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kcdc First, the NFL labeled the story as false, as expected. But what I don't get is how John Tomase crossed the line and published a damaging story about his hometown Patriots right before the Super Bowl. I know it's a journalist's right to publish the truth, but how can he expect to ever get an interview with any members of the team ever again?-
str8hoops Tomase must think he can go national. Too bad he is an uninteresting writer and an even less interesting as a radio "personality" who has no chance at making it bigtime. And if he thinks he's going to be a TV guy, he better invest in a treadmill and find the world's greatest makeup artist. -
chone Flat out haters like Felger, Borges and Shaughnessy can still get interviews all the time despite constantly disparaging the team at any turn. Tomase probably didn't want to get scooped by Guregian or Mike Reiss, both of whom are far superior reporters.
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ummfada 18-1 pwnd!
REPORT: PATS FILMED RAMS WALK-THROUGH
ProFootballTalk.com —
When it rains, it freakin’ pours. After a bizarre day in which Spygate unexpectedly reappeared on the league’s radar screen and strong hints of previously undisclosed cheating emerged, John Tomase of the Boston Herald reports that the Patriots videotaped the walk-through practice of the St. Louis Rams prior to Super Bowl XXVI ...
SUPER BOWL XLII PREVIEW
The Slav's Baseball Blog - BASEBALL 24-7-365 —
... continue to spit that logic, as well as the one about the NFL having the toughest PED policy and NO PROBLEM WITH PED USE ought to be writing fairy tales. Just don't read them to kids. Tell me, how do we explain away the recent reports that indicate the Patriots taped the Rams walk-through prior to their very first Super Bowl XXXVI victory six years ago? You remember, back when they were supposedly David and the Rams were Goliath. FROM THE BOSTON HERALD: ...
Pats Filmed Rams’ Practice Before Super Bowl 35?
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
John Tomase of the BOSTON HERALD has news that’ll surely cheer up Pats fans today: “new allegations have emerged about a Patriots employee taping the Rams’ final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI. According to a source, a member of the team’s video department filmed the Rams’ final walkthrough before that 2002 game. The next day, the Patriots upset St. Louis, 20-17, on a last-second field goal by Adam Vinatieri for their first championship.”
Tomase has more detail in the piece, but you get the idea. We really are starting to wonder just how many people in the NFL despise Bill Belichick. We ...
PLEASE USE: Irrational Spygate Argument Thread
Football Outsiders —
PLEASE USE: Irrational Spygate Argument Thread Well, we thought Spygate was dead and gone, but apparently not. So here is how we are going to work this. All discussion of Spygate, Patriots cheating, or cheating by any other team goes in this thread. It does not matter if you think the Patriots are evil, or if you think the Patriots are getting a raw deal. As we learned long ago with Brady-Manning debates, this is the only way to keep the rest of the website sane. We’re suspending the rules here. Go ahead, attack each other all you want. Feel free to mention politics. (Thanks to ...
Spygate Returns: Pats Employee Filmed Rams Before Super Bowl XXXVI Upset
FanIQ Blog —
If the Giants were to beat the Patriots it would rank as arguably the biggest upset in Super Bowl history. One of the games in that conversation would be New England taking down the 'Greatest Show on Turf' in Super Bowl XXXVI. That team, with a 2nd year quarterback drafted in the 6th round at the helm, was given very little chance to win. The St. Louis Rams led the NFL in passing, scoring and total yards and considered one of the best offenses in NFL history. ...
I'm on my knees people
Mile High Ramblings —
Christ Webber is back in Northern California. He hopes fans have forgiven his being a shithead last time around when his departure kind of signaled, or hastened, Golden State's decade-long crumminess. (San Francisco Chronicle) Mike Vaccaro recognizes that quarterbacks get a lot of attention, all the time, so his column is about giving Eli Manning attention . My favorite part comes about halfway through when he has eight heads on football's Mt. Rushmore and puts Kurt Warner alongside Jim McMahon as a one-hit wonder. (New York Post) A source says the Patriots taped the Rams' final walkthrough before Super Bowl Bunch of X's and V's and Stuff. No shit? Ope, how'd that ...
These Patriots Scandals Keep Getting Lamer [Peek-a-boo]
Deadspin —
... Well, I'm sure it's just a coincidence that we're now hearing about the time the New England Patriots might have taped their opponents' practice right before Super Bowl XXXVI. ...
Pats statement: Taping allegations "absolutely false"
Projo Pats Blog —
The New England Patriots have released a statement denying today's report that the team video taped the St. Louis Rams' final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI:
"The suggestion that the New England Patriots recorded the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002 is absolutely false. Any suggestion to the contrary is untrue."
