omg omg omg 5 more days 5 more days 5 more days

I'm making a banging lasagna for the superbowl party, I can't wait to eat eat eat and scream scream scream in between drinking drinking drinking!

On another note, I was in NY this past weekend and god forbid if you wear a Pat's hat or are a Boston fan I see people with Yankees gear on EVERYWHERE in New England and we don't give them shit. Get over yourselves New York!!!!!

Super Bowl XLII Day Three Media Day

This is the big day that you hear so much about because of a circus-like atmosphere and questions like the one to Redskins quarterback Doug Williams, "So, how long have you been a black quarterback."

The atmosphere at the stadium did not disappoint. There was one host of a Latin TV show decked out in a wedding dress -- only the wedding dress was a miniskirt and she was wearing garters. She proposed to Tom Brady. He said, smiling he was sorry but he already had some Mrs. Brady's.

There was one host from I think TV Azteca who was wearing painted-on jeans and a pink, plunging half shirt. There also was a woman wearing a Miss Nevada sash across her chest, and she too was wearing a half shirt. They both were able to pull it off (the look, not the shirt.) There also was a guy dressed like a genie, with clouds or smoke or something on his gold lame cape.

Outside the stadium is like Ringling Bros. There is a huge Ferris Wheel, inflated footballs twice the size of cars, stages, show, everything set up and ready for Sunday.

Players came into the stadium carrying video cameras, the players taking pictures of the photographers taking pictures of them. Six players were on risers being interviewed, six more players, coaches and administrators were at various spots in the stands and everybody else just stood around.
[Edited 1/29/08 15:00pm]

Why doesn’t everyone hate the Patriots?

Shouldn’t America despise the New England Patriots by now?

Most other franchises that have been to a league title game four times in seven seasons have gotten on our nerves sooner than this.

Over the years, a succession of Yankees, Cowboys, Celtics, Bulls, etc., have grown tiresome with their talks of dynasties, three-peats and other self-proclaimed measures of greatness.

OK, you did your thing … now shove over and give somebody else a chance.

Some of them haven’t even been as openly objectionable as the Patriots, who have been caught cheating, who bring in guys who have been headaches elsewhere, who have a head coach who is disagreeably colorless, who may play dirty, who have a pretty-boy quarterback guilty of outrageously conspicuous selection of girlfriends …

… and they win.

But a recent poll of the nation’s fans showed they’re about 50-50 on who they’d prefer win Super Bowl XLII, the Patriots or the New York Giants.

What has exempted the Patriots from the backlash?

One of the more obvious factors is that no one on the roster dares toss out a term such as “dynasty.”

Instead, here’s what you get:

“I’m 30 years old and in the eighth year of my career,” quarterback Tom Brady said. “I don’t really think this is the time to evaluate your place in history. We’re all still building our résumés, we are still trying to achieve as much as we can … your focus should be on the game.”

Brady easily could be a lightning rod for resentment. He was pictured all over America last week, showing up at his girlfriend’s house wearing a walking cast on a sprained ankle.

Dallas’ Tony Romo goes to Mexico during an off week with Jessica Simpson and he’s widely criticized, but Brady is seen limping toward his supermodel two weeks before the Super Bowl and he gets a lot of press, but hardly any derision.

Maybe here’s why: In the picture, he’s carrying a dozen white roses. Every man in the country knows the translation. A dozen white roses means: “Oh, honey, I really screwed up. I’m sooooo sorry. I really didn’t mean to (fill in the indiscretion).”

Surely, Brady was limping over there to get out of the doghouse. Somehow, this guy has us feeling sorry for him. Poor dude, yeah, havin’ to go the white-roses route, that’s tough.

Coach Bill Belichick smiled at least once during his one-hour session Tuesday. I saw it. And his face did NOT crack.

The well-documented “Spygate” episode at the start of this season that led to the Patriots surrendering a draft pick and being fined by the league couldn’t have done much for Belichick’s image. But it doesn’t seem like he puts off fans like a Barry Switzer or Steve Spurrier.

One theory holds that Patriots owner Robert Kraft is an agreeable sort who puts a positive face on the whole franchise.

