Suspend Belichick?
Not a good time for professional sports.
Use of performance enhancing drugs would be problem enough.
But this year, in rapid order, a cheating, point-shaving NBA referee, a dog-killing NFL quarterback, and now a thieving top coach of a top team, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.
The Patriots were found stealing, via video camera, the defensive signals of the New York Jets Sept. 9.
Say it isn’t so, Bill.
Sad to say, Bill didn’t deny it. He did accept responsibility and apologize.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell fined Belichick the maximum half-million dollars (he makes five or 10 times that) and fined the team $250,000 and loss of some important draft choices.
Many think Belichick got off way too easy, that he should have been suspended, as happens to players caught cheating by using drugs.
How long and how much have the Patriots used stolen signals? Did they come into play when the Patriots defeated the Eagles by three points in the 2005 Super Bowl?
“The cheaters win; the straight guys lose,” commented the business-minded Wall Street Journal in calling for a four-week suspension.
What are your thoughts on sports scandals, the Patriots’ perfidy and Belichick’s punishment?
posted by Joe Zelnik @ 1:02 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
He should have been fired. A lesson learned by the whole league, rather, any league.
Get this: Some NFL figures are complaining because the Jets turned in the Patriots for breaking league rules and video-taping Jets’ defensive signals.
They say Jets coach Eric Mangini broke “an unspoken code.”
Others say Mangini would have been disloyal to his team had he not reported the violation.
What do you think?
He should have been fired, and an investigation should have looked into what games were affected by these practices and the games should be forfeited. If we put up with this in sports, it's no wonder we do in other more critical areas -- business, government. How much longer will we tolerate this stuff?
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