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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 2875800, member: 2350"]
There's nothing in there that I didn't already know, and there was also more than was ever revealed. Goodell was still Kraft's boy at the time, and he was in his debt for Kraft's efforts to have him hired commissioner. Goodell had scads of evidence destroyed for two reasons. First, it would have revealed Belichick and the Patriots were dirtier than what was then known; and second, with the destruction of so much critical evidence, it effectively forestalled the threatened upcoming Senate investigation. I recall reading that around the same time, stadium security staffs had on numerous occasions chased away 'alleged operatives' trying surreptitiously to gain access to teams' practice facilities. Who knows who they were, but if any were caught in the service of another team, it was all immediately buried.

The NFL swallowed the scandal as it was to prevent revealing a greater one: a.) that Super Bowls had been won by teams that had cheated; and many more teams other than just the Patriots were doing it. Finally, it might have cratered the league if an investigation revealed gambling interests had insider access to the knowledge.

Just IMHO [ATTACH=full]150658[/ATTACH]
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