Specter: Patriots Cheated, Yada Yada

Having solved all of Pennsylvania's other problems, old dude political guy Arlen Specter, in the days prior to the Super Bowl, decided to bring up the fact that the Patriots cheated in the past.  Like anybody doesn't already know this.  Anyway, he says they taped the Rams practice before the Super Bowl and now he's trying to drag the Eagles Super Bowl into it.

At this point, I'd just like the guy to go away and hide in Harrisburg or Washington or wherever he earns his lunch money.  Why bring all this up now?  Well that's where it gets interesting.  The Daily News' Will Bunch has a great post about how, not surprisingly, it may all have to do with money.  Big money, Comcastic money!  Millions!

What Bunch tries to show is that Specter has quite a few ties to Comcast who is still battling with the NFL Network over a few dollars or two.  It's worth a read.

>>Arlen's tangled Comcastic mess: It's worse than you think [Attytood]

Comments

[Paul D]

Reading stuff like this makes me angry. Am I the only Eagles fan that cares about getting to the bottom of this?

Our team may have been legitimately CHEATED out of winning a SUPER BOWL!! HELLO!?!? We don't exactly get that many chances to win the Super Bowl which we've never won. I for one want to know what happened. Instead everyone else is brainwashed by talk radio and nonsense - they search for every possible ulterior motive imaginable to protect the team that may have cheated us from our prize.

AAAARRGGGGGGHHHHH

[Tartan69]

I generally like Specter, and I *do* think the Pats have cheated in the past. However, much like the steroids-in-baseball stuff, I FUCKING HATE that my tax dollars are being wasted by these self-serving politicians to prod into areas where they don't belong. Please solve REAL problems like war and famine and poverty, and forget about worrying over the problems in professional sports.

[Paul D]

Tartan your Eskin statement about this operates on a few assumptions - the main assumption being that by not focusing on ethics in sports the Politician(s) would be helping the nation otherwise.

This ignores the fact that the vast majority of legislation and activity over the past decade has been profoundly corrupt and damaging to our country.

I'd rather a Senator was focused on whether the Eagles (and others) were cheated out of the biggest game in the nation instead of adding amendments that widen the disparity between rich and poor, launch a morally repugnant war or collude with lobbyists.