Bostonherald.com - One night before the Patriots[ team stats] face the Giants in Super Bowl XLII, new allegations have emerged about a Patriots employee taping the Rams’ final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI. According to a source, a member of the team’s video department filmed the Rams’ final walkthrough before that 2002 game. The next day, the Patriots upset St. Louis, 20-17, on a last-second field goal by Adam Vinatieri for their first championship. A walkthrough involves practicing plays at reduced speed without contact or pads. It is common for teams to film their own walkthroughs and practices. According to a source close to the team during the 2001 season, here’s what happened. On Feb. 2, 2002, one day before the Patriots’ Super Bowl game against heavily favored St. Louis in New Orleans, the Patriots visited the Superdome for their final walkthrough. After completing the walkthrough, they had their team picture taken and the Rams then took the field. According to the source, a member of the team’s video staff stayed behind after attending the team’s walkthrough and filmed St. Louis’ walkthrough. At no point was he asked to identify himself or produce a press pass, the source said. The cameraman rode the media shuttle back to the hotel with news photographers when the Rams walkthrough was completed, the source said. It’s not known what the cameraman did with the tape from there. It’s also not known if he made the recording on his own initiative or if he was instructed to make the recording by someone with the Patriots or anyone else.

This is literally becoming surreal.    We have an unnamed source saying the Pats taped the Rams fluff practice?    Hmm, who could this unnamed source be?  Who could it be, who could it be?   Can I take a wild guess and say maybe Matt Walsh?   Yeah that same scum bag who is begging to get his five minutes of fame?   It seems right up his alley to make a statement like this, but not have the balls to put his name on the quote.   It’s Coward 101.     Shame on John Tomase for even reporting this gossip.  I think he should be fired for this.  More importantly who the fuck cares if the Pats taped the Rams fluff practice?   Only somebody who hates the Patriots (insert Tom Jackson, Steve Young, Merrill Hodge, the entire country etc) or somebody who has never played football in their entire life (John Tomase) would ever try to insinuate that taping a fluff practice would have any impact on anything.  That’s like saying taping the opponents batting practice in baseball helps you win.    It’s totally and utterly ridiculous.  Not to mention that everybody knew both teams were in the building during this final walk through.  I mean the entire Patriot team was getting their picture taken while the Rams were on the field.  So I’m pretty sure the Rams weren’t giving away any trade secrets during an open practice.  Plus the Rams did virtually the same thing for every game the entire season so who needs to film a fluff practice to figure out what they’re doing?   Do people see how nuts this is?   The only thing I can equate it to is why other countries hate the United States of America.  It’s jealously plain and simple.  They hate us because they want to be us.    So just like how Al Qaeda makes up lies and spreads propaganda about the US, the rest of the league and country make up lies about the Patriots.    Honestly it’s the lowest form of pond scum that there is.  

The rest of the country and the National Media should be embracing the Patriots.   They stand for everything that is right in sports.    They play at a team.  They sacrifice for each other.  They are smarter than everybody else.  They care about winning more than individual accomplishments.    And they are on the verge of putting together the greatest season in the history of sports.  Is should be a cause for celebration from sea to shining sea.   Some would even say if the Pats win tomorrow it should instantly become a National Holiday.   That’s what Arlen Specter should be working on.   It could be a day when grandfathers can tell their grandkids about the day they saw the greatest team from the greatest franchise complete the greatest season in the history of the world.   Yet somehow the rest of the country doesn’t seem to appreciate this fact. Instead they spend their time spewing venom about how much we suck and cheat and blah, blah, blah.  My advice would to all the rest of the country would be don’t hate but emulate.  Ask us Bostonians for tips on how we dominate the world and maybe we’ll one day your city can be a 10^th of as good as we are.   But if you continue to just to make excuses as to why we kick your ass in everything from baseball to basketball to football you’ll continue to live in squalor just like the terrorists.  

PS – Maybe my favorite part of Spygate is how ex coaches who have won Superbowls like Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells have both said they filmed other teams and that there is NOTHING to this entire fiasco.  Yet the media totally ignores them whenever they say this.    So basically if the Pats Superbowls are tainted then every Superbowl since the advent of videotape is also tainted.