Distaste for the Yankees and Cowboys, for instance, can be easily linked to respective owners George Steinbrenner and Jerry Jones.

The players, too, mostly keep their mouths shut.

Asked about the team’s attitude, center Dan Koppen said there’s not much tolerance for me-first guys.

“We’ve got great leaders in the locker room,” Koppen said. “And the coaches do a great job of telling us how it is, and not to worry about talking, or about the future or anything else … only how we can get better as a team (each) week.”

Linebacker Tedy Bruschi said newcomers undergo nothing short of an indoctrination.

“When we come to work, the first thing you do is check your ego at the door,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what you’ve done before. You try to get that message across to the young guys, and to the veterans you sign. This is how it is.”

Not any Patriots representatives unleashed even a hint of an inflammatory comment Tuesday.

Belichick was hardly a barrel of laughs, but that’s not his job.

Brady, thankfully, rejected a marriage proposal from a showy bimbette in a wedding dress. Randy Moss, Richard Seymour, Rodney Harrison … all were articulate gentlemen.

Again, the Patriots gave America little reason to object.

“Really, I think we’ve mostly got a bunch of good guys,” Koppen said of the Patriots’ image. “We handle ourselves properly and deal with the media pretty well. Hopefully, the fans and the public respect that in us.”

Apparently, it’s working.

Pats by 4

Super Bowl XLII Day Four

This morning media sessions were at the team's respective hotels. More of the same questions, for most, not as

maniacal a scene as Media Day at the stadium. The players deserve a lot of credit for having to answer the

same things over and over and over again throughout the week. Downtown Phoenix, dead on Sunday and Monday, is

starting to liven up as more and more people arrive in town for the weekend's festivities and the game.

Giants 31-20.

Patriots 34 | New York 21

Pats 24-17

I think the Giants are well more prepared than many Pats fans think they are. It's going to be a close game, but I gotta go with my boys.

If they win the parade will be Tuesday, and I will have lots of pictures on Wednesday I haven't missed one yet, and I don't ever intend to! Gisele better not be on that duck boat

In case you missed all season

july said:

Or if Tom Brady has another bad game.

Patriots 27 | New York 31

Chef Mario Batali

Giants 27, Patriots 24

"The Giants are looking unstoppable after 10 road wins in a row. Eli has never played better, and the offensive line beat the hell out of the Pack in the frozen waste land of Lambeau. Now watch the Giants warm up in the Arizona sun against the tired and angry Pats."

Jared Fogle of Subway

Giants 31, Patriots 24

"My man Strahan is going to be the difference maker."

Charles Barkley

Giants 31, Patriots 28

"The Giants are on a roll and the Pats haven't played well in about six week."

Reggie Miller

Giants 28, Patriots 24

"Why? Because Eli is a Manning. It's in his genes."



Brooklyn Decker

Giants 31, Patriots 28

"Let's not be so quick to underestimate the hot-right-now Giants. I'm excited to see another Manning in the big game, and the Patriots have the perfect season on the line. The Giants have nothing to lose-- especially if Eli plays like a rockstar."



Julie Henderson

Giants 21, Patriots 17

"I'm going with the Giants because they are the underdog and they have a lot of heart. Its been a long time coming for them and think they're going to do it."

The Patriots Are Baffled by Burress’s Crystal Ball

New England quarterback Tom Brady seemed perplexed Wednesday by Plaxico Burress’s prediction that the Giants would beat the Patriots, 23-17, in Sunday’s Super Bowl.

But it was not Burress’s prediction of a Giants’ victory that surprised Brady. It was the predicted score that baffled him.

The Patriots defeated the Giants, 38-35, in the regular-season finale Dec. 30 at Giants Stadium.

“Only going to score 17 points?” Brady said. “Is Plax playing defense?”

He added: “I wish he’d said like 45-42 or something like that. At least he’d give us a little more credit for scoring a few points.”

Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss also questioned Burress’s prediction.

“He’s entitled to say anything, but the only thing about a prediction is that you have got to make it happen,” Moss said. “I think the pressure is more on them now since they’ve guaranteed this victory.”

