I love Sen. Arlen Specter. Mainly because he's a thorn in the side of the NFL. Full Article at Baltimore Sun Blogs
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The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game.
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If there anything that irritates you from the coverage you get from the press?
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I think it was the best way to make sure the Patriots followed my instructions ... to make sure that big of information would not appear anywhere again. If it did, I'd know they didn't hand me all the information . . . [that] they didn't tell me the truth.
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I think what they did this year certainly was done within the NFL rules and on a level playing field ... I think their record is extraordinary; no team has ever gone 18-0 before and I think they should be congratulated for that.
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I know there is a lot of talk about, 'Somebody said this. Somebody said that. Somebody else is doing this. Some other town is doing that,' ... Whatever it is, this game will be decided by the team that performs the best on Sunday. That's the way it should be, and that's what it will come down to.
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The reason I destroyed the tapes is they were totally consistent with what the team told me.
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In one of the tapes, one of the coaches was waving at the camera, indicating that they understood that they were being taped ... Taking signals from opposing football teams or in other sports is done and it is done quite widely and teams prepare for that. There isn’t a team that doesn’t go into a game p...
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I don’t think it taints their accomplishments. The action that we took was swift and decisive and it was unprecedented. It sent a loud message to not only the Patriots, but every NFL team that you should follow the rules and you better follow the rules
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They may have collected it within the rules, but we couldn't determine that. So we felt that it should be destroyed
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The NFL has a very unique status in our society - they have an antitrust exemption ... Every other business has to abide by the antitrust laws. But the Congress gave [the NFL] a specific exception, and from that, they've been able to pool their resources, structure a league, structure a multimillion-dol...
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