said in a statement released yesterday.

The league said in a statement that Wolford's agent was unaware of the undisclosed commitment at the time it was made.

"The salary-cap provisions are designed to create a level playing field for all clubs," Management Council chairman Harold Henderson said in the NFL's statement.

"Undisclosed compensation arrangements undermine that level playing field and provide the club involved with an unfair advantage. ... In my judgment, this settlement, which takes into account the Steelers' cooperation  with the league's , represents a fair resolution of the dispute."