New England head coach Bill Belichick's staff for several of the cheating years in question included our own coach Eric Mangini. The NFL clearly found Belichick did cheat but once they fined him they also worked to sweep the issue under the rug. But the public thank goodness won't let the issue disappear.
I've always felt that if the NFL were truly interested in defending the integrity of their game, considering that they believed that Belichick cheated, they should have stripped the Patroits of at least one Super Bowl title and suspended Belichick and possibly some of his coaching staff for life. Instead the NFL took what in retrospect was clearly a public relations driven action. It's now up to the American justice system to defend the integrity of the game.
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The NFL fined Belichick $500,000, and the Patriots were ordered to pay $250,000. Mayer wants ticket holders to get a triple refund for all eight games played between the Patriots and the Jets in Giants stadium from 2000 through 2007.
The Pats and the NFL, through their attorneys, have begged the court to toss the case. Their opinion?
"Frivolous." "Mockery of the judicial process." "The NFL respectfully submits that allowing this case to continue any longer would only waste more time, money and judicial resources," the lawyers said in court filings.
Even when Mayer and colleague Bruce Afran, both Princeton lawyers, twice missed filing deadlines - technically a reason to toss the case - the appeals court rejected pleas for a dismissal.
"We're like Lazarus. We won't go away," said Mayer.
Apparently someone on the court finds the legal issues intriguing.
