ESPN’s Outside the Lines has a new, detailed report about how the Patriots cheating might have gone deeper than initially realized.
It claims that the Deflategate investigation was a make-up call for commissioner Roger Goodell’s handling of Spygate — that evidence was destroyed in that investigation to potentially protect the NFL:
Now the stakes had gotten much higher: Spygate’s unanswered questions and destroyed evidence had managed to seize the attention of a hard-charging U.S. senator, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who was threatening a congressional investigation. This would put everyone — players, coaches, owners and the commissioner — under oath, a prospect that some in that room at The Breakers believed could threaten the foundation of the NFL.