Cheating - does everyone do it?

Wow , I like the unbiased choices in this pole.  Your either an naive idiot or a Pu%&y if you don't believe evey team cheats.  My team happens to be the Cowboys, and I believe Jerry would cheat his granny to win a playoff game (especially after 11 years); but i refuse to believe all teams cheat.  I was a Stockbroker for 15 years, during that time I probably worked with 100 different brokers.  About 1/3 of em would blatantly lie to make money off a client; about a 1/3 would never take advantage of a client under any circumstances, and the other 3rd would try to do the right thing but might use a gray area that the good 1/3 never would.  My guess is the NFL and most people would break down about the same.  Believe it or not some people really just work hard and try to follow the rules.  All Patriot fans say it wasn't really an advantage anyway, so I would assume that some teams just realize that cheating isn't worth the hassel.

So choke me up as a naive idiot

No. That's just a Patriots fan excuse since the have nothing left to cling to.

Pathetic and childish.

But you already knew that from you excuse ranging back to last year.

I dispute that Rock_Strongo made himself look like a complete clown by posting the definition of cheating.

He looks like a complete clown for not understanding the definition of the word cheating, even when reading it.

Here is what he put:

(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

An all world future Hall of Fame and very nearly the greastest RB in the history of the position, say like LT gains an advantage by stiff arming a defender attempting to tackle him.

That is not at all within the definition of cheating.

There is no violation of rules, so he gained an advantage without cheating.

The Patriots violated the rules by taping coaches signals, nothing at all to do with where the camera was placed, if you listen to Roger Goodall's statement after interviewing Matt Walsh.

They used them to gain an unfair advantage that does fall within the definition of cheating.

He is just grasping at the last excuse he has.

And doing just as poor a job of it.

Why? Because that may just be a made up definition in the first place. Every dictionary reads more like this:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cheat

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheat

What he is doing seems much more like this:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liar

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lie

But didn't we already know these things? I mean it takes one to root for one....right?

That is a pretty solid definition of you Rock, but we really didn't need the help.

I really do want to help you, and in doing so clearly display just how much the definition of troglodyte fits you.

By rating my posts at all, you are helping to increase my reputation as a good poster. The only way you can show you do not enjoy my posts is to not rate them at all.

I am happy that you find my word of guidance and merit to you and the community.

Work on the understanding of definitions, and people my begin to positively rate your posts too.

BigD Domination wrote:

 Taping a teams signals, having a sidline team member memorize them and then relay them to the OC so he can relay them to the QB is not gamesmanship.  It is cheating.  Sorry.  Nice story there BigD.  Too bad that never happened.

Don't let the minor things like TRUTH get in the way of a dumbass argument, eh?

Damn, I thought everybody cheated too. Thanks Pats fan for remiding me...\

Lets all go out an cheat..... see where it gets us

I guess I am naive, I don't believe that all TEAMS cheat.  But I do believe that there may be a few cheating D-Bags on each team.  The only difference is that if the coach cheats the whole team benefits, and if the player cheats only the player really gains an advantage. Is it still cheating if a player does it? Yes.  Does that mean that they are a team of cheaters? No. 

I don't think of the Patriots players as cheaters because they did what daddy told'em, and no one can prove that they had any knowledge that the information given was the product of a "misinterpreted rule".  The problem is that when the coach cheats he drags his whole team through the gutter with him, because in the end they still reaped the benefit.      

      &nbs p;      &n bsp;   

Actually no.  I already agree with everything you say in your post. 

They cheated.  They got caught.  They were great last year.  They will probably be great next year.  No illumination there Mr. reality.

I didn't dispute any of those things.  I simply made the point that not all people, or teams cheat.  To spout that the