Paul Domowitch | Goodell: Not out to erase Patriots episode

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, October, 2007 | by Paul Domowitch

PROBABLY BECAUSE he's not a lawyer, NFL commissioner  Roger Goodell  has acted with amazing swiftness in addressing many of the league's issues during his first year-and-change as its czar.

But a lot of people in the league felt he acted a little too swiftly in dealing with the whole  Bill Belichick  Spygate situation last month.

Goodell wasted little time in meting out punishment to Belichick and the Patriots - fines, forfeiture of a first-round draft pick next year, but no suspension - and wasted even less time taking a match to all of the tapes and other materials he asked the Patriots to give him regarding their covert videotaping activities under Mr. Hoody.

Almost like there was something else there that he didn't want us to see. Almost like he wanted this...

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