why does congress want to look into"spygate"?

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Originally Posted by skinsfan69

cause they have nothing better to do.

Wrong! It's a billon dollar industry that is suppose to be legit. Do you like paying $80 bucks a least per ticket to see something that is fake? This isn't wrestling...

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Originally Posted by He Hate Me

Wrong! It's a billon dollar industry that is suppose to be legit. Do you like paying $80 bucks a least per ticket to see something that is fake? This isn't wrestling...

Ok so they find out that the Pats did cheat. What can they do?

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Originally Posted by firstdown

Ok so they find out that the Pats did cheat. What can they do?

They can do a number of things... take away the super bowl trophy, take away more draft picks, financial repercussions... who knows, but I don't think that the league can have something that MLB is going through happen to them without a fall out from the fans... or atleast I hope some fal out from the fans.

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Originally Posted by He Hate Me

They can do a number of things... take away the super bowl trophy, take away more draft picks, financial repercussions... who knows, but I don't think that the league can have something that MLB is going through happen to them without a fall out from the fans... or atleast I hope some fal out from the fans.

Steriods are illegal but I'm not sure if breaking a rule of the NFL is considered illegale by law. My question was not what the NFL could do to the Pats but what congress could do to the pats. I don't think they broke the law only NFL rules which the NFL is responsable for not congress.

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Originally Posted by firstdown

Steriods are illegal but I'm not sure if breaking a rule of the NFL is considered illegale by law. My question was not what the NFL could do to the Pats but what congress could do to the pats. I don't think they broke the law only NFL rules which the NFL is responsable for not congress.

Congress cannot and will not do anything which directly affects the Patriots. Congress can, however, affect the entire NFL by attacking their exemption from antitrust laws. The antitrust exemption allows the NFL to negotiate television contracts on behalf of all teams, rather than forcing each team to do so individually. So, Congress can put pressure on Goodell to punish the Pats or face the loss of the antitrust exemption.

In any case, this is a dead issue barring new evidence of cheating. The NFL wants the matter to go away. The fans are, for the most part, bored with this issue. The Pats have been punished and that's that.