{"id":17,"date":"2007-09-11T20:03:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T03:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriknovales.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/11\/the-new-england-patriot-video-library\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T03:03:36","slug":"the-new-england-patriot-video-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"The New England Patriot Video Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sources: Goodell determines Pats broke rules by taping Jets’ signals<\/a><\/p>\n

This is an interesting story to me, for a couple of different reasons. First of all, the Patriots have been a very<\/strong> successful franchise over the last few years, with three Super Bowl wins<\/a> in the last six seasons setting themselves up to be enshrined as the “Dynasty of the Aughts.” It is particularly difficult for teams to dominate over a long period of time in football, because of free agency, injury, and the fact that every<\/em> playoff game is “win or go home” — games are often won or lost on a single play. These allegations, even if untrue, have already tarnished their accomplishments with the taint of illegitimacy.<\/p>\n

Second, if the description of the Patriots’ espionage in the article is to be believed, they went about it in an incredibly<\/strong> amateurish fashion — I don’t understand how they could think that an assistant, standing on the sidelines with a video camera<\/strong>, would not be caught. I guess I gave the NFL more credit than they deserved in the subterfuge department — baseball has a rich<\/a> history<\/a> of elaborate sign-stealing schemes, all of which were probably more effective than this clumsy bit of espionage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources: Goodell determines Pats broke rules by taping Jets’ signals This is an interesting story to me, for a couple of different reasons. First of all, the Patriots have been a very successful franchise over the last few years, with three Super Bowl wins in the last six seasons setting themselves up to be enshrined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}