Reporters looking to follow up with Burress on Wednesday, were left waiting ... and waiting.

In the middle of a hotel ballroom in Chandler, Ariz., an empty table was surrounded by reporters and cameras, frozen by an unexpected wait. The crowd at the table waited for more than 30 minutes. The session was scheduled to last 45 minutes, and time was running out.

Finally, Burress entered the ballroom. He sat in a chair at the table assigned to him, and cameras and microphones and tape recorders pressed close.

Had Burress skipped the session, where attendance is mandatory under league guidelines, he would have been subject to fines, probably in the tens of thousands of dollars. But he answered questions for about 15 minutes, until all of his teammates stood and left, then continued for another 15 minutes or so.

Many of the questions he was asked were about his confidence in his team’s chances.

“When we step on the field, we intend to win,” he said. “That’s why you play. You don’t play to go out and say, ‘O.K., I played good enough and we lost.’ I don’t know of anybody who thinks like that as a player. When you step on the field, you’re supposed to be confident enough to say, ‘Hey, we want to win this football game.’ That’s just the bottom line of any athlete. We want to win.”

Patriots, Giants trading shots Teams renew accusations of dirty tactics

New England defensive tackle Vince Wilfork admits he has made some mistakes -- $37,500 worth of them, in fact -- during the Patriots' unbeaten season. But he regrets only one.

He said he shouldn't have stuck his finger in the face mask of New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs when the teams met in their Dec. 29 regular-season finale.

"What I did to Brandon Jacobs was uncalled for," Wilfork said during Super Bowl XLII media day. "That was a stupid mistake by me. I'm a man. I own up to my mistakes, and that was one of them."

Jacobs' response? "I got one thing to say to that: Don't worry about it, Vince. We're all players, baby."

In other words, see you Sunday.

With the Super Bowl looming in three days, the tension that started between the Patriots and Giants in December hasn't cooled.

After Wilfork's second-quarter poke in New England's 38-35 win, Patriots safety Rodney Harrison stirred emotions by saying the Giants "come at you and try to take you out."

The teams have traded shots since.

Reminded of Harrison's comments, Giants cornerback Sam Madison had to laugh at the irony.

Harrison, 35, is considered the NFL's all-time leader with more than $300,000 in fines for illegal hits. He also was called for two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in the fourth quarter of New England's 31-20 playoff win against Jacksonville.

"I think he has the most fines and most money spent on dirty plays," said Madison, a former Dolphin, familiar with Harrison's aggressive style from their twice-yearly AFC East battles. "It's kind of funny coming from him."

The Patriots felt the same way last week when Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora accused Patriots Pro Bowl left tackle Matt Light of dirty tactics on HBO's "Inside the NFL."

"Anybody who knows him or has been around him would never accuse him of that," Patriots Pro Bowl defensive lineman Richard Seymour said Tuesday of Light. "He's not like that. He's a family man. The people around him know that."

Then again, Seymour has had to face his own share of criticism. San Diego center Nick Hardwick called Seymour "a dirty, cheap, little pompous (expletive)" after the Patriots' 21-12 win in the AFC Championship Game.

"We know anything anyone can say about us is going to get magnified and blown out of proportion," Seymour said. "We're confident in who we are."

But heading into Sunday's game, the 18-0 Patriots lead the league in just about everything, including player fines.

Wilfork has been hit four times this season by the NFL, with Harrison and linebacker Mike Vrabel drawing one fine each.

"Football is a tough, dirty, physical sport," Harrison said, who was fined $5,000 for taunting Baltimore coach Brian Billick after an interception in Week 13. "That's what we signed up for."

Still, some Giants see the Patriots in kinder, gentler terms. New York linebacker Kawika Mitchell sprained his left knee in the season finale, but will play Sunday. He said the injury would have been worse had New England fullback Heath Evans not rescued him from a pileup.

"People were falling down on my legs and he was telling me to watch my legs and pulled me out of the pile," Mitchell recalled. "It was just great sportsmanship."

Evans said he sees a lot of that from his misunderstood teammates.

"You're going to have late hits because your aggression and emotions are running at such a high level," Evans said. "This is a class act team."

