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Ramgator
If nothing to it then why was it destroyed
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.
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Ramgator
Why was Martz approached by Goodell to help make it go away??
Martz.
Martz didn't help it "go away." It has never gone away. What Martz did was help the league prevent a Senate hearing, something Martz agreed with---he thought a senate hearing would be a big stupid messy business. So Martz too was into "protecting the brand" from senate interference. And Martz is on record as saying that the Rams lost because of the 3 turnovers anyway.
Again. The thing didn't go away. It still exists as a topic. Spags speaking up is a testimony to that. What went away was a senate hearing on it.
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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2018 05:21AM by zn.
