Contents of Spygate Tapes: Cheating + Cheerleader Butts

In a terrific interview entitled "Jay Glazer Owns the NFL," Deadspin's AJ Daulerio finds out how FOX reporter Glazer gets the NFL scoops. Lots of great stuff in the interview, but perhaps the best is Glazer talking about the Spygate videos. He shows them at home to his buddies because he says they are hilarious:

JG: Because it's not just football...it's classic. The tapes go back and forth between... Well, the first part of the tape, the guy recording it , all he's focusing in on are the butts of the Jet City Dancers. He's going from chick, to chick, to chick, and then you see, like, Tom Brady step in and then he'll [the dude taping it] hit the coaches a little bit, but when there's a break? He goes into the stands and then focuses on T and A. It is classsssic. It is like Spygate meets "Girls Gone Wild."

And that's what's on the tapes that everyone's getting upset about? Does that damage the credibility of those tapes at all?

JG: Oh, no, no, no,no - because the rest of it, is damaging. Because they go the coaches, to the down and distance, back up to the coaches, back to the down and distance - it couldn't be anymore clear. They focus in on three guys the entire time, it is soooo brazen it's incredible.

I could see why NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell destroyed the NFL's copies of the Patriot tapes after Glazer was able to obtain leaked tapes. It's embarrassing enough to receive cheat tapes from your repeat Super Bowl champion without the added bonus of minor video perversion. Obviously, I don't have the Spygate tapes, so the YouTube above is just of the Jets cheerleaders.

Photos: NFL Cheerleaders

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-25-2008 @ 1:22PM

bet the super bowl said...

The Jets have cheerleaders? who knew.

4-26-2008 @ 1:28AM

Stuck on Rt 1 said...

So thats what they were doing. I thought they had stuff that can help a team win a game. High school teams do that kind of stuff.

4-27-2008 @ 9:38AM

kmacalp said...

Here we go again. Another case of the media sensationalizing a story to pump up ratings and readership. What the Patriots actually got caught and punished for amounts to filming from the wrong spot. I guess that's not exciting enough for the media, so they had to add some spice to it.

Even though Ray Anderson mentions coaching signals in his memo, the actual rule (from page 105 of The Game Operations Maunal) never prohibits recording signals. It only prohibits recording from three specific locations. The Patriots recorded from one of those locations. Belichick said he interpreted The Game Operations rule the way the league interprets Article IX of The Constitution and By-Laws. Article IX bans any use of of any electronic equipment other than polaroids or field phones which could help a team during a game. The league interprets this to mean that teams can tape games, they just can't watch the film during the game. This interpretation allows teams to make the game film which is studied by every team in the league. Belichick applied the same logic to sideline filming, but Goodell disagreed and issued a severe punishment.

Claiming a team violated a non-existent rule against taping coaches makes for a more exciting story than one about a team violating a camera placement technicaliy.