Deflategate vs. Spygate

Why is it that Deflategate continues to garner so much media attention. Experiments with footballs, scientific explanations of the Ideal Gas Law, the bitterness the Patriots' organization feels at the NFL's "betrayal," Tom Brady's legal fight. New England fans can complain all they want about broken PSI gauges, etc. But nowhere have a I seen any good explanation as to why the Pats' equipment manager made a bathroom pit stop with the balls just before the game or the weird texts Brady sent the equipment guys after the investigation started. 

And yet, the Spygate incident just gets a passing mention in all of these stories without further elaboration. Why did Roger Goodell destroy all the videotapes? What was on them? His reason for destroying them made no sense. Were some of the games on those tapes the Super Bowl games? It's a curious lack of curiousity about not only what the Patriots did but what and why Goodell and the league did what it did in terms of the investigation and evidence.

Here's an easy way to resolve all this. Convene a public Senate or House hearing and get the principles to testify under oath. Problem solved. Oh right, Congress can't "waste its time" looking into an $11 billion/year industry that is the most popular in the land.