Tapes? What Tapes?

This NY Times story asks the amazingly unanswered question: Why did the NFL destroy the tapes provided by the Patriots as part of the spygate investigation? It’s a question TMQ’s Gregg Easterbrook has been raising since September, but that incredibly the national media hasn’t bothered to ask till now by the Times.

 

The Times reports thusly: “The tapes arrived sometime between Sept. 16, when Goodell said he had yet to receive them, and Sept. 20, when the N.F.L. announced all material from the investigation had been destroyed “to ensure a level playing field.” The league has not addressed the tapes since.

Two crisis-management experts used the same word — fishy — to describe the league’s handling of the situation, saying the destruction of the tapes raised questions about what they contained.”

 

And the Times also predicts something that I have been asserting since this scandal was first revealed. If the Pats make it to the Super Bowl, this incident will be getting a whole lot of scrutiny. “Spygate will be the biggest story if they win the Super Bowl,” says a crisis manager interviewed by the Times.