Dana Pennett O'Neil | NFL blows whistle on backfields in motion

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, September, 2007

BILL BELICHICK had it all wrong. He didn't need a video camera to get a leg up on the competition.

He just needed the legs; two very long ones, apparently.

CBS' Charley Casserly reported over the weekend that league offices sent a memo to all 32 teams banning cheerleaders from warming up near opposing team's lockers or tunnels.

Apparently the players, who have exactly 16 chances a year to prove their worth, to win games, to try and get to the Super Bowl, were so distracted by the sight of pretty women they were losing their concentration.

Seriously?

"Hey,  you're  not a man," Shawn Andrews said. "I don't know what they're saying and I don't want to get in trouble with the guys, but I'm going to put it this way: I'm gonna look."

Here, then, is...