The idea that the Patriots had taped St. Louis' walkthrough had been floated before; allegedly, then-team employee Matt Walsh stayed behind at the Superdome after the Patriots took their team photo on Feb. 2, 2002, and filmed the Rams walkthrough. He then boarded the media shuttle with other news reporters. ...
Does 'Spygate' go deeper?
Sports Scope —
PHOENIX -- The Spygate controversy is only getting bigger with just one day until Super Bowl XLII. The New England Patriots released a statement this evening denying a published report alleging they recorded the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI."The suggestion that the New England Patriots recorded the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002 is absolutely false. Any suggestion to the contrary is untrue." The Associated Press cited ...
Off-Field Fleeces: Patriots Tape Rams’ Walk-Through?
MLB FLEECE FACTOR: Providing MLB rumors and deciding who gets FLEECED. —
As our readers know, we are a site primarily dedicated to passing along baseball rumors, news, and we offer analysis in regards to a variety of baseball issues. On the eve of the Superbowl, however, I felt it appropriate to nominate the Patriots for “potentially” fleecing the Rams out of their Superbowl rings in Superbowl XXXVI. This all according to the Boston Herald, of course. Now, it should be noted, the Patriots have indeed released a statement claiming this information to be false and untrue. That being said, if it is true, it would add further debate in regards to the Patriots dynasty. This would be a non-issue, too, if there was not the ...
SPYGATE: THE SEQUEL
Epic Carnival —
by Sooze, Babes Love Baseball After spankin' new allegations Saturday made public by the Boston Herald (citing an anonymous source) that a member of the New England Patriots' video staff recorded the St. Louis Rams' last walkthrough prior to the 2002 Super Bowl -- you know, the one the Pats won despite heavy favoritism for a Rams victory -- we all may rest assured as the team has issued a formal denial. The anonymous source, who claimed to be close to the team that season, said that after the Patriots took a pre-game photo, a ninja-like member of their video department lurked in the shadows of the Superdome, hanging around long enough to ...
Are The Patriots Habitual Line-Steppers?
Mind Rite Sports -- Quality, diverse sports coverage —
Those Patriots have more skeletons in their closet than a Congressman, no? Super Bowl XLII picks coming tomorrow. Stay tuned.
I will be Drinking Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Some People's Kids —
In commemoration of the Patriots eventual victory on the field of battle. A month from now I will drink Rheingold beer when Arlen Specter strips the Patriots of their last couple of Superbowls. Pats win 31-28 when Adam Vinatieri Stephen Gostkowski kicks a last second field goal. Lawrence Maroney wins MVP, not by actually being chosen but by snatching it from Tom Brady’s hands during the post game ceremony and stiff-arming every mutha fucka that tries to take it back. U begul shitting Uself if U think he’s giving that thing back. He celebrates the victory with Kool-aid and ...
At the Precipice of Perfection
The Cheap Seats —
When the hype subsides and the Patriots and Giants take the field this afternoon for Super Bowl XLII, the only thing most of us outside of New England and New York are really going to have to root for is a close game. Unfortunately, I don't think we're going to get it.
Nothing much that we've spent the past 13 days discussing is going to matter once the two team line up across from each other and the foot meets pigskin. Not Brady's boot, not Plaxico's mouth, not Spygate and not the new allegations that the Patriots taped the Rams' final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI.
What does matter, in my opinion, is pretty simple: 1) Tom Brady is ...
Spygate Just Won't Go Away
About Football —
With memories of the Spygate scandal that cost the New England Patriots a first-round draft pick in 2008 and a hefty fine seemingly fading onto the back burner over the past few months, new accusations have once again moved the scandal to the forefront of public consciousness. And if it is proven there is anything to the latest round of reports, they threaten to taint everything the Pats have accomplished not only throughout a historic 2007 season, but from their first championship in Super Bowl XXXVI and everything in between. On Saturday, the Boston Herald reported that the Patriots secretly taped the St. Louis Rams' private walk-through before ...
Fear, uncertainty and hype…the hours before Super Bowl kickoff drag on
New England Patriots —
Fear, uncertainty and hype…the hours before Super Bowl kickoff drag on Welcome to a true American holiday. People decry the commercialization of Christmas. The Super Bowl, meanwhile, is unapologetically commercial–in fact, it’s a day in which we celebrate commercialism, in the form of the TV ad spots that will air up to 40 times during the main event. People decry the rank competitiveness of shopping around the holiday season. This day celebrates competitiveness, invites trash talk, recognizes that sometimes wanting to absolutely kill the other guy is what makes us stronger. I’ve always loved people who know who they are and don’t try to be anything else; similarly, I enjoy TV ...
Four Legs Good, Patriots LOSE
St. Louis Rams —
This just in, folks: The Patriots lost the Super Bowl.
