"Red Flags All Over the Field"

Arlen Specter’s sit down with NFL Commish Roger Goodell continues to break new ground in the mushrooming Spygate scandal. A pity the sports pages of the major city dailies (including those with NFL teams) couldn’t have similarly roused themselves to look more thoroughly into Spygate months ago. If they had, they would have found out what Specter has this week by merely asking. To wit:

 

·         The NFL investigation found wrongdoing by Belichick as far back as 2002.

·         The league is now talking with former New England players (when will they find the time to query Tom Brady?) How about touching base with Drew Bledsoe?

·         And the league, rather than interviewing potential key witness and former Patriot videographer Matt Walsh, is investigating him instead. How’s that for intimidation of a witness?

·         Goodell presumes that Belichick has been illegally taping teams as far back as his days leading the Browns.

·         The Steelers don’t blame any taping for their choking dog 24-17 loss to the visiting underdog Patriots in the 2002 AFC championship.

 

Specter has done a great service to sports fans for getting Goodell to be more forthright and honest about his cover-up (the obfuscation, tape destruction, and Inspector Closeau-like “investigation”) of the Patriots’ illegal activities.