Giants Make Statements of Fashion and Confidence

Most of the Giants wore their white jerseys with big, red numerals Thursday morning when they met with the news media for the final time before Super Bowl XLII.

But defensive end Osi Umenyiora wore a new, white T-shirt that displayed the Giants’ slogan for this season: “Talk is cheap. Play the game.” The words were in the team’s colors of red and blue with a Super Bowl logo above them and a “NY” logo below.

“This is my motto from here on out,” Umenyiora said at the media availability at the team’s hotel. He appeared to be the only Giants player wearing the shirt, which was distributed throughout the locker room on Wednesday.

Umenyiora quickly added that he had said too much recently when he labeled Patriots offensive tackle Matt Light a dirty player.

“Matter of fact, I want to apologize to Matt Light for calling him a dirty player,” Umenyiora said. “He’s really not a dirty player at all. I apologize. That’s my fault.”

Umenyiora had a serious expression on his face, but it was hard to tell whether he was being serious or playful. When a reporter said he was from a Boston television station, Umenyiora turned toward the camera.

“I’m sorry, Matt Light,” he said. “I didn’t mean anything by that to cause this whole ruckus. We’ll see each other on Sunday and settle all our differences. Sorry. I love you. Take care, buddy.”

Words — some casual or flippant — can take on exaggerated meanings before a game of this magnitude. Such was the case earlier in the week when Giants receiver Plaxico Burress answered a question by saying that he thought the Giants would win the game.

Quotations like that merge with fashion statements and become issues. When all the Giants players wore black clothing on the plane trip to Arizona, a few Patriots players wondered why they would dress as if they were attending a funeral.

Reuben Droughns, a Giants running back who was one of the few players not wearing his jersey Thursday, wore a brown designer shirt with a dragon’s head on it. He held his uniform in his hands.

“I better put this jersey on,” he said, before defending Burress.

“I agree with Plax,” Droughns said. “We’re not going to go out there and say we’re going to lose. We’re here to win.”

Said linebacker Kawika Mitchell, who was wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt: “I’ve been wearing dark clothing all week. I’ll brighten up on Sunday. I’ll have my whites on.”

Among the Giants who were wearing their jerseys was Michael Strahan, the veteran defensive end who is a member of the team’s leadership council and one of its most frequently quoted players. He said the new editions of the T-shirt were collectors’ items because of the Super Bowl logo.

“Everybody has one,” he said of the players. “They were free, so I asked for three of them. Mine are in my locker.”

Super Bowl XLII Day Five

This was the final day of player media, Tom Coughlin and Bill Belicheck meet media tomorrow. The 8 am press There were far fewer members of the media at the Patriots 8 o clock news conference than at New York's 10 o clock.

All the players at this point are ready to play the game. They seem weary of answering the same questions over and over, tired of preparing for what is going on two weeks, and you get the sense that they wish it would go straight to Sunday.

July is HYPED. Didn't realize so many people were picking the Giants. Maybe they're just going by who they want to win. I wish I didn't have to work the Monday after. That lasagna sounds good, Carrie. It's gonna be finger foods & cake for us.

july said:

Jay Wilkerson

Patriots 42, Giants 14

Let's face it, the Patriots aren't going to be stopped by a team that has Jerry's support. They are a much better team having already beaten the Giants.
[Edited 1/31/08 21:04pm]

Hot air balloons all over the stadium security is fort knox styleeeee around here.

Go, GIANTS!!! Beat the Patsies!!!

It won't die Carrie!!!


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Senator wants to know why NFL destroyed Patriots spy tapes

ESPN.com news services

Updated: February 1, 2008, 12:56 PM ET

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Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) wanted to hear the NFL's explanation for the purging of evidence in the infamous "Spygate" case involving the New England Patriots. He wrote commissioner Roger Goodell on Nov. 15. He got no response.

Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote Goodell again more than a month later, after getting no acknowledgment to the initial communication.

Two days before the Super Bowl, there is plenty of response.

In a phone interview Thursday with The New York Times, Specter said the committee at some point will call on Goodell to discuss why the league destroyed the tapes that revealed the Patriots had been spying on the competition.