I kid, I kid. If there’s anyone in this country that’s managed to miss the score of the game, they’re either living in a bomb shelter or in a coma.
Lost in the post-game interlude (remarkably similar to the tryptophan-induced siesta) is the new allegation that the Patriots may have committed another Spygate all the way back in 2001.
Before I go any farther, I want to make it clear that I’m a die-hard Rams fans, one of the most devoted among people I have ever met. Heck, I stuck with this team through a 3-win season, watching every game I could get on. So it should be noted that ...
KSK's Valentine to... Matt Walsh
Kissing Suzy Kolber —
We won't beat around the bush, we're crazy about you, Matt Walsh. After all, what's sexier than power? And right now we think you have the power to run Belicheat out of the league in shame and dishonor. And that's sexy, baby. Come to Rogg's office and sing like the magnificent canary that, deep down, you know you are. Tell him how Bill made you tape the Rams in New Orleans and how he cackled like a maniac when you forked over the discs. Tell him where he touched you while you reviewed the Rams futile preparations over braunschweiger and warm malt liquor. Tell him how he just laughed when begged him to stop. You can do it, big guy. We ...
Will Patriots Owner Bob Kraft Sue the Boston Herald Over Pre-Super Bowl Spygate Story?
FanHouse —
Filed under: Patriots, NFL Media Watch, BostonOn Saturday, February 2, the day before the Super Bowl, the Boston Herald ran a story by John Tomase headlined, "Source: Pats employee filmed Rams." As every football fan knows, that story set off a firestorm in the NFL world, with allegations about a Patriots employee taping the Rams' final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI. There's talk of lawsuits, Senate hearings and NFL sanctions, all emanating from that one Boston Herald story. But was the story accurate? In his Monday Morning Quarterback column, Peter King of Sports Illustrated suggests today ...
Pats confident Walsh meeting will end Spygate
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog —
Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando The Patriots released a statement this afternoon relating to news that former video assistant Matt Walsh will meet with commissioner Roger Goodell on May 13 regarding Spygate: The New England Patriots are pleased to learn that Matt Walsh is finally willing to come forward to meet with the NFL. We are eagerly anticipating his honest disclosures to Commissioner Goodell next month and the return of all the materials he took during his time of employment. We fully expect this meeting to conclude the league's investigation into a damaging and false allegation that was originally levied against the team on the day before this ...
When can we start ignoring Matt Walsh?
Goal-Line Stand —
Syndicate this site [image] Quick Hits: Guns, death and football (part 2) | Main When can we start ignoring Matt Walsh? Posted by Brad Gagnon on May 07, 2008 Matt Walsh just won’t go away, and he’s now proving that he has nothing to add to the Spygate situation. He has become a household name in the sports world, but it’s starting to seem as though that was his only goal. The New York Times reports that none of the eight tapes Walsh recently sent to the NFL contains footage of the St. Louis Rams’ walkthrough prior to the 2002 Super Bowl. What did the tapes show? • That the Patriots taped play-calling signals Wait. Didn’t we already know that? ...
Boston Herald Owes Its Readers an Explanation on Patriots Spygate Story
FanHouse —
Filed under: Patriots, NFL Media Watch, BostonLast night we noted the New York Times report saying former Patriots employee Matt Walsh had turned over eight tapes to the NFL, but not a tape of the Rams' final walk-through practice before the 2002 Super Bowl. Many NFL observers have interpreted the absence of a tape showing the Rams' walkthrough as a refutation of the Boston Herald's February 2 report headlined, "Source: Pats employee filmed Rams." That February 2 story was written by John Tomase, and today Tomase has a story following up on last night's New York Times report that includes this quote from Walsh's ...
Thoughts on Spygate, John Tomase, Future
Sports of Boston —
Now that Matt Walsh has said he will turn over eight stolen tapes to the NFL which show the Patriots filming the defensive signals of opposing coaches during the 2001 season, what is going to happen to Bill Belichick and the Pats? Here are some thoughts:
It seems the Pats have avoided the H-bomb which would have been a tape of the Rams walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI. Walsh’s lawyer said the former video assistant was not the source for JOHN TOMASE’S article just days before the super bowl (link is here but you can only read the first few lines because the Herald charges for archived items, smart move). As a ...
The Walsh tapes and what they mean for you
Shutdown Corner —
Matt
Walsh's collection of tapes appear to be nothing more than a big, fat,
"Yes, the Patriots did exactly what they had been punished for doing."
Chances are, unless you're a fan of one of the teams specifically featured on
the tapes, they mean absolutely nothing to you.
The Boston Herald goes
into a bit of detail about what exactly is on them:
The tapes Walsh provided show the Patriots recording the offensive and defensive signals of the Dolphins, Bills, Browns, Chargers and Steelers, with Pittsburgh taped during the 2002 AFC title game, the Times reported.
