[RamOfDenmark]

I can't say I'm surprised. This spying program the Patriots have been employing has clearly been going on for some time. This is what I expected out of the Patriots, doing everything within and beyond the rules to win.

What disappoints me as a football fan is the way the league has reacted. They've now promptly punished the Patriots by taking away 1 draft pick and then destroyed the tapes. The only prudent and honest thing to do in terms of fairness and sportsmanship would be to have kept the tapes and launched a full investigation into this and find out exactly how long it has been going on and exactly what games were affected. Only then should they be punished, we need to know exactly what they have done and for how long first.

Seriously does anyone buy into the claims that the Jets game was the first and only time they did it? Or that Belicheck and the rest of the staff did not know? That's completely ridiculous. What benefit would it be to a video guy to personally illegally monitor other teams - if the coaches haven't signed off on using the tapes it's worthless and pointless for him to do.

The NFL does not want its reputation tarnished so they closed off this case as fast as possible instead of investigating properly what happened. The NFL just wants this case to die right now, not neccessarily because they favor the Patriots but just to avoid the negative press they would get.

I hope the media and the other teams keep asking questions - that's the only way any kind of proper investigation by the league will get started. But I'm not holding my breath...