"That requires an explanation," Specter told The Times. "The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It's analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes, or any time you have records destroyed."

An NFL spokesman told The Times that Specter's letters did not reach the league until late last week, and there was no mention of the letters on the occasions the two parties had communicated on other issues. Specter said his office had been told by the NFL that there would be no response until after Super Bowl XLII.

Spygate came to the forefront in September, when New York Jets security officials discovered a Patriots video assistant recording the Jets' defensive signals during the Sept. 9 game at Giants Stadium. The videocamera and tape were confiscated. Goodell also ordered the Patriots to turn over all videotape, notes and files involving taping of opponents' signals.

The Patriots got hit by the most severe penalty in NFL history -- coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000, the team was fined $250,000 and also will lose a first-round pick in the draft in April.

Subsequently, the league said it had destroyed the tapes after looking at them. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, in a September e-mail to ESPN.com, wrote that the reason for destroying them was "so that our clubs would know they no longer exist and cannot be used by anyone."

Specter, a lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan who still calls sports radio stations on Monday mornings, said he was concerned about the integrity of sports.

"I don't think you have to have a law broken to have a legitimate interest by the Congress on the integrity of the game ... What if there was something on the tapes we might want to be subpoenaed, for example? You can't destroy it. That would be obstruction of justice," Specter said to The Times.

There is no timetable for when the committee would call upon Goodell, who has a previously scheduled news conference Friday morning in Phoenix.

Bill Belichick, at his Friday morning news conference, was asked about Specter and his demand for an NFL explanation on the tapes' demise. "It's a league matter," Belichick said. "I don't know anything about it."

The possibility exists that Patriots employees or other NFL personnel would have to testify before the committee.

"It's premature to say whom we're going to call or when," Specter said. "It starts with the commissioner. He had the tapes, and he made the decision as to what the punishment could be. He made the decision to destroy them."

live4lust said:

Nope and I'm not surprised this was brought up 2 days before the superbowl. They're trying to distract them, and it's not going to work.

Ok so the Pats were spying on that one game. What's the excuse for them winning every game after that? Had they just got caught now then ya, they should be stripped of it. All teams spy, whether it be video tape or someone watching and reporting it to the other team's coordinators. Whatever.

The spread keeps going down...I think it's 10 now. I hope Bill has some moves under his sleeve and we kill them. I'm so sick of all this shit and it comes down to egos and jealousy. Get over it!

Go Pats!!!!!

Goodell may face Congress over Patriots spying case
By GREG BISHOP AND PETE THAMEL
THE NEW YORK TIMES

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to explain why the league destroyed evidence related to spying by the New England Patriots.

In the stretch of 12 days, from Sept. 9 to Sept. 20, the Patriots were caught filming the Jets' defensive signals in violation of NFL rules, ordered to hand over all tapes of illegal surveillance to the league office, fined $750,000 and made to forfeit a first-round draft pick.

Then the NFL announced it had destroyed the evidence.

In a telephone interview Thursday morning, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the ranking member of the committee, said that Goodell would eventually be called before the committee to address two issues: the league's antitrust exemption in relation to its television contract and the destruction of the tapes that revealed spying by the Patriots.

"That requires an explanation," Specter said. "The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It's analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes. Or any time you have records destroyed."

Specter first wrote Goodell about the tapes on Nov. 15. After more than a month passed without a response, Specter wrote to him again.

The league responded to Specter late Thursday afternoon. When Specter was asked if he could envision a future situation in which employees of the Patriots or the league were called to testify before the committee, he said he wanted to take the investigation "one step at a time."

"It could," Specter said. "It's premature to say whom we're going to call or when. It starts with the commissioner."

Senator asks why NFL destroyed tapes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS



With the Super Bowl fast approaching, a senior Republican senator says he wants the NFL to explain why it destroyed evidence of the New England Patriots cheating scandal.

"I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in a Thursday letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the matter could put the league's antitrust exemption at risk.

"Their antitrust exemption has been on my mind for a long time," he said in a Capitol Hill news conference.