Tapes are edited with varying degrees of ...
Patriots fans do love their petitions
Shutdown Corner —
One
of the most painful things you can do on the Internet is read the comments on John
Tomase's blog at the Boston Herald (it used to be anyway, all comments
appear to be turned off now). Tomase was the guy who, prior to the Super Bowl, reported
that the Patriots had videotaped the Rams walkthrough prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.
Patriots fans, as you might imagine, didn't care for the report. And since
that day, Tomase hasn't been able to post anything without triggering an
avalanche of the most vicious, hateful, and mean-spirited comments the internet
has ever seen. If someone called for him to be fired, they'd have been one of
the more reasonable of the ...
Lingering "Spygate" should not simply go away
Stampede Blue —
Matt Walsh Photo: ESPN
Today, former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh will meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss his knowledge of how the Patriots cheated and violated league rules over a seven year period which saw them win three Super Bowls. ...
Patriots issue statement on Spygate
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog —
Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando The Patriots recently released the following statement following Matt Walsh's meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell regarding Spygate: "We want to address the allegation that the Patriots taped the Rams' walkthrough prior to Super Bowl XXXVI. For the past three-and-a-half months, we have been defending ourselves against assumptions made based on an unsubstantiated report rather than on facts or evidence. "Despite our adamant denials, the report ran on February 2, 2008, the day before Super Bowl XLII. That game was the second-most watched program in television history and it is unfortunate that today's ...
Months after Spygate was over, Spygate is over
Goal-Line Stand —
Syndicate this site [image] Report: Joe Horn has trade value | Main Months after Spygate was over, Spygate is over Posted by Brad Gagnon on May 13, 2008 Well, it turns out we were right about Matt Walsh all along . Walsh had nothing of significance to add in a three and a half hour meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell Tuesday morning. We’ve been saying all along Walsh was probably just looking for instant fame during the process, capitalizing on the fact he was close to the situation. Walsh again insisted he had no tape of the St. Louis Rams’ Super Bowl walkthrough, something he hadn’t spoken about until recently. It still ...
Spygate is Officially Over - for the New England Patriots
Pats Pulpit —
Source: nfl.com
That's right. The official governing body of professional football teams in the United States, the National Football League, has declared Spygate is no more:
Goodell said "the fundamental information that Matt provided was consistent with ...
Boston Herald Apologizes for Spygate Story
FanHouse —
Filed under: Patriots, NFL Media Watch, Boston, Breaking News, The WordThe Boston Herald has apologized for its article saying the New England Patriots videotaped the St. Louis Rams' final walk-through practice before the 2002 Super Bowl. The apology reads in full: ...
Kraft feels vindicated by Herald apology
ESPN.com - NFL Nation Blog —
Posted by ESPN.com's Mike Sando Patriots owner Robert Kraft says he feels vindicated by the Boston Herald's apology for its botched story about the Super Bowl XXXVI walk-through. "We do," Kraft told his CNBC interviewer. "I felt very good seeing this paper because we've worked very hard over the last decade and a half to establish a strong bond with our fans, where they could trust and believe in the integrity of the team. This story coming out the day before the Super Bowl, the biggest game in our history, going for a perfect season, was very damaging and put a cloud over us for the last three and a half months. I'm ...
Boston Herald Gets Wingo'd Into Apology, Readers Revolt [The Death Of Spygate]
Deadspin —
During yesterday's Spygate meet-and-greet with the press, Roger Goodell and Matt Walsh revealed everything and nothing as to how this whole misguided mess actually transpired. What we do know? According to Goodell, Patriots coach Bill Belichick continues to be full of shit about his misreading of the rules excuse, the Patriots won't be punished any more and Matt Walsh can safely return to relative anonymity of his tony golf course.
It was also revealed was that the Patriots did not tape the Rams walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI, even though the Boston Herald reported on February 2 that those tapes did exist. This story prompted yesterday's amusing ...
Richard Deitsch: Thank Sidney for NHL ratings surge
SI.com - Extra Mustard —
"I think we're going to have ourselves a pretty good Stanley Cup if it turns out to be Detroit and Pittsburgh," says Mark Messier , who knows something about the terrain. "It's the first time in a couple of years where the two best teams are meeting in the finals. "Detroit has a lot of experience with a tremendous amount of talent and a goaltender that's been there before. Experience certainly is not everything in playoff hockey but it does mean something. Whether the Penguins can overcome a team that's full of it remains to be seen." Messier can be seen on Versus for Games 1 and 2 of the Finals -- he's working as a studio analyst -- but don't expect the second coming of Don Cherry ...
