DannyB

The name has always been absolutely absurd and I remember thinking that freaking DECADES ago before it became a mainstream flashpoint issue. It's just always seemed insane to me. Do the decent thing and change the damn name.

That's fair. It's also worth noting that they actually might've gotten off easy for Spygate, and the NFL might've done them a solid with how they handled it.

So Bill was stupid for doing it and risk getting in trouble for it then, is what you're saying?

Yes, filming from an area that was prohibited. That's what I said.

Yes. I don't know if there's like, an official record, but the word around the league was that it was pretty well known, and thus why the league sent them a memo saying "uh, please stop".

In the interest of precision and clarity: The Patriots weren't popped specifically for filming the other team's sideline. That in and of itself is not illegal. The rule they broke was WHERE the camera operator was as they filmed the opponent's sideline. An infraction that teams consistently noticed over the years, complained to the league office, and the league office warned them over and over to stop. It may be that JJ wasn't filming from the prohibited areas.

I'm not positive that's true, but it's worth investigating. If it turns out that this is true, then change my vote from "YES" to "NO" on Fitzgerald's Hall of Fame candidacy.

And that's a shame, because 85 is a fantastic number! Chad Johnson, Greg Jennings, Drew Hill, Derrick Mason. And that's not counting TEs. Great number.

I hate the Cowboys but I do appreciate their commitment to fielding great receivers wearing 88. That's a damn fine jersey number.

But that's my point. It's been a shift in that direction. A bad, bad shift. Bring back the 80s!

Whoa, let's not get crazy here

I just realized something. I think the most unfortunate and distressing change in the league over the past 20 years is the shift from elite WRs wearing jersey numbers in 80s, as god intended, to wearing numbers in the teens, an abomination against nature.

And there are the Packers. Sitting in the middle of everything, aggressively mediocre. Not special. Not great. Not bad. Just.........*wet shart noise*

Gambling on sports that you are playing, coaching, or have some sort of hand in the outcome of, is THE ultimate mortal sin in the sporting world. Nothing else touches it. Nothing else can so decisively annihilate the integrity of a sport than the possibility that one of the teams, or somebody on one of the teams, may deliberately trying to lose games. The house of cards would come crumbling down fast.

Please, 'splain.