The matter may not compare to the CIA's destruction of interrogation tapes, Specter said, but he added, "I do believe that it is a matter of importance. It's not going to displace the stimulus package or the Iraq war, but I think the integrity of football is very important, and I think the National Football League has a special duty to the American people - and further the Congress - because they have an antitrust exemption."

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said he didn't know anything about it during a Friday news conference.

"It's a league matter," said Belichick, whose Patriots play Sunday in the Super Bowl against the New York Giants.

Goodell said he didn't think Spygate had tainted the Patriots' accomplishments.

"What they did this season was done within the rules, on a level playing field," Goodell said. "There are very good explanations why I destroyed the tapes, or had them destroyed by our staff."

Locking up the evidence proved not to be an option.

"We thought we had locked it up, and it got out five days later," he said. "That was one of my concerns."

The New York Times first reported on Specter's letter.

NFL security confiscated a video camera and tape from a Patriots employee during New England's 38-14 victory over the New York Jets. The employee was accused of aiming his camera at the Jets' defensive coaches as they signaled to players on the field.

Goodell fined Belichick $500,000, the maximum amount, and docked the team $250,000 and a first-round draft pick. It was the biggest fine ever for a coach and the first time in NFL history a first-round draft pick has been confiscated as a penalty.

After its investigation, the NFL said it destroyed all materials it received from the Patriots.

In a Jan. 31 letter to Specter which the senator released Friday, Goodell said the tapes and notes on the investigation were destroyed to ensure that the Patriots "would not secure any possible competitive advantage as a result of the misconduct."

Specter said the explanation "absolutely makes no sense at all," and blasted the commissioner for failing to respond to his inquiries on the matter for more than two months. Goodell said in his letter that he just became aware of Specter's questions Thursday.

"There's a credibility issue here," Specter said.

He stopped short of charging a cover-up, but warned that the judiciary panel may want to probe the matter.

In the meantime, Specter said he might miss Sunday's big game.

"I may play squash while it's on," Specter said.

CarrieLee said:

It didn't just come up. The NFL did the wrong thing and wouldn't deal with it. For months!!!! Go Giants!!!

live4lust said:

Yes but they are making a bigger issue out of it now, right before the superbowl. You're a New York fan, I don't expect you to understand or see any gray areas.

Goodell Defends Handling of Spying Case
The New York Times

Roger Goodell said one of the reasons he destroyed the tapes made by the Patriots was that one was leaked to the media just after the Patriots-Jets game.

N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday he was willing to meet with Senator Arlen Specter, who on Thursday said he would call Goodell before the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain why he destroyed the tapes from the league’s investigation into spying by the New England Patriots.

Specter, who is from Pennsylvania and a long-time Philadelphia Eagles fan, is the ranking Republican on the committee.

Goodell, speaking at his annual state of the league address before Super Bowl XLII, defended his decision to destroy six tapes and pages of notes taken from the Patriots after they were caught videotaping defensive signals of Jets coaches during the first game of the season. Goodell said that one tape was made during the 2007 preseason and the rest were from the 2006 season. He said there was no indication on any of the tapes that they might have benefited the Patriots during their three Super Bowl victories. And he said he believed that the practice was not uncommon around the league. On one tape, Goodell said, an opposing coach was seen waving at the camera, indicating that he knew he was being taped.

But Goodell’s decision to destroy the tapes was driven, in part, by a concern that they could be leaked to the public. In fact, the tape from the Jets game was leaked.

“The reason I destroyed the tapes is they were totally consistent with what the team told me,” Goodell said. “It was the appropriate thing to do and I think it sent a message.

“The actual effectiveness of taping and taking of signals from opponents — it is something done widely in many sports. I think it probably had limited, if any effect, on the outcome of games.

“That doesn’t change my perspective on violating rules and the need to be punished.”

The Patriots’s owner, Robert Kraft, sat in the audience and declined comment when asked about Specter.

But the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Daniel Rooney, was not happy with Specter. Rooney advised Goodell on the videotaping scandal and he endorsed his decision to get rid of the tapes.

When asked what he thought about Specter’s announcement, Rooney replied, “Do you want me to go to jail?”

He then added, “He didn’t get my vote.”