MMAsterkillah
03-10-2008, 07:20 PM
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2008/03/09/to_some_patriots_accuser_matt_walsh_is_calculating _bitter/?page=1
"He sounded like a loose cannon," said the coworker, who asked not to be identified to avoid entangling his new employer in the controversy. "He was very bitter about how things ended with the Patriots and he seemed like he was keen on using whatever he had to get back at them by going public and really trying to damage the team."
A league source said NFL investigators found two practical reasons why the Patriots could not have used their video equipment to tape the Rams the day before the Super Bowl. First, the team's video crew did not take any battery packs to the Superdome because they planned only to set up the equipment, not to use it. Second, the league confirmed there was no electrical power available at the camera positions in the stadium.
In addition, an NFL investigator interviewed a Patriots employee who left the Superdome that day with Walsh and quoted Walsh as saying, "We should have taped that," according to a person familiar with the league's inquiry."
More on Walsh, Specter's supposed Golden Boy:
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2008/03/09/to_some_patriots_accuser_matt_walsh_is_calculating _bitter/?page=full
"In developing a portrait of Walsh, a personable sports lover now working as an assistant golf pro in Hawaii, the Globe also learned that he has exaggerated or misrepresented elements of his online biography, and that he was dismissed from the Springfield College golf team in 1995 after he played a dangerous prank on a woman.
The Patriots, through an NFL lawyer, have made clear to Walsh that they consider any tapes he might possess possible stolen property and would want the tapes returned.
The team, for example, is missing video of Adam Vinatieri kicking the winning field goal in the 2002 Super Bowl. The tape was recorded by an end zone camera Walsh operated during the game and also could have been used to record the Rams' defensive signals.
The NFL has informed Walsh's lawyer it will not pursue charges against Walsh if he turns over any property, gives the league any other evidence, and speaks truthfully about his tenure with the team. He also is a central figure in inquiries by Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, and a class-action suit filed in New Orleans against the Patriots and Belichick.
Amid the saga, Walsh's PGA membership was suspended in December because he failed to meet expected progress with his educational courses, according to a PGA official."
"After high school, Walsh worked a summer as a cart boy at his neighborhood course, Twin Hills Country Club, before he enrolled at Springfield College. He played one year of intercollegiate golf, establishing himself as the fourth best player on the team, before a disturbing incident in his dorm room in 1995.
According to the alleged victim, a woman who was dating Walsh's roommate, Walsh was so miffed that she and his roommate might spend time on his bed while he was away that he booby-trapped his sheets with a stainless steel, six-pronged blender blade.
The woman, whose account was corroborated by Walsh's former roommate, said she vividly recalls being startled and slightly injured when she sat on the knife-sharp object. She said the episode forever changed her view of Walsh, whom she had known since high school and Walsh's roommate had considered his best friend since childhood.
The campus police and dean of students were alerted, and though no charges were filed, Walsh soon was dismissed from the golf team.
"It was a very malicious act," the woman said. "The fact that someone you considered a friend would do something that could possibly harm you like that is very creepy."
KEEP in MIND:
1. We have admitted to taping defensive signals in the past for future use.
2. Shawne Merriman (a Roider) accused the Seahawks of pumping noise into the stadium.
3. Former Coach Jimmy Johnson has admitted stealing defensive signals, and said it was part of the game.
4. Everyone in the stadium can visually watch defensive signals and mark down or tape them from elsewhere.
5. The Patriots never hid anything, and Matt Walsh doesn't even have a confidentiality agreement.
6. There is no Rams "walk-through" tape IMO, and if there is, this crazy fuck worked alone.
7. Even if he reaches an agreement with the NFL, he will get PWNT in legal courts for stealing these tapes, AND he was previously caught recording Scott Pioli with audio tapes.
8. The Dolphins stole OUR offensive calls and audible via audio recordings a year ago, and nobody seems to care.
Another thing that gives me some sense of assurance:
"Goodell immediately deployed investigators, their focus largely on Walsh. The commissioner previously had warned the Patriots that if Belichick or team officials lied about the extent of their videotaping practices when they were initially questioned, he would suspend Belichick for a year and impose similarly severe penalties on the team."
I know it is easy to hate on the LOVABLE Patriots, and follow ESPN and New York Times SEXY little story, but the truth is out there. I wish somebody would actually try to find it.
They media is too busy becoming tabloid journalists, and never actually teaching people what the games are all about. I can rarely sit down and discuss the intricacies of the cover two, 3-4 defenses, or pulling the guard for the swing route to your halfback with even the most legit football fans... That is because ESPN is too busy feeding you shit like "Who's doing better, Kobe or Lebron?". I dream of a network where sports are discussed intelligently. I wish it were more than this. I want to see a place where they aren't trying to sell sports, they are trying to teach them and seek the truth...
