Allow me to talk about the Patriots for a second…

So when I sold my soul to writing about my first love– NY sports– I also agreed to refrain from writing about my favorite football team… unless, of course, they were playing in the Super Bowl or involved in any other kind of story, like oh, I don’t know, something like Spygate, perhaps, that was eminently newsworthy. Well this, my friends, is one of those instances:

After brokering a deal to protect himself, former New England Patriots employee Matt Walsh has finally turned over his evidence in the videotaping controversy.

“Mr. Walsh has never claimed to have a tape of the walk-through,” said Walsh’s lawyer Michael Levy, according to the Times. “Mr. Walsh has never been the source of any of the media speculation about such a tape. Mr. Walsh was not the source for the Feb. 2 Boston Herald article.”

I’ve said this before during our blog’s nascent stages, and I’ll say it again: I’m not ready to call what the Patriots’ did “cheating” simply because every other team in the league is/has been stealing their opponents’ signals for years now (maybe now they’ve stopped for fear of getting fined and/or losing draft picks) and the Pats were just unfortunate enough to piss off a former employee (Eric Mangini) and got squealed on. Don’t believe me? Just read here and you’ll see what I mean. Now just remember, I didn’t say what they did wasn’t illegal, I just said you can’t really call it cheating if everyone is else is doing it in a league-sanctioned way. A lot of people want to equate illegality with cheating, but the two are mutually exclusive, no matter what some self-righteous pundit tells you.

Anyways, that’s besides the point. The main thing I’m wondering about here is what is going to happen to John Tomase now that it’s blatantly obvious he dreamed up the whole “the Pats taped walk-throughs to win championships” thing in order to make a career for himself. I mean think about it, isn’t what he did a million times worse than what Belichick and Co. did? At least the Pats were trying to win football games and bring joy to their legions of fans around the globe. But this guy was just looking out for #1. He’s a no-name columnist working for a major newspaper– which when you think about it, just speaks to what a joke he is if he’s writing for publication in the U.S.’s sixth largest market and no one knows who the f@#k he is– and he thought he’d make up some ridiculous story that pretty much everyone would buy into because Bill Belichick is obviously more evil than Osama Bin Laden, and at the end of the day he’d land some gig on Around the Horn, or wherever else newspapers send their worst writers to waste time so they can’t produce even more crappy articles, and live happily every after. But sadly, for John Tomase, that day will never come because he was exposed for the fraud that he is. And while America will tolerate sh*tty journalism, the one thing they won’t put up with is a liar. So enjoy your five minutes of fame, John Tomase, and good luck finding a new job.