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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 3864917" data-attributes="member: 5468">Thank you for responding.&nbsp; To draw together this line of discussion, here are:Okay.&nbsp; I read both of those links.&nbsp; I could not find in either of them the specific, explicit endorsement of :While I did find:&nbsp;as a statement that the Patriots cheating, (sorry, &quot;misunderstanding&quot; a pretty explicit rule) did not change the result of the Jets game, I could not find Goodell saying that the Patriots have never done that in any other game.Roger Goodell did not say that there was evidence that the Patriots had done it in other games, but this absence is not an endorsement that the Pats never did anything.&nbsp; If one wished to say that after other accusations of doing the same thing, the Patriots decided to actually try it for one game and got caught, then there is no evidence to prove one way or the other.Yes, I realize that it is impossible to prove a negative, so I am not saying that the Patriots being caught when they were constitutes *proof* that they have done this at other times, any more than I have seen the commisioner say that the Patriots never did this before.At this point, the incident becomes part of the experience by which we individually come to individual opinions as to the, well forget sportsmanship, basic integrity of Bill Belicheck and the Patriots organization.I don't think that the way that Belicheck responded to getting caught did him any favors.&nbsp; &nbsp; Harry</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Harry, post: 3864917, member: 5468"] Thank you for responding. To draw together this line of discussion, here are: Okay. I read both of those links. I could not find in either of them the specific, explicit endorsement of : While I did find: as a statement that the Patriots cheating, (sorry, "misunderstanding" a pretty explicit rule) did not change the result of the Jets game, I could not find Goodell saying that the Patriots have never done that in any other game. Roger Goodell did not say that there was evidence that the Patriots had done it in other games, but this absence is not an endorsement that the Pats never did anything. If one wished to say that after other accusations of doing the same thing, the Patriots decided to actually try it for one game and got caught, then there is no evidence to prove one way or the other. Yes, I realize that it is impossible to prove a negative, so I am not saying that the Patriots being caught when they were constitutes *proof* that they have done this at other times, any more than I have seen the commisioner say that the Patriots never did this before. At this point, the incident becomes part of the experience by which we individually come to individual opinions as to the, well forget sportsmanship, basic integrity of Bill Belicheck and the Patriots organization. I don't think that the way that Belicheck responded to getting caught did him any favors. Harry [/QUOTE]

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