For more on this type of thing, and other up to date NFL news, I have to agree with Mike Florio on many issues:
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm
"He sounded like a loose cannon," said the coworker, who asked not to be identified to avoid entangling his new employer in the controversy. "He was very bitter about how things ended with the Patriots and he seemed like he was keen on using whatever he had to get back at them by going public and really trying to damage the team."
A league source said NFL investigators found two practical reasons why the Patriots could not have used their video equipment to tape the Rams the day before the Super Bowl. First, the team's video crew did not take any battery packs to the Superdome because they planned only to set up the equipment, not to use it. Second, the league confirmed there was no electrical power available at the camera positions in the stadium.
In addition, an NFL investigator interviewed a Patriots employee who left the Superdome that day with Walsh and quoted Walsh as saying, "We should have taped that," according to a person familiar with the league's inquiry."
More on Walsh, Specter's supposed Golden Boy:
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2008/03/09/to_some_patriots_accuser_matt_walsh_is_calculating _bitter/?page=full
"In developing a portrait of Walsh, a personable sports lover now working as an assistant golf pro in Hawaii, the Globe also learned that he has exaggerated or misrepresented elements of his online biography, and that he was dismissed from the Springfield College golf team in 1995 after he played a dangerous prank on a woman.
The Patriots, through an NFL lawyer, have made clear to Walsh that they consider any tapes he might possess possible stolen property and would want the tapes returned.
The team, for example, is missing video of Adam Vinatieri kicking the winning field goal in the 2002 Super Bowl. The tape was recorded by an end zone camera Walsh operated during the game and also could have been used to record the Rams' defensive signals.
The NFL has informed Walsh's lawyer it will not pursue charges against Walsh if he turns over any property, gives the league any other evidence, and speaks truthfully about his tenure with the team. He also is a central figure in inquiries by Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, and a class-action suit filed in New Orleans against the Patriots and Belichick.
Amid the saga, Walsh's PGA membership was suspended in December because he failed to meet expected progress with his educational courses, according to a PGA official."
"After high school, Walsh worked a summer as a cart boy at his neighborhood course, Twin Hills Country Club, before he enrolled at Springfield College. He played one year of intercollegiate golf, establishing himself as the fourth best player on the team, before a disturbing incident in his dorm room in 1995.
According to the alleged victim, a woman who was dating Walsh's roommate, Walsh was so miffed that she and his roommate might spend time on his bed while he was away that he booby-trapped his sheets with a stainless steel, six-pronged blender blade.
The woman, whose account was corroborated by Walsh's former roommate, said she vividly recalls being startled and slightly injured when she sat on the knife-sharp object. She said the episode forever changed her view of Walsh, whom she had known since high school and Walsh's roommate had considered his best friend since childhood.
The campus police and dean of students were alerted, and though no charges were filed, Walsh soon was dismissed from the golf team.
"It was a very malicious act," the woman said. "The fact that someone you considered a friend would do something that could possibly harm you like that is very creepy."
KEEP in MIND:
1. We have admitted to taping defensive signals in the past for future use.
2. Shawne Merriman (a Roider) accused the Seahawks of pumping noise into the stadium.
3. Former Coach Jimmy Johnson has admitted stealing defensive signals, and said it was part of the game.
4. Everyone in the stadium can visually watch defensive signals and mark down or tape them from elsewhere.
5. The Patriots never hid anything, and Matt Walsh doesn't even have a confidentiality agreement.
6. There is no Rams "walk-through" tape IMO, and if there is, this crazy fuck worked alone.
7. Even if he reaches an agreement with the NFL, he will get PWNT in legal courts for stealing these tapes, AND he was previously caught recording Scott Pioli with audio tapes.
8. The Dolphins stole OUR offensive calls and audible via audio recordings a year ago, and nobody seems to care.
Another thing that gives me some sense of assurance:
"Goodell immediately deployed investigators, their focus largely on Walsh. The commissioner previously had warned the Patriots that if Belichick or team officials lied about the extent of their videotaping practices when they were initially questioned, he would suspend Belichick for a year and impose similarly severe penalties on the team."
I know it is easy to hate on the LOVABLE Patriots, and follow ESPN and New York Times SEXY little story, but the truth is out there. I wish somebody would actually try to find it.
They media is too busy becoming tabloid journalists, and never actually teaching people what the games are all about. I can rarely sit down and discuss the intricacies of the cover two, 3-4 defenses, or pulling the guard for the swing route to your halfback with even the most legit football fans... That is because ESPN is too busy feeding you shit like "Who's doing better, Kobe or Lebron?". I dream of a network where sports are discussed intelligently. I wish it were more than this. I want to see a place where they aren't trying to sell sports, they are trying to teach them and seek the truth...
For more on this type of thing, and other up to date NFL news, I have to agree with Mike Florio on many issues:
http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm