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stlramz
What would be the reason for that? Logically, what would be the reason you destroy a tape other than there is something on there you DONT want others to see.
If they showed the tape and it showed nothing or at least nothing significant, it would be easier to swallow.
I mean even careful, diplomatic Kurt Warner questions the destruction of the tape.
See once you know the facts on this, the whole "but they destroyed the tapes" mantra tends to disappear.
1. Because their very existence as tapes violated league rules.
2. The Patz argued that the league could not take the tapes since the tapes had legal things on them which means the Patz owned the tapes. The league response was fine, we'll just destroy them.
3. The tapes contained stolen signals and so could not be allowed to exist since they could be used, and once the league knew that and had its hands on them, it could not allow them to exist, or it would be party to their use. The league's power to destroy them came from point #1---the very existence of such tapes violated league rules.
If you dont know these details you really don't know the story.
And again, this is crucial---IT IS NOT AGAINST LEAGUE RULES TO STEAL SIGNALS OR TO USE STOLEN SIGNALS. The league considers that unenforceable so that security is up to each individual team.
THEREFORE the tapes could not contain anything else that violated league rules.
The existing rule the Patz DID violate was to tape signals. They were busted and punished for that.
So unless you can name another rule the Patz could have (hypothetically) violated, then this whole "destroyed evidence" mantra is just based on not understanding the situation. And it has to be a real rule the NFL has on record. Not some made up idea.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2018 07:44AM by zn.
