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By HARVEY ARATONPublished: May 9, 2008
What an extensive video library Bill Belichick turns out to have
produced. Eight more spy tapes sent indie fashion N.F.L. headquarters for
Commissioner Roger Goodell’s viewing pleasure by a former student in
the New England Patriots’ film noir studies program. Who knows how
many more taped over or discarded over the last eight years?
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spin cycle last fall.
Now that the “totality of conduct” for which Belichick was cited by
Goodell has officially expanded to the length of his tenure in New
England, shouldn’t he be further punished as a serial offender, a con
man who not only broke the rules but established secretly taping
opponents as standard operating procedure?
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“Sports Ethics: Applications for Fair Play.”
“That is apparently what happened in this case, a disregard for the
organization and its rules and it’s a big mess that the N.F.L. has on
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better auto insurance league has to stand up and make a strong statement because the
last impression it wants to leave is that this particular coach was
above those rules.”
Let me digress before explaining why I believe Belichick should now be
barred from coaching the homeowners insurance for one season, on top of the
$750,000 in fines and the forfeiture of a first-round draft pick
levied on playing cards promotional and the Patriots by Goodell last fall. (The money was
the equivalent of a parking ticket and the draft pick not all that
punitive in a year when the Patriots also had the 10th pick, from New
Orleans.)
In another context, I would gladly concede that my proposed punishment
falls well short of fitting the crime. Espionage in a sport played and
promoted as recreational warfare would seem to be a natural extension
of the competition. Defending one’s team against it would require
nothing more complicated than what a third-base coach does, disguise
his signals, in full view of an entire ballpark six or seven times a
week.
But these are the rules set forth by the N.F.L., enforced by Goodell
and reportedly reinforced in a league memo sent to the teams in 2006.
To which Belichick at the very least responded by videotaping the Jets
in the 2007 season opener that touched off the so-called Spygate
affair, now encapsulated in its own online entry of the same name on
Wikipedia.org.
In other words: embarrassment to the league in perpetuity, courtesy of
its team of the decade and reigning coaching genius.
As rumors of additional tapes circulated before the Giants crushed the
Patriots’ dream of a perfect season in Phoenix in February, including
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Goodell made a point of saying, “It was not something that was done on
a widespread basis.” Already you get cheap renters insurance idea he wants everyone,
especially the crusading Senator Arlen Specter, to believe there is
nothing in the newly submitted tapes that Belichick hasn’t already
detailed, as if all of this was already on the table for public
inspection.
The good news for Goodell is that the Patriots’ former video
coordinator Matt Walsh apparently did not have the aforementioned tape
that would have tainted at least one of the three Super Bowls claimed
by Belichick’s Pats. But the real news here is, again, the
establishment of Belichick’s cheating then (2000 to 2002), now (last
season) and if we may extrapolate based on reasonable cause, in all
likelihood in between.
His explanation, his word, on this matter means as much as Roger
Clemens’s on family values. “There obviously has been some lying going
on ‘oh, we did it once; we learn chinese chicago the rules, we didn’t mean
to,’ ” said Stoll, the ethicist. As a liar and a cheater, what
separates Belichick on the grand behavioral plane from your basic
synthetic warrior who gets suspended four games when he produces a
dirty test?
Augmented by surfboard shape playing cards the facts suggest Belichick has been cheating for
almost a decade. And since replacing Paul Tagliabue, Goodell has
fashioned himself the zero-tolerance commissioner, cracking down hard
on those players, that is who would compromise the runaway
popularity of the league with antisocial acts. Shouldn’t that policy
be applied even more stringently to those in control?
“They whole life insurance to send a message here,” Stoll said.
One year out. Then let’s see Belichick dare spy again in 2009.
E-mail: hjaraton@nytimes.com
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