Boston Herald to Pats: Our Bad
The Boston Herald is surely drowning in hate mail right now after it retracted a Feb. 2 article accusing the New England Patriots of videotaping the St. Louis Rams’ Super Bowl XXXVI walkthrough.
It turns out no such tape exists. Um, oopsie? The Herald now admits they didn’t the have the tape, see the tape or talk to anyone who had. Which astute readers probably figured out after hearing the tape didn’t exist to begin with. There are nearly 500 comments attached to the online version of their retraction and as you might imagine, they’re almost universally negative.
To make things even worse, the Herald published the controversial story the day before the Super Bowl. Doh! Not everyone is letting the Pats off the hook for Spygate so easily though. Sen. Arlen Specter is calling for a George Mitchell-style investigation of the whole videotaping scandal.
So it’s not that the Patriots didn’t cheat, or even that they didn’t cheat at that Super Bowl. Right now it’s just that nobody can prove they cheated at that Super Bowl.
So to wrap up, Pats and Coach Bill Belichick are still not in the clear and the Boston Herald screwed up royally. In tomorrow’s edition, a tasty recipe for crow.
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