Watergate meets Arrowhead, allegedly

[.infamous]

On one weekend every year, four highly-significant football games land on the NFL’s center stage. This year, as we were still digesting the epic Saints-49ers finish and a Broncos-Patriots game that never really got started, and while we were anticipating Texans-Ravens and Giants-Packers, the Kansas City Star nearly slipped a potential four-alarm story through the national five hole.

According to Kent Babb of the Star, former Chiefs coach Todd Haley believes that the team bugged rooms at the facility and “tampered with” Haley’s phone. (The team denies the accusation.)

That’s the most compelling takeaway from a lengthy article that details many of the actual and/or perceived idiosyncrasies of the Scott Pioli regime. Much of the information comes from former employees who naturally aren’t happy with the changes that were made, no matter how unreasonable or reasonable or necessary or unnecessary they may have been.

But the most potentially powerful nugget, as culled by Peter King in his latest Monday Morning Quarterback, comes from Haley’s allegation of wiretapping.

Like Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men, it’s unwise to accuse the Nathan Jessups of the world of serious misconduct absent, you know, facts. If Haley believes that the Chiefs are bugging rooms and/or tapping phones, Haley needs to provide chapter-and-verse evidence.

If he’s right, people won’t simply lose their jobs; they’ll possibly land in jail, and for good reason.

The allegation is so inherently troublesome that we think the league should launch an immediate investigation. This is a far bigger issue than brazenly videotaping defensive coaching signals during games, the foundation of the “Spygate” scandal in New England. If Haley is right, the Chiefs have been violating state and federal law in the name of truly spying on their employees.

That’s why accusations of this nature shouldn’t be tossed around recklessly.

We’ll give Haley the benefit of the doubt and assume that he’s not embellishing, exaggerating, and/or fabricating. If the league reacts the same way, the investigation will have already begun.

 

[bosoxlover12]

and yet they still couldnt make the playoffs?!? smh

 

[.infamous]

and yet they still couldnt make the playoffs?!? smh

....?

They werent spying on other people/teams . They were spying on their own employees.

 

[The Young One]

If only Pioli focused on finding us a QB as much as he worries about how much Clark spends on coffee.

 

[kam.]

....?

They werent spying on other people/teams . They were spying on their own employees.

Hes not smart enough to see that, hes been a fan of an organization who has cheated its way to superbowl rings.

 

[kam.]

and yet they still couldnt make the playoffs?!? smh

Not everybody cheats their way to the playoffs.

 

[bosoxlover12]

*reads bosox's sig*

 

[kam.]

*reads bosox's sig*

Its always easy to go back and say where people were wrong.

I couldn't fit in my sig how much shit i've been right about since my time on SI.

Funny you're trying to make somebody out to be clueless though, whenever you're one of the more clueless NFL posters around.

 

[bosoxlover12]

right about what? you've been wrong a whole lot more than right....


Yes, the Patriots cheated. As have the Broncos, as have every team in the NFL. Mangini left NE on bad terms, and ratted us out. But every team did spygate, we just got caught.

 

[kam.]

right about what? you've been wrong a whole lot more than right....


Yes, the Patriots cheated. As have the Broncos, as have every team in the NFL. Mangini left NE on bad terms, and ratted us out. But every team did spygate, we just got caught.

You have proof of this?

You can't say every team does it, because they didn't get caught.

I say shit all the time, and the same pussies on this forum say "Typical Kam shit, no proof" .. So, dumbass.. Where is your proof?

 

[bosoxlover12]

You have proof of this?

You can't say every team does it, because they didn't get caught.

I say shit all the time, and the same pussies on this forum say "Typical Kam shit, no proof" .. So, dumbass.. Where is your proof?

No I dont have proof.

Do you have proof that NE has videotaped after the 2006 season? When we've made the playoffs all but one year?

 

[kam.]

No I dont have proof.

Do you have proof that NE has videotaped after the 2006 season? When we've made the playoffs all but one year?

No, and IDC personally.

Patriots are cheaters and their SB titles shouldn't count.

 

[bosoxlover12]

No, and IDC personally.

Patriots are cheaters and their SB titles shouldn't count.

Keep on trolling bro... its okay

 

[kam.]

Keep on trolling bro... its okay

Not even trolling.

 

[Mooche]

Hes not smart enough to see that, hes been a fan of an organization who has cheated its way to superbowl rings.

+1

This is just a classic story.

 

[Falcons11497]

Hes not smart enough to see that, hes been a fan of an organization who has cheated its way to superbowl rings.

lmao win

 

[TTN2810]

Every team does the Spygate shit. Didn't the Bills or some other team get caught a year or two ago? But because they weren't Tom Brady and the Pats no one cared lol. Former players have said their teams had done it. It's a known fact man.