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Was the NFL right to penalize the New England Patriots for filming Jets' coaches?

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No		21%	70 votes	Total: 328 votes
Yes		79%	258 votes	Total: 328 votes

No

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by Joyce Priddy

The NFL has no right to penalize the New England Patriots for filming Jets' coaches. Come on people this is a game of football. Isn't part of life and strategies being able to...read more
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by Michael Daly

It may be the longest and most maddening controversy in pro sports. Videogate, Spygate, call it what you will, it is a controversy that refuses to go away because a lot of peop...read more
3 of 9
by Ted Sherman

My personal opinion is that the fine is unfair. However, if football league rules require it, no opinion on these pages can keep the Patriots from paying that half-million bucks...read more
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by Richard Martens

First of let me say that in this little opinion article, you are going to be getting exactly that, my opinion. I am going to spit in the face of convention and not bother backi...read more
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by Steven Gadberry

As far as I know, coaches have been studying tapes of games for a long time. Granted, those tapes are usually showing the team on the field, but I can't believe that the coaches...read more
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by Dorothy Marie Kucera

This debate must start with one question: was there anything in the NFL rule that specifically stated that the penalty would be directed towards the team and the coach? Or is i...read more
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by Shawn Lahey

Was the NFL right in penalizing Coach Belichick? Yes. Was the penalty to the team correct? No. Although I'm a huge Patriots fan, and have been all my life, I'm still taking a tr...read more
8 of 9
by Kevin Zarbock

No! Did Tom Brady screw up? Did Rodney Harrison screw up? Did Kevin Faulk Screw up? Come to think of it did the Patriots screw up? No, No, and NO! The fact off the matter is th...read more
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by Adam Goodkind

"Blue 44! Blue 42! Set! Set! Hike!" We all know communication is essential to any football play. This includes communication from the booth to the coach, from the coach to th...read more

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Yes

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by Natalie Faulk

For at least the second time in two seasons, the New England Patriots have been accused of high-tech cheating. The first incident was reported in Green Bay after a Patriots ...read more
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by Richard Bramante

I am a diehard New England Patriots Fan. Ever since the old American Football League started in 1960 with the Boston Patriots I have followed the team closely. It was my team ...read more
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by Michael Podlesny

Of course they were. The Patriots were cheating as per the outlines of the rules set forth by the NFL. The NFL rules clearly state that you are not allowed to use any video ta...read more
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by Jeffrey Sammerson

Was the NFL Right to penalize the patriots? Is it ever right to cheat In any game? Are the casinos in Vegas right to throw out card counters? The answer to all three questions i...read more
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by Jeffery Cooke

I believe that the NFL did the right thing in penalizing the Patriots. The real question should be was the penalty fair compared to other problems in the NFL. That is not to t...read more
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by J. M. Van Horn

Without a doubt, the NFL was right in penalizing the New England Patriots and their coach, Bill Belichik, for videotaping the Jet's coaches during the opening game of the 2007 s...read more
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by T. M. Beeker

Okay, we all know cheating is wrong. However, let's face facts when that kind of money and occupational survival is involved it becomes part of the tools one uses to get by. ...read more
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by Wallace Greer

The NFL Commissioner was correct in punishing the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick for their uncouth behavior in videotaping the signals of the New York Jets. Coach Bill ...read more
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by Claxton Graham

Not only should the New England Patriots have been penalized for violating the NFL's videotaping rule, they should have been penalized more heavily than they were. A half a mil...read more
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by Leonard Sutton

There's an adage in sports that If you're not cheating you're not trying'. There's another that states It's only cheating if you get caught'. The New England Patriots got cau...read more
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by Lao Ke

Cheating again, but why are we so shocked? When the pot is $60.0 Billion or more, the incentive to win, or better still, win at all costs, seems to justify the means, any means...read more
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by The Travel Bugg

Professional Sports are going through a time when they are getting a lot of bad publicity, with the Micheal Vick incident, Barry Bonds taking steroids and the NBA official accus...read more
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by Kate McGee

Let me state right off the bat, I am a HUGE New England Patriots fan. Have been for forever. However this little episode has left me feeling a bit angry and bitter. I expected ...read more
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by Jerry Curtis

The New England Patriots National Football team has been a top performing franchise for years. Perennial leaders in their division and Super Bowl contenders, they have set high ...read more
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by Ben Bower

I couldn't care less about Bill Bellichick. He is an arrogant coach who thinks that winning Super Bowl is his life. He has 3 rings, granted, but when you lose you need to believ...read more
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by MJ Suttor

The NFL was right to penalize the New England patriots for filming the Jets' coaches. I'm sure New England was not the first team to be dishonest in their attempts to win a f...read more
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by Tina Hartley

Bill Belichick is a highly respected head coach. He is the only head coach to take his team to three Super Bowl victories in a four year span. He has more than three decades of ...read more
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by Bruce Bostwick

When you break the rules, do you get punished? That is the question that should be answered truthfully. Does a player get punished when they break the rules in a sport? Gener...read more
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by Christina Scott

Fair Weather Fan? In watching this past Sunday's game against the Chargers. It seemed obvious that the New England fans were not all that upset by the recent developments in ...read more
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by Matt Strzelecki

The NFL had every right to penalize a team that broke the conduct rules of the NFL, not to mention moral rules for professional sports. However, do they deserve the amount of h...read more

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