[renrawtruk]

I think it's clear that this is actually not about the Patriots or tarnishing the "golden team". This is about tarnishing the integrity of the league. So far, the NFL has been squeeky clean compared to baseball and the NBA. They punish players severly who do not walk the straight and narrow.

Goodall doesn't want to dig any deeper because if they find more dirt, it just means that the last 6 years of the NFL has been a farse. If the Pats are not legit, then the league is a joke. And anyone who's paycheck is loosely tied to the NFL, like the commentators on Fox, CBS, NBC, and ESPN (and especially the NFL channel), would be doing the entire league harm to make a big deal of this.

So everyone is tucking it under the rug, and Belichik just got his hand slapped, and Tom Brady will not have to stand before a judge, because this would be bad press for the 10 billion dollar jugernaut that is the NFL.

Goodall probably is extremely pissed that the Pats cheated, but his hands are tied, he has to help make this go away, while portraying that he's taking a firm stand.