New 610 Post - The Patriots Legacy After Spygate and Recent Super Bowl Loss

Super Bowl XLVI is in the can and there are two ways you can look at the result.  With the Giants winning 21-17, you can look at this as Eli Manning cementing his legacy or as Tom Brady and Bill Belichick weakening their own.

In 2007 it came out that the Patriots coaching staff had acquired illegal tapes of the opposing teams signals.  These were turned over to the NFL, destroyed, and the Patriots and Bill Belichick were fined $500,000 each as well as stripped of their first round draft pick.  A pretty high price, especially considering it wasn’t known exactly what was on the tapes.  It then became an issue of whether or not their legacy is legitimate.
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