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Originally Posted by StatenEye 535i
You do make very good points but I would day in response.
Red;
Firstly, spygate was lied about, they never were summoned to court and evidence was destroyed by the NFL. As for the charges; I would think defrauding the public should constitute criminal charges. Viewers are legally betting, paying for tickets and watching the advertisements of an event which is thought to be and is represented by the NFL as fair. Blatantly cheating to manipulate the outcome of a public events which gross billion's of $revenue per annum, should constitute fraud. Criminal prosecution was used in the past on athletes who have altered their performance and as a result the outcome of games. Non sports example; If Coca-cola were to represent their cola product as cocaine free to gain the trust and money of users and an employee began to infuse cocaine into the mixture, would their be grounds for criminal action against said employee and corporation by the end users? I would think so.
Blue;
I agree, the basis for that statement was purely circumstantial.
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What does spygate have to do with ballgate? Ballgate is the only thing I was writing about in my posts. (I didn't realize by "criminal" you meant spygate. I thought you were referring to ballgate.)
Spygate occurred some four years prior to ballgate. I don't have any opinion re: spygate because I don't know any more about it beyond roughly when it occurred. I don't actually know what events that term describes.
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I didn't until two days ago even know of spygate re: football. When I first saw the term, I thought it might have had something to do with Valerie Plame. That I had no clue of spygate's meaning regarding NFL football and the Patriots is one indicator of just how little interest I have in professional football when the Redskins aren't contenders and/or involved.
I only learned of deflategate because I was in D.C. the day the NFL announced its penalties for the Patriots and the story about it came onto the news radio station I had on in the car. But for that, the whole matter of deflategate would have never made it onto my radar, so to speak.
All the best.